User Defined Functions

This page is a listing of libraries of user defined functions (UDF). These libraries have been written to allow easy integration into your own scripts and are a very valuable resource for any programmer.

Automation

• Java UDF - Creates an access bridge between your application and a Java application. Allowing you to automate some Java applications.
• SAP - SAP business management automation.
• SAPWizard - SAPWizard.UDF.
• WiFi - Low level control over your wireless LAN
• Active Directory - Extensive library to control and manipulate the Windows active directory. Link to the documentation pages.
• Windows Events - Create your own Windows events.
• Service - Build your own service with AutoIt code.

Browsers

• Internet Explorer - Everything about Internet explorer can be automated with the IE library supplied with a standard AutoIt install.
• Firefox - A little less support for automation than IE, but still very good.
• Opera - The same as above for Opera. Automate the most common tasks in Opera with the Opera UDF.
• Chrome - The same as above for Google Chrome. Automate the most common tasks in Chrome with the Chrome UDF.

Microsoft Office Automation

• Microsoft Office Access - Automation of Access.
• Microsoft Office Excel - A way to automate Office Excel is included with AutoIt. Link to the documentation pages.
• Microsoft Office Excel Charts - Creating charts using Excel.
• Microsoft Office Outlook - Extended Outlook UDF. Link to the documentation pages.
• Microsoft Office Word UDF - A way to automate Office Word is included with AutoIt. Link to the documentation pages.

• ExcelCOM UDF Yet Another -- ExcelCOM UDF

Hardware

• CommAPI - Serial and parallel communication (COM port, RS-232, LPT port) - without installing DLL's (using Windows API calls)
• Serial Port/COM - Serial Port /COM Port UDF.
• Webcam UDF - Webcam UDF made by LIMITER.
• Webcam UDF - Webcam UDF made by ludocus.
• SMARTDRIVE - SMART drive Analysis.
• DirectShow - DirectShow UDF.
• Monitor Configuration - Monitor Configuration UDF.
• Screen Resolution - Screen Resolution Changing UDF
• Device Management - Device Management API
• Mouse_UDF - AutoIt powered mouse events
• Network configuration UDF - Network configuration UDF
• FritzBox - _FB_Tools - manage your FritzBox from Autoit

Information gathering

• Computer information - A general purpose library to get various details about a Windows machine.

Databases and web connections

• SQLite - "SQLite is a library that implements a self-contained, embeddable, zero-configuration SQL database engine"
• XML DOM Wrapper - Supports CRUD operations on XML. Including XSL and XPath.
• MySQL - MySQL relational database management system UDF.
• MySQL - MySQL UDFs (without ODBC).
• DBF - dBase database read and write with DLL.
• EzMySql - EzMySql UDF - Use MySql Databases with autoit.
• MS SQL - MSSQL.au3
• MS SQL - _SQL.au3. ADODB.Connection

Internet protocol suite

• WinHTTP - Enables scripts to access the HTTP protocol for creating GET and POST requests and submitting them with conforming standards, cookies not supported.
• WinInet - Enables scripts to access standard Internet protocols, such as FTP, Gopher and HTTP. Also supports creating GET and POST requests and submitting them with conforming standards, cookies supported.
• POP3 - POP3 library for retrieving email messages. Not compatible with Gmail because it uses SSL.
• POP3 SSL - A POP3 library that's compatible with Gmail. It uses an external executable that must be supplied with your script.
• IRC - A lightweight library for communicating with IRC servers.
• SFTP - UDF to support SFTP protocol using PSFTP.
• JSON - RFC4627 compliant JSON encode/decode
• JSON - JSMN - A Non-Strict JSON UDF
• JSON - Bridge to Native Windows JSON plus OO extension for AutoIt
• cURL - cURL UDF - a UDF for transferring data with URL syntax
• SNMP UDF - SNMP_UDF for SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c
• SNMP - MIB protocol (Reading toner status from SNMP device with WMI).
• IRC IRC UDF made by Chip
• IRC IRC UDF - Updated Version of Chips' IRC UDF.
• UPnP Protocol - UPnP : Read and Control your devices in side out.
• Prowl - Prowl UDF.

Data compression

• zip - Create ZIP files and unpack ZIP files.
• 7z, zip, gzip, bzip2, tar - More extensive library than the one above. Uses a external DLL that must be provided with the script.
• XZip - UDF for "XStandard XZIP Component".
• ZIP - ZIP.au3 UDF in pure AutoIt.
• UnRAR - UnRAR.au3.
• zLib - zLib (Deflate/Inflate/GZIP) UDF
• ZIP - ZIP STRUCTS UDF (from scratch)
• pZip - PureZIP_L library UDF
• Zip plugin - Zip plugin

Encryption and hash

• MD5,SHA1,CRC32,RC4,BASE64,XXTEA - Several encryption and hash functions.
• AES Rijndael - Very fast AES UDF. Support ECB/CBC/CFB/OFB block cipher mode.
• TrueCrypt - TrueCrypt UDFs.

Media

• Simple DirectMedia Layer UDF - Adds support for joysticks, CDs, 2D graphics, timers. See SDL website for more information.
• FreeImage library - Various operations on images, such as rotate, resize, flip.
• Printer controller - Print text in any font, size and colour at any position on the page, draw lines, curves, elipses, pies in any colour, and print images.
• Printing - Printing from AutoIt.
• RTF_Printer - RTF_Printer.au3 - Printing RichEdit in the background.
• OCR - Tesseract (Screen OCR) UDF.

Sound

• BASS Function Library - Sound and Music via wrappers for Bass, BassEnc, Bass FX, BassSFX, BassAsio and BassCd DLLs
• TTS - Text-to-Speech UDF
• MIDI - MIDI UDF

Graphics and image

• IrrLicht - A 3D graphics engine suitable for creating games.
• au3Irrlicht2 - Another UDF bringing Irrlicht and au3 together. Historically some kind of a follower of the UDF above, technically with a complete different approach.
• Bitmap Library - Bitmap Library.

Players

• VLC UDF - VLC (Media Player) UDF

GUI Additions

• XSkin - A large library that allows skinning of your GUI and to apply custom skins.
• Uskin - A library that allows a user to skin their application GUI using the Windows .MSstyles files.
• Modern tray menu - Allows the creation of modern, fancy GUI and tray menus with icons.
• SetOnEvent - Provides an easy way for an event to call functions with parameters.
• GUIFrame - Divide a GUI into adjustable frames.
• Easy Scrollbars - Easily create scrollable sections in your GUI
• GUICtrlOnChangeRegister - Call a function when an edits content is changed.
• ContextHelp.au3 - Management of context help (original)
• GUIExtender - Expand and contract sections of your GUI. (original)
• ExtMsgBox - A very customisable replacement for MsgBox
• Toast - Small message GUIs which pop out of the Systray
• GUI Panel UDF - Manage child GUIs as panel ctrls

Controls

• Graph control UDF - Easily create and show bar chart and line charts.
• GUICtrlCreateFinder - Allows you to create a window finder control like the one seen in AutoIt Window Info.
• GUIPager - Create and control native pager controls.
• Hotkey input control - Hotkeys Input Control UDF Library (Non-native)
• GUIHotkey - UDF for using native hotkey controls.
• Marquees - Make tickertape info bars
• Colorpicker - Create a button for the user to select a color.
• Syslink - Provides a convenient way to embed hypertext links in a window
• Progressbar with GDIplus - You even can use full textured images

Maths

• Primes UDF - Many functions dealing with prime number generation and calculations.
• Big number UDF - Make calculations with extremely large numbers that AutoIt normally is not able to support.
• Number base conversion - From, to and between positive bases less than 63 (decimals supported)
• Decimal To fraction - Converts any decimal number to a fraction. Example: 1.2 to 6/5
• Trigonometry math functions - _ATan2(), _Cosh(), _Frexp(), _Hypot(), _Ldexp(), _Logb(), _Sinh(), _Tanh()
• Polynomials - Functions for using polynomials.
• NumToWord - Convert numerals to a human readable string.
• Root function - Working out real roots of numbers.
• Advanced rounding - Support for different measures of accuracy and 8 ways to resolve tie breaks.
• Roman Numerals - integer to roman numerals made by Mat.
• Roman Numerals - Roman Numerals made by czardas.
• Roman Numerals - Roman Numerals made by AZJIO.

Misc

• Hotkey.au3 - Management of Hotkeys UDF, with several advantages over HotkeySet().
• Animated tray icons - Make animated tray icons easily.
• NoFocusLines - Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxes which spoil the look of your GUI
• StringSize - Automatically size controls to fit the text you want to put in them
• Spell Checker - Spell Checker UDF - Hunspell
• TVExplorer - TVExplorer UDF
• BinaryCall - BinaryCall UDF - Write Subroutines In C, Call In AutoIt
• LFN - LFN UDF - overcome MAX_PATH limit of 256 chars
• Clipboard History/Sotrage - UDF to save and restore the entire clipboard contents
• Resources UDF - Resources UDF
• ResourcesEx UDF - ResourcesEx UDF (up to date with the current AutoIt language syntax v3.3.12.0)
• NotifyIcon UDF - NotifyIcon UDF (formerly TrayIconEx) - Create, delete and manage self notify icons

PDF

• PDFCreator - Automation of PDFCreator allows you to create and manipulate PDF files.
• Debenu Quick PDF Library - A collection of functions for Debenu Quick PDF Library.
• MPDF - Create PDF from your application.

Windows

• Firewall - Windows Firewall UDF.
• UAC - User Account Control (UAC) UDF.
• Task Sheduler - Task Scheduler UDF.
• ACL - Set ACL on windows Objects.
• Startup - Create Startup entries in the Startup Folder or Registry
• Local account UDF - Local account UDF
• Windows Services UDF - Windows Services UDF

Security

• VirusTotal - VirusTotal API 2.0 UDF.

Social Media and other Website API

• Twitter - Twitter UDF.
• iTunes - iTunes UDF.
• Yahoo Weather - YWeather UDF - Yahoo Weather API.
• Google Maps - Google Maps UDF.
• Google API - JSON queries for Google API.
• PasteBin - PasteBin (powered by PasteBin).
• PasteBin - Pastebin UDF.