General highlights

Clone this repo and all dependencies with git clone --recursive https://github.com/temoridao/ahk or download latest self-contained snapshot

See Lib folder for useful libraries used by scripts in the root of this repository. The majority of library code is documented and contains ready-to-use examples.

Starter.ahk

Smart launcher for your scripts with ability to compile/combine all of them into single portable Starter.exe by one click!

How to Use:

1. Clone this repo git clone --recursive https://github.com/temoridao/ahk or download latest self-contained snapshot
2. Double click on Starter.ahk — you'll see a message box prompting you for the list of scripts to launch. Press OK and Starter.txt will be opened ready for adding paths to your scripts or even whole directories (they will be scanned for *.ahk files, non-recursively)
3. Add your favorite scripts, save Starter.txt file and launch Starter.ahk again
4. Done!

Optional step: If you compile this script (with Compile Script entry from context menu, or in tray menu), it will embed all scripts you specified in the Starter.txt (marked with ~, see below) into Starter.exe's resources (thanks to new Ahk2Exe compiler directives). Now you have all your scripts in a single portable Starter.exe (which can be copied and launched on another machine or USB stick, etc).

List of Features

• Launch and centrally control the scripts you specified in Starter.txt or pass via command line or drag & drop in explorer (folders supported). Tray icons will be automatically hidden (even after restarting explorer.exe, see ProcessTerminationWatcher.ahk for details)
• Compile Starter.ahk to get Starter.exe with all marked scripts embedded inside. Scripts should be marked for inclusion with ~ symbol at the beginning of the path, as explained in Starter.txt on first launch. Alternatively hold Ctrl key while dropping scripts onto Starter.ahk from windows explorer or pass --compile-package command line parameter
• Individual control of each script available in right click context menu of tray icon
• List of supported command line switches with default values are available in the Config Section (top part of the script). Some of them are disabled by default, such as --elevate, or disabled only for compiled version, such as --show-tray-tip.
• Custom tray icon will be automatically picked up if it located near script and has name of the script plus extension, f.e. Starter.ahk.ico (png, jpg supported). Or you can pass your own path, see CommonUtils.setupTrayIcon() method
• Custom Starter.exe icon can be specified in Config Section with @Ahk2Exe-SetMainIcon directive (remove space between semicolon and @ to enable it). By default, an icon named Starter.exe.ico expected
• If you need compression for your executable, place upx.exe near the Ahk2Exe.exe. Also note that compressed executable will have c (from compressed) letter appended to its name by default, f.e. Starterc.exe
• Starter.ahk supports various command line options. See comments at the top part of the script for brief explanation what they do
• Your custom code can be added at the bottom of auto-execute section or inside any of optional injection file(s) (need to manually create them beforehand) for compiled, non-compiled or both forms of Starter (Starter_injection.ahk is a recommended ready-to-use template for script injection). This is a convenient method of applying common logic for all your scripts at once. For example, add the following code at the bottom of auto-execute section (or paste into one of injection files):

#include <ShellEventsWatcher> ;ShellEventsWatcher.ahk can be found in Lib folder near Starter.ahk

event := ShellEventsWatcher.HSHELL_WINDOWACTIVATED
global g_shellEventsWatcher := new ShellEventsWatcher({(event): ["updateSuspension"]})

updateSuspension(activatedHwnd) {
	for i, pid in g_scriptsPids
		AhkScriptController.setSuspend("ahk_pid" pid, shouldSuspend())
}
shouldSuspend() {
	static cHotkeysSuspendApps := ["mstsc.exe", "TeamViewer.exe"]
	return HasVal(cHotkeysSuspendApps, WinGet("ProcessName", "A")) ;WinGet() here is a function wrapper around `WinGet` command. See 3rdparty\Lib\Functions.ahk
}

This will suspend all controlled scripts whenever Microsoft Remote Desktop or TeamViewer window becomes active and unsuspend them when that window becomes inactive (it is useful to suspend scripts on your local machine if your remote machine also uses AutoHotkey and interferes with your local machine's hotkeys).

Built-in Hotkeys

• Win+Shift+` (my favorite!) — restart any AutoHotkey script (controlled by Starter or not) if its window currently active. If previous check failed, then active window's title analyzed if it contains name of any script currently running on the system and, if match found, reloads it — extremely useful for debugging purposes (if your text editor contains name of currently edited script in the title, which is true for any sane editor)
• Win+Shift+Esc — restart all scripts managed by Starter
• Win+Shift+S / Win+Shift+Alt+S — toggle suspend state of managed/all currently running AutoHotkey scripts on the system

TrayIconsSummary.ahk

Show simple Gui with a brief summary of taskbar's tray icons

Licensing

All code in this repository is unlicensed (dedicated to Public Domain, see UNLICENSE.txt), except 3rdparty directory where scripts/submodules usually have their own permissive license notices.