A guide to the AutoHotkey forums

Forums for different languages

There’s the english forum, the german forum, the chinese forum, the korean forum and the russian forum. Of course you’re welcome to post in any of these, given you can understand the answers ;-). In this section, we will look at the english forum.

Subforums

There are 7 public subforums:

Each of them has a short description what it is thought for. Do not ignore this! Posting in the wrong subforum doesn’t make you popular.

Solving a problem (Ask for Help)

If you have a problem with AutoHotkey, your code doesn’t work or you don’t even know how to code something, post in “Ask for Help”. There are some prerequisities, listed here. Most important:

If you have a problem with a script posted in “Scripts & Functions”, you may either post in the script’s thread or in a new thread in “Ask for Help”.

If you suspect a problem in your script to be a bug in AutoHotkey, it is often useful to post in “Ask for Help” first and let others confirm that. A moderator can move the thread then.

Publishing code (Scripts & Functions)

If you have a script or a function etc. you want to share, post in “Scripts & Functions”. Add a description of what your function does, the function (or a link), and if possible, an example script.

Also check out “Hosting code”.

Reporting a bug in AutoHotkey (Bug Reports)

As mentioned above, it is often useful to let your “bug” be confirmed in “Ask for Help” before posting here. Also note that this is not intended for posting bugs in other scripts, post in the respective thread instead.

Post ideas for future AutoHotkey versions (Wish List)

This is the subforum for posting your wishes on AutoHotkey, it is not intended for wishes about other scripts. Think about your wish twice before posting: does it make sense? Is it easy to implement? Is it worth to be implemented? Can it be done by a script? etc…

Getting information on new versions and other events (Announcements)

This forum holds threads about announcements by AutoHotkey developers and moderators. You can’t open a thread here, but comment on the existing threads. Today, mot of the new threads are about new versions of AutoHotkey_L.

Sharing cool software (Utilities and Resources)

Here you can share cool software, websites etc. you have found, even if it is not directly related to AutoHotkey.

Offtopic (General Chat)

In “General Chat”, you can post about everything you want. You can discuss on what happens in other forums, the web and the rest of the world.

Terms of Use

When posting anywhere in the forums, please ensure you don’t violate it’s Terms of use.

Hosting code

There are pretty much ways to host your code. There’s autohotkey.net, a site which offers free FTP hosting (just create an account there) and a Pastebin, but only for AutoHotkey-related content.

More and more users also use github, where you can host open source code for free (or closed-source for money), regardless of the coding language. Github is also used to host this site. Usage is a little more complicate, but you’ll get used to it.

Of course, you can also use any other hosting site, such as SkyDrive, Dropbox, or include the code directly in your forum posts. If doing so, please enclose the code in [code] ; my code [/code] tags.

IRC

There’s also an IRC channel for AutoHotkey available. Just check out this post.