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Good day,

First off i'm pretty new to AutoIt so please bear with me on this. I've been working on a script to automate the PDFCreator webinstaller installation. I get to the end fine but once it actually triggers the last part of the install (while the green progress bar is showing) the script is already ended, thus it cant sent the ("!f") to end the installation. Here is my script. Any and all help is much appreciated. Its like the script is running too fast ? Not too sure. But willing to learn :)

Run("PDFCreatorWebSetup.exe")
WinWait("Select Setup Language")
ControlClick("Select Setup Language","OK","TNewButton1")
WinWait("Setup - PDFCreator WebSetup")
ControlClick("Setup - PDFCreator WebSetup","Download","TNewButton1")
WinWait("Select Setup Language")
ControlClick("Select Setup Language","OK","TNewButton1")
WinWaitActive("Setup - PDFCreator")
Send("!n")
WinWaitActive("Setup - PDFCreator")
Send("!a")
Send("!n")
WinWaitActive("Setup - PDFCreator")
Send("!n")
WinWait("Setup - PDFCreator")
ControlClick("Setup - PDFCreator","Custom Installation","TNewRadioButton1")
Sleep(1000)
ControlClick("Setup - PDFCreator","Next >","TNewButton2")
Sleep(500)
WinWait("Setup - PDFCreator")
Sleep(500)
ControlClick("Setup - PDFCreator","Install","TNewButton2")
WinWaitActive("Setup - PDFCreator")
sleep(500)
Send("!f")

Thank you very much for your time.

-Marc André Leclerc-

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Welcome to AutoIt and the forum!

I think there is an easier way: PDFCreator has a silent instalaltion option. Check this website.

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Hi, Noxeterna. Is there any reason you cannot use the silent install?

PDFCreator-1_2_3_setup.exe /verysilent /f /norestart

If you need more options, you can use the /SAVEINF="<PATH>" option to create an inf file for your installation. Take a look here for more:

http://www.itninja.com/software/open-source-1/pdfcreator-1/1-7765

Edit: Dang too slow :)

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First of all, thanks to both of you for the swift responses. I have tried your solution JLogan and it worked...I tried finding the silent switches on a web installer with Universal switch finder but it would not come up with anything, so i downloaded the full package and found valid switches which i could use in a ''Run'' command. Also im not too too familiar with the /SAVEINF="<PATH>" option you mentioned i will have to look it up. What i am basically trying to achieve is making a dvd i can put all my software on and run the script to install all of them unattended so i can work on other things. Hopefully i'll have it all up and operational next week. I would try for a gui with checkboxes (so i can toggle what to install or all ) but since im pretty new i want to try for something simple at first...then i can try to wrap my brain around GUI codes. Thanks again. I'll probably have more questions along the way. Loving AutoIt and i expect ill be using it a lot as of now :)

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We will be glad to help you with your questions.

I can't remember where I found it but I think there was a thread about some kind of universal installer some time ago. It allowed to define the products to be installed in an INI file.

If I find something I will post the link here.

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Should be easy to understand, if not, we're here.

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Here are a few links to ready made softer installer scripts:

by abberration

by TheSaint (Maybe not exactly what you are looking for)

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Wow, once again thanks for the prompt help. I tried setting up the Software installer by Abberation. I made the proper folder and file structure, setup the ini file. But once i launch the the script i get an error at line 97:

==> Array variable subscript badly formatted.:

ReDim $array[$i]

Ill re-include the code so you can see for yourselves: (Lines 84-97)

Func _Populate()
    ; Find all files in the Software folder and populate the tabs with the installers.
    $f = FileFindFirstFile("Software/*.*")
    Dim $array[1]
    $i = 0
    Do
        $s = FileFindNextFile($f)
        If Not @error Then
            $array[$i] = $s
            $i += 1
            ReDim $array[$i + 1]
        EndIf
    Until @error
    ReDim $array[$i]

I think i will need way more reading up. This Code is exactly what im looking for. I checked the redim function help and could not figure out what was wrong with it. I guess ill lookup more on it and try to make sense of all this. GUI is a tad way too advance for me still. Thanks once more for all the help provided. Really appreciated.

-Marc-Andre Leclerc-

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This error happens as long as subfolder "Software" is empty.

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Once again i am in your debt :) This works wonders. Thanks you so very much for this. I was wondering if you might be able to suggest very basic GUI tutorials that i can work on over the weekend to try and make more sense of this ? If not its no biggy i'll google-fu it. Once again, thanks to all who responded on this. You guys rock :)

-Marc-Andre Leclerc-

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Start here.

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I would replace the section where that code redims the array with something more along the lines of this:

Func _Populate()
     ; Find all files in the Software folder and populate the tabs with the installers.
     $f = FileFindFirstFile("Software*.*")
     Local $array[10] = ["0"]
     $i = 1
     Do
          $s = FileFindNextFile($f)
          If Not @error Then
               $array[0] = $i ; This stores how many items were found in the 0 element of the array
               $array[$i] = $s
               $i += 1
               If UBound($array) <= $i Then ; this only redims the array if $i is = or > than the size of the array
                    ReDim $array[$array[0] * 10] ; this redims the array to be 10 times it's previous size to hold more items
               EndIf
          EndIf
     Until @error
     ReDim $array[$i] ; this redims the array down to just how many items were found in the search.
EndFunc   ;==>_Populate

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