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

AutoIt Syntax highlighting
IntelliSense (code hints and completion)
Launch, compile and build scripts from VSCode
Launch AutoIt Help for highlighted text
Symbol search, press Ctrl+Shift+O to see where Functions and Variables have been declared in the current script
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