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AutoIt v3: Your Quick Guide

Errata for AutoIt v3: Your Quick Guide

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The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".

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Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update

Version Location Description Submitted By Date submitted Date corrected
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Page 4
3rd text paragraph

Second sentence should read (words to be added in CAPS):

If a Dim variable is declared inside a function but a Global variable WITH THE SAME NAME already exists, ...

Anonymous  Mar 13, 2009 
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Page 9
Five commands at top of page

These five lines appear to copy the same source file to five different destination names. (I suspect this was a c+p error when generating the example lines.) This is not what the text describes.

This is a very unfortunate error to be the first example of how the FileInstall function works. (If the commands are correct, the text needs serious rework to explain the non-obvious subtleties of what is really going on.) As it is, I don't think it is possible for a naive reader to understand the FileInstall function from this example.

Note from the Author or Editor:
The input filenames should be identical to the output filenames. This was a copy/paste error when generating the example.

Anonymous   
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Page 22
first paragraph

There is a bad line break in the function example at the top of the page, putting "$paramN,_" on the second line when it should be at the end of the first line. As written, this will generate an error.

Note from the Author or Editor:
This must have been caused by a formatting change. The submitter is correct - the first line should break after "$paramN,_".

Anonymous  Mar 13, 2009