![]() One of the more popular tools we see for this is AutoHotkey and I have written an article in the past explaining how to use this for autocorrect in any application at all. The advent of APIs support the work of clever developers who have created tools such as AutoHotkey or AutoIt that can allow people like me to write a simple script that can interact with a modern windows computer, or even a modern application running on that computer. But fortunately for me this doesn’t mean you can’t use the same sort of scripting skills that I used in the “olden days”. Today, programming computers requires a lot more technical knowledge than it did when I was writing small applications for a PET or an HP calculator. This had very basic programming functions, a magnetic card reader and a thermal printer and I loved it! In fact I loved the way HP calculators worked so much I had an 11c for years until I dropped it trying to align a laser while being dangled headfirst into a catchpit on a construction site! And we think the Studio alignment process is tricky □īut that’s another story… what I’m slowly getting to is the ability to program computers to make them behave the way you would like. I should have realised back then it would have been smart to focus on technology, but instead I took a bit of a detour in my career and computers didn’t feature at all until around 1987 when I was introduced to the HP41c from Hewlett Packard. I’ve always had a secret desire to be able to program computers… the problem is it’s not something you can do just like that! I can recall starting off with a Commodore PET 2001 some time in the late 70’s and I can remember how enjoyable it was to be able to create simple scripts that could react to whatever you pressed on the keyboard.
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