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Show HN: I made an UI for AutoHotkey using Python

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This is my free and open-source project that work with taking input from user and made AutoHotkey script from it. With integration of AutoHotkey Interception to make script able to remap only on specific devices.

Can be useful for someone who want to use AutoHotkey, but don't know how to code or just lazy to code or simply someone who don't know AutoHotkey but interested in it's feature and want to use this project as a whole.

This is not official tool from AutoHotkey but my standalone project.

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Pretty cool project. I made something like this years ago, but didn’t carry the vision quite as far, and mine was all native AHK.

I had written scripts at work that were useful and wanted to share. To lower the learning curve I made a GUI, allowed for user defined shortcuts in the GUI, setting their path to various integrated apps, and a quick toggle for help that would show all their defined hotkeys and what they did. I made an attempt to allow users to dynamically load additional scripts, but it only worked if running AHK and a script file, and I wanted to distribute it to the team as an exe, which broke the dynamic loading of a secondary file, but most people weren’t going to do that anyway.

I’ve since moved to macOS at work, and miss my old AHK scripts. It was so handy. I found a couple ways I might be able to replicate some of it without insane effort, but my work is less repetitive than it used to be, so it doesn’t seem as worth it.

We have the same vision. I use AHK myself and often find people who want to use it, but can't code it. So i made this to simplify things for me or to others. I use AHK for various occasion that need different script. With this, i don't need to code every time i want to make a new one.

It's unfortunate that AHK only works for Windows. I guess this is also one of it's downside. I heard it's complicated to make AHK work on another OS. If i am not mistaken, there is someone who make AHK for Linux. But i don't know how it goes now.

I am sorry, looks like the link just go to 'Other Utilities & Resources'. Here is the link to the post: https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=13433...

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