HippoMan

PS: I have seen other posts here about controlling PuTTY, but they don't address this particular issue because ... (1) ... they are invoking PuTTY via a "cmd" window. This will not work for me, because I need to use a fully-fledged PuTTY-created window which is managing an xterm-based terminal session. (2) ... I could not find any examples where the text from a PuTTY terminal window is being read and examined. I only see cases where "Send" is used to send text to the PuTTY terminal window without first checking what text already appears in that PuTTY terminal window.

I want to use AutoIt under Windows 10 to automate a PuTTY session. However, AutoIt is not recognizing any text inside of the PuTTY window. This is what I have done ... #include <Constants.au3> ;; The following creates new window to a PuTTY ssh session on ;; a different machine and waits for this window to become ;; active. The title of the window is "aa" ... Run("putty.exe -load aa") $w = WinWaitActive("aa") ;; The following properly pops up after the ssh window is fully open and active ... MsgBox($MB_OK, "Status", "ssh window open") ;; This properly waits 5 seconds. Text is showing in the ssh window ... Sleep(5000) $text = WinGetText("aa") ;; But this just pops up an empty message box with the title "Text" ... MsgBox($MB_OK, "Text", $text) I also tried WinGetText($w), and I got the same results. I want to capture the PuTTY window text. What am I doing incorrectly? Thank you very much in advance.