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    AutoIT Scripting For Beginners
    AutoIT Scripting For Beginners
    AutoIT Scripting For Beginners
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    AutoIT Scripting For Beginners

    By Rajan

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    About this ebook

    AutoIT is one of the best window application automation tool available in the market as an open source. Using AutoIT you can automate any window application by its simple scripting.

    What this book offers...

    This book doesn't make any assumptions about your background programming knowledge. You don’t need any prior knowledge to benefit from this book. You will be guided step by step starting form how to install AutoIT, how to record and playback, where to write the script, how to compile the script, how to make it as executable file, how to identify the window object, how to automate any window application using a logical and systematic approach.
    Complex concepts are broken down into simple steps to ensure that you can easily master the AutoIT scripting even if you have never coded before.

    Examples are carefully chosen to illustrate all concepts. In addition, outputs for all examples are provided immediately so you do not have to wait till you have access to your computer to test the examples.

    What you'll learn:

    •Introduction to AutoIT
    •Record and Play back
    •AutoIT V3 Window Info Tool
    •Scintilla Editor
    •Declaring Variables
    •Operators
    •Selection statements
    •Iteration statements
    •Jump statements
    •Declaring and calling Functions
    •String Functions
    •Windows functions
    •Calculator Automation

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRajan
    Release dateAug 15, 2015
    ISBN9781310947209
    AutoIT Scripting For Beginners
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    Rajan

    Rajan has been working in Corporate firm and has rich knowledge in scripting and automation tools like VBA, selenium and AutoIT. He has keen interest in developing and programming areas. He loves to automate task which is repetitive and time consuming.His hobbies are blogging, writing and reading books. He is passionate in programming languages and develop useful things out of it. He always love to share known information and knowledge with others.

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      AutoIT Scripting For Beginners - Rajan

      AutoIT scripting for Beginners

      By Rajan

      © Copyright 2015

      All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Preface

      AutoIT is a scripting language well suited to beginners. This book is written to help you learn AutoIT in a simple and easy way. If you are an absolute beginner in programming, you’ll find that this book explain complex concepts and terminology in an easy to understand manner with practical illustrations.

      Since AutoIT is one of the best open source tool available in the market, now most of the IT company start using it in QA , networking and maintenance field for automating routine task. So, it will be right time to start learning AutoIT.

      Writing this book has been a challenge and a pleasure. I hope that you find the same challenge and pleasure in learning AutoIT.

      Contents at a Glance

      1) Introduction to AutoIT

      2) Record and Play back

      3) AutoIT V3 Window Info Tool

      4) Scintilla Editor

      5) Declaring Variables

      6) Operators

      7) Selection statements

      8) Iteration statements

      9) Jump statements

      10) Declaring and calling Functions

      11) String Functions

      12) Windows functions

      13) Calculator Automation

      What’s Inside

      1) Introduction to AutoIT

      Why AutoIT?

      How AutoIT works?

      Download and installation of AutoIT

      2) Record and Play back

      How to record and play back?

      3) AutoIT V3 Window Info Tool

      What is the use of identifying properties and objects of windows?

      Finder Tool

      Basic Window Info

      Basic control Info

      Window properties

      Control properties

      Visible Properties

      Hidden text

      Status bar

      Tool bar, mouse and Summary tab

      4) Scintilla Editor

      How to open new SciTE editor?

      Starting a new Script

      Syntax check

      Compilation

      Comments

      1) Single line comments

      2) Multi line comments

      5) Declaring Variables

      Naming convention of variable

      Variable Declaration

      Dim

      Global

      Local

      Constant

      Enum

      Arrays

      Two Dimensional Arrays

      6) Operators

      Mathematical Operators

      Addition Operator (+)

      Subtraction Operator (-)

      Multiplication Operator (*)

      Division Operator (/)

      Exponentiation Operator (^)

      Assignment Operators

      Simple Assignment Operator (=)

      Addition Assignment Operator (+=)

      Subtraction Assignment Operator (-=)

      Multiplication Assignment Operator (*=)

      Division Assignment Operator (/*)

      Concatenation Operators

      Simple Concatenation Operator (&)

      Concatenation Assignment Operator (&=)

      Comparison Operators

      Equivalence Operator

      Not Equal to Operator

      Greater than operator

      Greater than or equal to Operator

      Lesser than operator

      Lesser than or equal to Operator

      Logical Operators

      AND Operator

      OR Operator

      NOT Operator

      Order of precedence

      7) Selection statements

      If..Then statement

      If… Else Statement

      If...ElseIf...Else...EndIf

      Nested If statement

      Select case statements

      Switch Statement

      8) Iteration statements

      For..To..Step…Next

      For..In..Next

      Do…Until

      While..Wend

      9) Jump statements

      ContinueCase

      ContinueCase in Select statement

      ContinueCase in Switch Statement

      Continue Loop

      ContinueLoop in Do..Until Loop

      ContinueLoop in For..Next Loop

      ContineLoop with Level

      ExitLoop

      Exit Loop in For..Next Loop

      Exit Loop with Level

      Exit

      10) Declaring and calling Functions

      Built in functions

      Msgbox function

      Sleep function

      User Defined Functions

      11) String Functions

      StringLower

      StringIsLower

      String Upper

      StringIsUpper

      StringLen

      StringIsDigit

      StringLeft

      StringRight

      StringMid

      StringInStr

      StringReverse

      String Replace

      12) Windows functions

      WinActivate

      WinActive

      WinClose

      WinExists

      WinGetClassList

      WinGetHandle

      WinGetState

      WinGetTitle

      WinKill

      WinMinimizeAll

      WinMinimizeAllUndo

      WinSetState

      WinWait

      WinWaitActive

      Control Click

      13) Calculator Automation

      Task To Perform

      Pre-Requisite

      Properties

      Automation script

      1) Introduction to AutoIT

      AutoIT is an open source automation tool for Windows GUI. It has its own BASIC scripting language for writing scripts, and is typically used in the administration, Quality Assurance, Maintenance, monitoring and system management fields for automating routine tasks. AutoIT can manipulate the simulation of keyboard input, mouse movement and other controls to reliably automate tasks, unlike other programming languages.

      Scripts written in AutoIT can be converted into compressed standalone executable files with the help of the Aut2Exe application, so it almost mimics Java’sWrite Once and Run Anywherebehavior. Once scripts are written and converted into executable files, they can be run on any windows systems that don’t have AutoIT interpreter. This tool comes with a pre-installed SciTe editor for writing the script which has many features including syntax highlighting, syntax folding, auto complete, auto indentation etc.

      Why AutoIT?

      It is available for free in the market.

      Automate all window applications.

      Non programmers can easily learn AutoIT script.

      Online forums for beginners.

      Many inbuilt functions for automation.

      It allow user to build own user defined functions.

      Compatible with all Window OS

      Simulate mouse, keyboard movements.

      Sending user inputs to individual controls in an application.

      Easy to interact with Component Object Modeling (COM) objects.

      Create Stand alone application

      Object oriented approach

      Easy debugging

      QA testing

      How AutoIT works?

      Users are able to interact with components such as textboxes, radio buttons, check boxes, buttons and many other controls in applications with the help of the keyboard, mouse and human eyes. AutoIT interacts with all of these components by simulating the keyboard and mouse events. Instead of human eyes, AutoIT has its own eye called AutoIT window info tool, which helps the programmers identify the properties of each control as they interact with it. After identifying the properties and controls of the window, the user has to write the script in Scite Editor. AutoIT converts the script into executable file or au3.

      Download and installation of AutoIT

      AutoIT is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008/2008 R2, Windows 7 and Windows 8. Below are instructions on how to install AutoIT:

      Step 1

      Navigate to https://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/downloads/ and download the most recent version by clicking Download AutoIT. You can also download AutoIT as a zip package (which doesn’t need installation), but it is recommended that you download the executable file.

      Fig 1.1 AutoIT download page

      Step 2

      Save the downloaded file anywhere in your local drive for installation

      Fig1.2 AutoIT set up file

      Step 3

      Start installing the file and click theNext button

      Fig 1.3 AutoIT installation window 1

      Step 4

      Click on the I agree button

      Fig 1.4 AutoIT installation window 2

      Step 5

      Choose the option most convenient to you and click the Next button.

      Run the script-When you click on the script (.au3 file) it will execute the script

      Edit the script-When you click on the script (.au3 file) it will open the script for editing.

      Fig 1.5 AutoIT installation window 3

      Step 6

      You can check both of the options for reference and click the Next button.

      Fig 1.6 AutoIT installation window 4

      Step 7

      Choose the destination folder for AutoIT’s installation and click the Next button.

      Fig 1.7 AutoIT installation window 5

      Step 8

      Click on the Finish button to complete the installation.

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