Need help - Autoit - what is it good for?

[Dybbiz]

Hey
wondering, what is autoit good for? what programs can u make?
can u make bots? hacks? or games? or is it just rubbish?

thanks? !

[ev0]

It just basically simulates what you would normally do in game. Like spam 1,2,3 every few seconds. It's very basic.

[abuckau907]

It actually has moderate power. It's basically just a scripting engine -- it was never designed to be as powerful (ie. as hard to learn) as a true programming language.
There are a lot of public functions (programming jargon) which make a lot of tasks easy..for example simulating key-board presses might be as easy as
PressKeys("abcd")
PressKeys("{ENTER}")
or something very similar. Point is, it's easy to use, and has a lot of public (also easy to use) functions.
It's draw backs are, it's not a real programming language...so certain tasks are just not possible. // I don't know much about the scripting engine itsself.
For example, holding down Alt + pressing some keys, might be very hard in auto-it, because the public function wasn't designed to work that way. Maybe.
The built in functions auto-it has are highly designed for 'bot making' etc (ie. PixelSearch functions, etc) and might save you some time. I'm pretty sure it has memory reading/writing functions..so for a lot of (simple) games, that's enough to make trainers/hacks. If you're only learning programming to make game hacks, you probably won't have the interest to read all the material required. usually it's as simple as WriteMemory(myAmmo, 100);, but programming isn't something you can pick up in a week, or even 6 months.

make bots: yes (probably not good)
make hacks: yes (depends on complexity)
make games: sure, ever seen boring games like guess a number 1-100 lol? (does it make using DirectX / 3d stuff easy, I highly doubt it)