Automating a console window?

[mikjay]

Hi all,

I took a pretty comprehensive look through the forums to see if this had been addressed, so I apologize if this has been asked. I am wanting to run several commands from the command line, and run conditional statements based on the outcome and prompt. The window info tool only gives location info and doesn't read any text. Are there any UDFs or integrated functions that help this? Thanks!

[monoceres]

Automating console windows is annoyingly hard. Instead look at the run and stdoutread functions.

Edited October 26, 2009 by monoceres

[darkjohn20]

Tried this not even 5 minutes before I read this post. If you still need help:

#include <Constants.au3>

Global $DOS, $Message

$DOS = Run(@ComSpec & " /c Ping www.google.com", "", @SW_HIDE, $STDERR_CHILD + $STDOUT_CHILD)

While ProcessExists($DOS)
    $Message = StdoutRead($DOS, True)
WEnd

MsgBox(0, "Stdout Read:", $Message)