Totally random and not Kotlin-related. But has any...
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thomasnield
12/02/2021, 3:00 AMTotally random and not Kotlin-related. But has anybody used AutoHotKey? This is an amazing open-source tool I've been rediscovering. If you write technical documentation, reprogramming the clipboard and using hotstrings is a godsend. It's also a great way to mess with coworkers who leave their computers unlocked.
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rtsketo
12/02/2021, 6:54 AMI had made once basically a bot for a game with AutoHotkey just by reading pixels' colors off the screen with it. Such a powerful tool, it's not only for remapping keys or making macros as someone would think.
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thomasnield
12/02/2021, 2:01 PM@rtsketo yeah I've created helpful little tools like that too, like filling out forms or scrubbing code of formatting characters on a clipboard. I even had a loop keep an application from logging out by sending it keystrokes
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Jason5lee
12/02/2021, 3:41 PMI use it to make my windows as similar to macOS as possible.
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cedric
12/11/2021, 9:19 PMLate to the party but yes, I use AHK a lot on World of Warcraft to automate thousands of crafting operations that would require mouse clicks without it 🙂 Also useful to not getting logged out too
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thomasnield
12/14/2021, 3:31 AM@cedric haha, I used to have it send keystrokes to certain applications in time intervals so they wouldn't timeout/logout. My coworkers loved me for giving it to them. Our IT security... eh... they were mildly irritated.
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cedric
12/14/2021, 3:53 AMBlizzard is very serious about this kind of cheating and they run background processes to track them down. However, AHK is so common they don't really seem to do anything about it. Hopefully it's okay if it's just a random key now and then
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thomasnield
12/14/2021, 6:32 AMI'm sure it has to be pretty blatant to flag that... like inhumanly fast attacks. Work smarter, not harder right?
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cedric
12/17/2021, 3:14 PMActually, not really! Most cheaters do not use bots to actually "play" the game but do it for farm materials (mining, picking herbs, crafting stuff, etc... basically, automating tasks that would require thousands of manual clicks) which they can then turn into real money.
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