AutoIT Macros - Running Multiple Macros in a loop

[ttleser]

All,

I'm writing a script for my company that our helpdesk will have end-users run when they call with problems. The script will obtain some basic information from the system but will have checkboxes to allow it to check other things. For example, one checkbox may be for more network information, driver version, IP, subnet, etc.. Another checkbox will obtain the version of SAP on the system. This way if the issue the user called on was about SAP, the helpdesk would tell the user to put a checkmark in the SAP box. The program would gather the "basic" information, plus stuff about SAP.

I'm looking for a way to be able to run multiple AutoIT macros in a for/next loop. The thought is to have a script read a INI file and run all the AutoIT macros specified and store the outputs in an array to be outputted later. This will allow me to store the INI on a network share and I can customize what data I want to obtain rather than hard coding it into the program and updating the program all the time.

A sample INI would look like this:

[Basic]
ComputerName = @ComputerName
Operating System = @OSVersion
Service Pack = @OSServicePack
IP Address 1 = @IPAddress1
IP Address 2 = @IPAddress2

[Network]
Driver=

The function is this:

Func GatherBasic()
$BasicArray = IniReadSection(@ScriptDir&"\GWPInfo.ini","Basic")
;_ArrayDisplay($BasicArray)
;msgbox(0,"test",$BasicArray[0][0])
ReDim $OutputArray[$BasicArray[0][0]+1][2]
For $d = 1 to $BasicArray[0][0]
;msgbox(0,"test",$d)
$OutputArray[$d][0] = $BasicArray[$d][0]
$OutputArray[$d][1] = $BasicArray[$d][1]
_ArrayDisplay($OutputArray)
Next
EndFunc

This would simply store in the array: ComputerName | @Computername

I know I could simply do this, but that defeats me being able to add more stuff on the fly:

$OutputArray[1][0] = "ComputerName"

$OutputArray[1][1] = @ComputerName (which would be "TEST COMPUTER"

[BrewManNH]

Try this and see if it does what you need.

#include <Array.au3>
$String = ""
$aArray = GatherBasic()
_ArrayDisplay($aArray)
For $I = 1 To $aArray[0][0]
    $String &= $aArray[$I][0] & " = " & Execute($aArray[$I][1]) & @CRLF
Next
MsgBox("", "Results", $String)

Func GatherBasic()
    $BasicArray = IniReadSection(@ScriptDir & "GWPInfo.ini", "Basic")
    Local $OutputArray[$BasicArray[0][0] + 1][2]
    $OutputArray[0][0] = $BasicArray[0][0]
    For $d = 1 To $BasicArray[0][0]
        ;msgbox(0,"test",$d)
        $OutputArray[$d][0] = $BasicArray[$d][0]
        $OutputArray[$d][1] = $BasicArray[$d][1]
    Next
    Return $OutputArray
EndFunc   ;==>GatherBasic

[ttleser]

Thanks Brewman, the execute command is exactly what I needed. I looked through the help file and even looking at the description for execute and it didn't look obvious to me that it was what I needed.

Thanks much!

[BrewManNH]

I'm interested in seeing what you come up with, might be useful where I work as well.