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AutoHotKey is a very useful scripting tool for creating macros. Here's some example code snippets for you! Message box: MsgBox Hello, world! Message box with cancel. Pressing the Cancel button will stop the current script. MsgBox, 1,, Do you really want to start this operation? IfMsgBox, Cancel     Return Setting a variable. This will wait for 2 seconds. DelayMilliseconds = 2000 Sleep DelayMilliseconds Sending keypresses to the currently active window. Explanations as comments after the semicolon. Send {Enter} SendRaw Hello ;Sends the text "Hello" Send {LAlt} ;Left alt Send {Del} Send ^a ;Ctrl+a Send !a ;Alt+a Send {Home} Send {F10} Searching for and activating windows that begin with a certain string: SetTitleMatchMode 1 ;search windows beginning with the string IfWinExist Internet Explorer {     WinActivate ;This will activate the window that was last searched for     ;Add code here... } Checking if a window is NOT active: If !WinAc

So you have installed Haxe NME and want to try the Haxe port of the great flixel game library ? Open up a command-line prompt and type haxelib install flixel It's really that simple!

Here's some helpful functions for generating random integers in python. This has been tested on Python 2.7, but should work on newer Pythons also. Please comment if you run across any problems! First, you have to import the random library. import random If you don't have it already in your library, download random.py and place it in the same folder as your python script. The nice documentation for the random library can be found here . Now you can generate floating point (float) random numbers from 0.0 to 1.0 with the command random.random() If you're looking for a way to generate random integers, here's a couple of ready functions for you! # returns random integer from -variation to +variation def rando(variation):     return int(round((random.random()*2-1)*variation)) # random integer, from zero to maxval def randzv(maxval):     return int(round(random.random()*maxval)) # random integer, from minval to maxval def randminmax(minval, maxval):     retu

Here's a code example showing how to create date & time strings. # first, we need to import the datetime module # in order to use date & time functions. import datetime # create and print string example #1 timestring = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d-%H%M") print(timestring) # create and print string example #2 timestring = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m") print(timestring) # append a text to the end of string example #2 timestring = timestring + "-logfile.txt" print(timestring) Here's what the output will look like: 2013-03-27-1449 2013-03 2013-03-logfile.txt More info on how to format the datetime string can be found here . Hope this helps you!