Roblox Studio AHK Tutorial
Whats is AHK?
Auto hot key or AHK is a tool that can really boost your development experience with Roblox Studio.
AHK scripts started out pretty simple and have since expanded alot. They still can be broken down into basic components and today we will be going over input, output, and typing. We will also talk about how it can be used in Roblox Studio
How does AHK help the development experience in Roblox Studio?
AHK’s main feature is giving you the ability to type a long string of words with a couple buttons. This can be useful for things that are tedious to do, such as wait for child. I made a set of tools for AHK in cool-creations that are built for Roblox Studio.
The basic structure of a AHK script
the first part of a AHK script is a command, or a hotkey to trigger the script. If you wanted something like ctrl or alt then you use specially defined character to tell AHK it’s a special key. The basic ones are
^ = ctrl and ! = alt
the second part is the stuff you want to execute after that hotkey is triggered.
the last part is return. This tells AHK you’re done with that script. If you forget then hope your pc doesn’t explode.
How to make a AHK script
this is the juicy part. To create a AHK script, after you’ve installed AHK, right click on your desktop and go to new then “AutoHotKey script”.
The first line of a basic AHK script is the hotkey as said above.
this is defined by the combination you want then two commas.
Example: ^!g:: that will fire when ctrl+alt+g is pressed
Next lets make the keyboard say “Hello, world!”. The basic way to the keyboard send a sequence is Send, Hello, world!. AHK doesn’t require quotes but instead just makes the keyboard say anything after the ", "
Now lets make the AHK program get input and make the keyboard say it
^!h::
InputBox, name, What's your name?, What's your name?
Send, Hello %name%!
return
This script gets the user’s name with a InputBox and assigns the input to a variable named “name”. Then it makes the keyboard type Hello and their name.
The two other parameters we passed for InputBox control the window name and the window text respectively.
How to run a AHK script
when you create a AHK script and want to test out your creation you must first save and double click the file, if there is already a second one running or you’re updating it then it will put a box on your screen. Just click yes.
links
https://www.autohotkey.com/ download the program
File on MEGA my roblox studio AHK essentials