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AutoHotkey Plugin ​

AutoHotkey Plugin is a Macro Deck 2 plugin that uses AutoHotkey to automate tasks.
Supports all things in AutoHotkey.

Getting Started ​

TIP

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INFO

This tutorial assumes that Macro Deck and AutoHotkey is already installed.

Macro Deck side ​

  1. Open Macro Deck
  2. Click Extensions > Online, click AutoHotkey Plugin, and click Install.
  3. If you see "Do you want to configure AutoHotkey Plugin now?", click Yes.
  4. If you installed 1.1 and clicked Express, just press OK (-2.0.0), or enable 1.1 support (3.0.0+).
    If you installed 2.0, enable 2.0 support and press OK (-2.0.0), or just press OK (3.0.0+).
    If you installed 1.1 alongside 2.0, the path of 1.1 should be v1.1* in the install folder of AutoHotkey v2.

Actions ​

ActionDescriptionStatus
Run AHK ScriptRun a AutoHotkey scriptLive
Write and Run AHK ScriptWrite and run a AHK ScriptLive
Window SpyAHK's built-in Window SpyLive

Variables [2.0.0+] ​

Writing scripts within Macro-Deck allows using Variables. Since AHK makes use of { and } we use double {{ and }} to indicate a Variable in AHK WriteScripts (example {{my_variable}}). Example:

MsgBox, It is now {{time}} and the date is {{date}}.

Thanks @Timoses for coding this feature!

AHKPLib (Websocket-based) [3.0.0+] depectated ​

WARNING

This feature is now depectated. This will be replaced by AHKPLibv2 that uses StdOut instead of Websockets to ensure v1 and v2 compatibility.

Using the WriteScript v1.1 action now allows you to make communication to AHK Plugin to create a variable, get variables, update variables, create a notification and more. Example:

#Include AHKPLib.ahk
ExampleApp := new AHKPLib()
MsgBox % ExampleApp.GetVar("date")

Documentation is available on this link.