Newbie needs help, running cscript command from Auto it.

[clivebuckwheat]

I am one day deep into the world of Autoit and I have to tell you I am loving the power this program has.

I need your help if possible.

I need help with an autoit script, I wrote. Basically what it does is run a few cscript commands to start a service and activate office 2010, also resets the Administrator password via control userpasswords2

I'd like to wait until each command is done, before going on to the next, I opted to use Runwait.

lastly it opens word 2010 to check the activation status.

My Auto it script

#include <Process.au3>
Run('control userpasswords2')
WinWait("User Accounts","")
Send("{SPACE}{SPACE}{TAB}{TAB}{TAB}{ENTER}")
Send("password{SHIFTDOWN}?{SHIFTUP}{TAB}password{SHIFTDOWN}?{SHIFTUP}{TAB}{ENTER}")
Send("{TAB}{TAB}{TAB}{TAB}{TAB}{ENTER}")
RunWait (@COMSPEC & " /k start w32tm /resync /nowait")
RunWait (@COMSPEC & " /k start cscript "%Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\ospp.vbs" /osppsvcrestart)
RunWait (@COMSPEC & " /k start cscript "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Office14\ospp.vbs" /act)
Run('C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\Winword.exe')
WinWait("Document1 [Compatibility Mode] - Microsoft Word","")
Send("{ALTDOWN}f{ALTUP}h")

The errors on compile.

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\AutoIt Scripts\FixLocalAutoAdminLoginStudent.au3(8,41) : ERROR: syntax error (illegal character)

RunWait (@COMSPEC & " /k start cscript "%

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C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\AutoIt Scripts\FixLocalAutoAdminLoginStudent.au3(9,41) : ERROR: syntax error (illegal character)

RunWait (@COMSPEC & " /k start cscript "%

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Edited February 6, 2011 by clivebuckwheat

[rudi]

Hi.

Welcome to the forum!

I assume, that you do NOT use the Autit Customized SciTE Editor -- because it is offering syntax highlighting, showing you very clearly where your typos are (exactly where you posted it yourself).

Go to the autoit download section and get SciTE from there. using "autoit" in squared brackets (see below) will already give you some coloured syntaxing, helping you to see the mistake, doesn't it?

#include <Process.au3>
Run('control userpasswords2')
WinWait("User Accounts","")
Send("{SPACE}{SPACE}{TAB}{TAB}{TAB}{ENTER}")
Send("password{SHIFTDOWN}?{SHIFTUP}{TAB}password{SHIFTDOWN}?{SHIFTUP}{TAB}{ENTER}")
Send("{TAB}{TAB}{TAB}{TAB}{TAB}{ENTER}")
RunWait (@COMSPEC & " /k start w32tm /resync /nowait")
RunWait (@COMSPEC & " /k start cscript "%Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\ospp.vbs" /osppsvcrestart)
RunWait (@COMSPEC & " /k start cscript "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Office14\ospp.vbs" /act)
Run('C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\Winword.exe')
WinWait("Document1 [Compatibility Mode] - Microsoft Word","")
Send("{ALTDOWN}f{ALTUP}h")

In the autoit help file, you might want to have a look at "ControlCommand()" and the MACROS, (autoit help file, folder "Macro Reference"...)

Regards, Rudi.

[readmedottxt]

What Rudi said, get the proper editor

#include <Process.au3>
Run('control userpasswords2')
WinWait("User Accounts","")
Send("{SPACE}{SPACE}{TAB}{TAB}{TAB}{ENTER}")
Send("password{SHIFTDOWN}?{SHIFTUP}{TAB}password{SHIFTDOWN}?{SHIFTUP}{TAB}{ENTER}")
Send("{TAB}{TAB}{TAB}{TAB}{TAB}{ENTER}")
RunWait (@COMSPEC & ' /k start w32tm /resync /nowait')
RunWait (@COMSPEC & ' /k start cscript "%Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\ospp.vbs" /osppsvcrestart')
RunWait (@COMSPEC & ' /k start cscript "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Office14\ospp.vbs" /act')
Run('C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\Winword.exe')
WinWait("Document1 [Compatibility Mode] - Microsoft Word","")
Send("{ALTDOWN}f{ALTUP}h")

Edited February 9, 2011 by readmedottxt

[rudi]

Hi.

What Rudi said, get the proper editor

When you correct lines in sample code, it might be helpful to remove ALL typos.

; either "%programfiles%" (instead of "%program files")
RunWait (@COMSPEC & ' /k start cscript "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Office14\ospp.vbs" /osppsvcrestart')

; or use the Autoit Macro
RunWait (@COMSPEC & ' /k start cscript "' & @ProgramFilesDir & '\Microsoft Office\Office14\ospp.vbs" /osppsvcrestart')

Regards, Rudi.