From: Eric Christopherson Date: 2010-10-26T16:25:58+09:00 Subject: Re: global hotkeys in windows. On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Jethrow .. wrote: > Ted Flethuseo wrote in post #956795: >> ... does registering it mean that it actually copies it to some windows >> directory. (Is there a specific windows directory for dlls? > > Registering does not create a copy. Registering will make it so you can > create a COM object (WIN32OLE.new), but the DLL will remain wherever it > was when you registered it. Personally, I keep it in the same directory > as my AHK installation. However, many DLL files are located in the > Windows Directory. > > On a side note, the maintainer of the DLL has been updating it regularly > recently. He provided a direct link for the Windows (32 bit) Unicode > version: http://www.autohotkey.net/~HotKeyIt/AutoHotkey.dll To practice a little bit, I made some simple scripts to demonstrate using AutoHotkey with Ruby, and put them on GitHub. What I have so far is at: http://github.com/echristopherson/ahk_drb_demo