Tutorials

There are many tutorials available for AutoIt. This page is an overview of a few known tutorials. More tutorials can possibly be found and will be added to this page in time.

AutoIt beginner

These tutorials describe simple tasks and AutoIt syntax.

• Language tutorial ( cheat sheet )
• Welcome to AutoIt 1-2-3
• Learning to script with AutoIt v3

Autoit-1-2-3

By Valuater, this tutorial is one of the most popular. Some key features are:

• Over 19 Interactive GUI's
• Over 50 Step-by-Step Scripts
• Verbal Instructions
• Complete with Demonstrations and Answers
• Exe Format for New People

This is the second page you will see when running AutoIt 1-2-3. It gives important links to necessary downloads and allows you to run demos that are supplied with the program.

You can download AutoIt 1-2-3 from here, or check out the Forum page.

Learning to script with AutoIt V3

This tutorial has example AU3 files contained in the text, printable exercise question/answer sheet and more. Originally by lxP and updated by BrettF, this is a great starting point for those who have never scripted before. For people who may have done other languages, this will also be a good back to basics tutorial.

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Video

These are almost 20 AutoIt video tutorials by 403forbidden. You can view all the tutorials at the link below. They start at a beginner level and work up from there.

• AutoIt Video Tutorials - Part 1

Set of tutorials by Morthawt aka TutsTeach

• Easy Autoit Scripting Video Tutorials

More complicated AutoIt commands and concepts

• Arrays
• GUIRegisterMsg
• Interrupting a running function
• Variables - using Global, Local, Static and ByRef
• Managing multiple GUIs
• Setting styles
• Moving and resizing pop up GUIs
• Modal MsgBox styles
• Tabs
• Recursion
• Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
• DllCall - Tutorial on DllCall() & DllStructs.
• DllCall - Dll Tutorial (German language).

Tips to make your coding easier

• Adding UDFs to AutoIt and SciTE
• Adding utilities to the SciTE Tools menu
• Use tools like SciTE Jump

Additional Resources

The AutoIt community is itself your best source for information, tutorials and assistance with the language. AutoIt boasts a very large community of both professional and hobbyist coders, all of whom volunteer their time to assist with scripting question. See below for just a few of our different forums:

Forum Home General Support Questions GUI Support Questions Example Scripts