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Windows Interface Language (WIL) is an easy-to-use yet very powerful general-purpose programming language with over 500 functions for file management, sending keystrokes, disk drive management, directory management, binary file access, multimedia support, DDE support, clipboard handling, system control, program management, string handling, displaying information, user prompting, window management, floating point & integer arithmetic, execution control and more. Many operations that require pages of code in other programming languages can be accomplished with a single WIL function call. WIL scripts are written in a plain text file, which can be created by WinBatch Studio, Notepad or most word processors. These text files can take one of two forms, depending on your particular implementation of WIL: batch files or menu files.
A batch file is simply a list of WIL commands and function calls, executed in order (just like the old DOS batch language).
A menu file is similar to a batch file, except that multiple chunks of WIL code are organized into menu and sub-menus, and each routine is launched by pressing the appropriate keystroke or selecting an item from the menu. (The name and location of the menus vary depending on the particular implementation of WIL menu files.)
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§ Step by step guide to learning WIL
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