AutoIt for Visual Studio Code
Welcome to the AutoIt extension for Visual Studio Code! This has been forked and developed from Damien122's release.
Features | Configuration | Keyboard Shortcuts | Contributing
Features
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AutoIt Syntax highlighting
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IntelliSense (code hints and completion)
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Launch, compile and build scripts from VSCode
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Launch AutoIt Help for highlighted text
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Symbol search, press
Ctrl+Shift+Oto see where Functions and Variables have been declared in the current script
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Diagnostics (Problems Tab) showing Warnings & Errors
Configuration
By default, this extension is set up for the default installation of AutoIt and SciTe4AutoIt on a 64-bit system. For alternate setups, you can access the user settings by navigating to File-> Preferences-> Settings or invoking the command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P) and searching for Preferences (example), and changing the following options:
| Config | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
autoit.aiPath |
Path to the AutoIt executable | "C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\AutoIt3.exe" |
autoit.wrapperPath |
Path to the AutoIt3Wrapper script | "C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\SciTE\AutoIt3Wrapper\AutoIt3Wrapper.au3" |
autoit.tidyPath |
Path to the Tidy executable | "C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\SciTE\Tidy\Tidy.exe" |
autoit.checkPath |
Path to the AutoIt syntax Checker (Au3Check) executable | "C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\AU3Check.exe" |
autoit.helpPath |
Path to the AutoIt3Help executable | "C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\AutoIt3Help.exe" |
autoit.infoPath |
Path to the AutoIt Window Info executable | "C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\Au3Info.exe" |
autoit.kodaPath |
Path to the Koda FormDesigner executable | "C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\SciTE\Koda\FD.exe" |
autoit.showVariablesInGoToSymbol |
Determines whether to show or hide variables when using Ctrl+Shift+O (added in v0.1.9) | true |
autoit.includePaths |
Paths to look for include files from, in an array. (added in v0.1.9) | ["C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\Include"] |
autoit.consoleParams |
A string of parameters passed to the console when the Run Script command is launched (added in v0.2.1) | "" |
autoit.enableDiagnostics |
Tells AutoIt-VSCode to provide diagnostics from Au3Check on document open, switch or save | true |
autoit.UDFCreator |
The name that will be added as Author when Insert Function Header is used | "Your Name" |
autoit.smartHelp |
Defines prefixes, paths & sources for additional help files | [ [ "", "", "" ] ] |
Keyboard Shortcuts
- Run Script:
F5 - AutoIt Check:
Ctrl+F5 - Compile Script:
Ctrl+F7 - Build Script:
F7 - Run AutoIt Help:
Ctrl+F1 - Run Au3Info:
Ctrl+F6 - Debug to MsgBox:
Ctrl+Shift+D - Debug to Console:
Alt+D - Run Koda:
Alt+M - Set Command Line Parameters:
Shift+F8 - Kill Running Script:
Ctrl+Pause/Break - Go To Definition (Jump to Variable or Function declaration):
F12 - Peek Definition (Show declarations in pop up):
Alt+F12 - Open Include file (On the current line):
Alt+i - Insert UDF Header:
Ctrl+Alt+h
NOTE:
Run, Compile and Build Script functions require the full install of SciTE4AutoIt3 alongside AutoIt.
Contributing
Check out the code, leave feedback and feature requests now on GitHub/loganch
Please fork the repository and contribute using pull requests.
Features | Configuration | Keyboard Shortcuts | Contributing