AutoIt 3.3.0.0

AutoIt 3.3.0.0 is considered as a useful and easy to use tool for simulating key presses, mouse movements and window commands which will automate any windows based task. AutoIt was primarily designed to assist in automatically installing software that cannot be automatically installed by other means.

This is most useful during a PC rollout where thousands of client machines need to be automatically installed. However, AutoIt can also be used as a general purpose scripting language.

Major Features:

1. Easy to learn BASIC-like syntax
2. Simulate keystrokes and mouse movements
3. Manipulate windows and processes
4. Interact with all standard windows controls
5. Scripts can be compiled into standalone executables
6. Create Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)
7. COM support
8. Regular expressions
9. Directly call external DLL and Windows API functions
10. Scriptable RunAs functions
11. Detailed helpfile and large community-based support forums
12. Compatible with Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT4 / 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008
13. Unicode and x64 support
14. Digitally signed for peace of mind
15. Works with Windows Vista's User Account Control (UAC)

Enhancements:

• Windows 9x and Windows NT 4.0 Operating System support has been removed.
• Added: New flag for StringSplit() to not return the count in element 0.
• Added #328: StringToASCIIArray(), StringFromASCIIArray() functions.
• Added: New flag to Run()/RunAs() to fix issue 415 (Adds new Constants.au3 constant: $STDIO_INHERIT_PARENT).
• Added: New flag to all Run functions for better CUI compatibility (Adds new Constants.au3 constant: $RUN_CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE).
• Added #481: 11 pixel margin around the text in SplashTextOn() (Meets Vista UI guidelines).
• Added #468: Added MSec macro for obtaining the current milliseconds for the current second.
• Added #277: CPUArch macro to return the capability of the processor.
• Added #454: FO_UTF8 allowing FileOpen() in Read mode for reading UTF8 files without BOM.
• Added: $FO_UTF16_LE, FO_UTF16_BE allowing FileOpen() in Read mode for reading UTF16 files without BOM.
• Added #407: Documented that For...In loops are read-only.
• Added #645: IniDelete() now supports the Default keyword for the 3rd parameter.
• Fixed: Send() was incorrectly inserting a leading zero when using the {ASC 0xNNNN} format.
• Fixed #305: GUICtrlSetFont() for Combo causing highlight.
• Fixed #318: GUICtrlSetTip() on TreeViewItem must return 0.
• Fixed #339: GUICtrlDelete() crashes.
• Fixed #345: OSVersion for Windows 2008.
• Fixed #366: AutoIt crash on bad syntax.
• Fixed #380: OSVersion for Windows XP 64-bit Edition.
• Fixed #346: FileOpenDialog()/FileSaveDialog() filter length limit.
• Fixed #387: DllClose() and DllCallbackFree() crashing when an invalid handle used.
• Fixed #449: SystemDir does not return SysWOW64 under X64 in 32-bit mode.
• Fixed #440: Fatal error when script ends with EOF (0x1A).
• Fixed #464: Example script for GUICtrlCreateAvi() did not work on Vista.
• Fixed #484: ObjGet() would crash when invalid files were specified.
• Fixed #501: ProcessGetStats() failed for processes running as other users (including SYSTEM).
• Fixed #92: DllStruct data truncated with char[]/wchar[].
• Fixed: GuiCtrlSetState(graphic, GUI_HIDE) does not hide.
• Fixed: GuiCtrlSetResizing(graphic, ) not moving.
• Fixed: GuiCreate(...,Style without caption) does not resize properly.
• Fixed: GuiSetStyle(caption change) does not resize properly.
• Fixed: GuiCtrlSetState($listviewitem) does not return error.
• Fixed #562: Specifying the TITLE property caused all other properties to be lost (Window title matching).
• Fixed #569 TCPRecv() doc example.
• Fixed #589: Some comparison operators did not return a boolean value.
• Fixed #583: Bad formatting of MSEC in documentation.
• Fixed #574: Using 0 for the SendKeyDelay or SendKeyDownDelay removes the respective delay when using Send().
• Fixed #542: Crash with regular expressions.
• Fixed #531: Clarification of some of the remarks for GUICtrlSetGraphic().
• Fixed #539: StringSplit() with flag 2 and no matching delimiters wasn't returning the full string.
• Fixed #601: Tooltip return 0 when title length >99.
• Fixed #608: listView GUICtrlSetBkColor() not redrawn.
• Fixed #628: GuiCtrlRead(ctxmenu, adv) bad return.
• Fixed #640: PCRE does not support L, l, N, U, or u : doc updated
• Fixed #642: Installer now correctly opens the merged helpfile to the history page instead of the AutoIt-only helpfile.
• Fixed #646: Call() now sets specific @error and @extended values when it fails to find a function.
• Fixed #669: Typo in Dec() example.
• Fixed #659: Documented that UNC paths are not supported when using FileSelectFolder().
• Fixed #671: Crash when using $WS_EX_MDICHILD without specifying a valid parent.
• Fixed: Crash when using BinaryToString() with invalid UTF16 input string. BinaryToString() now has new error codes to support diagnosing invalid input.
• Fixed #743: AutoIt Crash when Tray functions are use with invalid ID.
• Fixed #748: AutoIt Crash with DllCall.
• Changed #393: Documented that SoundSetWaveVolume() works differently in Windows Vista.
• Changed: PCRE regular expression engine updated to 7.8.
• Changed: @ProcessorArch changed to OSArch as it was misleading.
• Changed: Size limits removed from RegRead() and RegWrite() (previously 64KB for some registry types).
• Changed: RegRead() and RegWrite() no longer use hex strings for REG_BINARY types - native binary datatypes are enforced.