cout and cin in Autoit?

[Greek]

Never saw this for AutoIt,

Can someone make me an example for this with the Dos Console?

Enter your Name:

Greek

Your Name is Greek

Thanks Greek

[TurionAltec]

ConsoleRead, ConsoleWrite.

Though when compiled and run from a commandprompt, the "ConsoleRead" won't work as expected, though it will work in the Scite ouput pane.

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=72563

[Inverted]

You can use the FileOpen method shown here :

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=79275&st=0&p=571658&#entry571658

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$maxchr = 123
$input = ""

ConsoleWrite(@CRLF&"Enter your Name:"&@CRLF)

$file = FileOpen("con", 4)
$line = BinaryToString(FileRead($file, $maxchr))
FileClose($file)

ConsoleWrite("Your name is: " & $line & @CRLF)

Sleep(2000) ; I put a sleep here, so you don't have to run it from the cmd to see the output

P.S.: Of course it's much easier to use InputBox and MsgBox

Edited September 28, 2009 by Inverted

[TurionAltec]

That would have been handy a year and a half ago.

[Greek]

You can use the FileOpen method shown here :

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=79275&st=0&p=571658&#entry571658

#Region ;**** Directives created by AutoIt3Wrapper_GUI ****
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$maxchr = 123
$input = ""

ConsoleWrite(@CRLF&"Enter your Name:"&@CRLF)

$file = FileOpen("con", 4)
$line = BinaryToString(FileRead($file, $maxchr))
FileClose($file)

ConsoleWrite("Your name is: " & $line & @CRLF)

Sleep(2000) ; I put a sleep here, so you don't have to run it from the cmd to see the output

P.S.: Of course it's much easier to use InputBox and MsgBox

I Compile it and run it, but nothing to see there?

[Inverted]

You need to compile as a console application (select compile with options)

If you haven't got that option, then you need to downlod the full Scite ! (from the main page)

[Greek]

Create CUI instead GUI ist already checked.

[Inverted]

Create CUI instead GUI ist already checked.

Run it from a command prompt, what happens ?

[zodiac]

Nice trick, Inverted. Thanks for sharing.

Just did a little function to help with this:

Func _ConsoleRead($StripCRLF=1) ;If called with no parameters, it returns the user input stripped from CRLF, which should be the expected behaviour.
    Local $maxchr = 123
    Local $file = FileOpen("con", 4)
    Switch $StripCRLF
        Case 1
            Return StringReplace(BinaryToString(FileRead($file, $maxchr)),@CRLF,"")
        Case 0
            Return BinaryToString(FileRead($file, $maxchr))
    EndSwitch
    FileClose($file)
EndFunc   ;==>_ConsoleRead

For Greek:

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ConsoleWrite("Enter your Name:" & @CRLF)
$name = _ConsoleRead()
ConsoleWrite("Your name is " & $name)

Func _ConsoleRead($StripCRLF=1) ;If called with no parameters, it returns the user input stripped from CRLF, which should be the expected behaviour.
    Local $maxchr = 123
    Local $file = FileOpen("con", 4)
    Switch $StripCRLF
        Case 1
            Return StringReplace(BinaryToString(FileRead($file, $maxchr)),@CRLF,"")
        Case 0
            Return BinaryToString(FileRead($file, $maxchr))
    EndSwitch
    FileClose($file)
EndFunc   ;==>_ConsoleRead