Interactive AutoIt Command Window

[CYCho]

Maybe I didn't search enough of this forum, but I couldn't find anything like Interactive AutoIt Command Window. I miss the Command Window of Visual FoxPro and I feel sorry that VFP was fossilized without unicode support. What do I do to copy xxx.exe to yyy.exe in the same folder for example? I would use Power Shell, or I would copy it to another folder, change the name there and move it back to the original folder. Or I would write a samll AuotoIt script including FileCopy() function and run the script. If I have VFP running in my computer, I would simply issue 'copy file xxx.exe to yyy.exe' command in the Command Window. Now I have the following script which works like VFP Command Window but with very limited functionality. Is there a UDF already written for this purpose that I couldn't find?

#include <Inet.au3>
#include <Misc.au3>
#include <File.au3>
#include <Array.au3>

HotKeySet("^!z", "MyExit")
HotKeySet("^!c", "MyCommand")

Local $a1, $a2, $a3, $s1, $s2, $s3
While 1
    Sleep(20)
WEnd

Func MyCommand()
    Local $var = InputBox("Interactive AutoIt", "Enter an AutoIt command.", "", "", 300, 130)
    If @error Or $var = "" Then
        Return
    EndIf
    Local $answer = Execute($var)
    MsgBox(0, "Interactive AutoIt", 'The value is: "' & $answer & '"   ')
EndFunc

Func MyExit()
    Exit
EndFunc

 

[mikell]

3 hours ago, CYCho said:

What do I do to copy xxx.exe to yyy.exe in the same folder for example?

Using your script, if I write in the inputbox : FileCopy("xxx.exe", "yyy.exe") , it works nice for me
It should work for many instructions, provided that these instructions are one-liners

[CYCho]

We can use this for some of 2 line commands:

First you enter Assign("a1", _FileListToArray(@ScriptDir, "*"))

Then you enter _ArrayDisplay($a1)

[mikell]

This single command works for me

_ArrayDisplay(_FileListToArray(@ScriptDir, "*"))

IMHO this kind of command window should not be intended to deal with variables

[CYCho]

@mikell Thanks for your comments. If we use editbox instead of inputbox, maybe we can make it execute multi-line commands.

[Nine]

1 hour ago, CYCho said:

If we use editbox instead of inputbox, maybe we can make it execute multi-line commands.

Execute will only work with a single line instruction.  One possible solution, you would need to execute one line after the other. Or save the whole editbox to a file.au3  then run it as a script like this :

FileWrite ("Test.au3",$var)
$answer = RunWait ("AutoIt3.exe Test.au3","")
FileDelete ("Test.au3")

 

[RTFC]

14 minutes ago, Nine said:

Execute will only work with a single line instruction.

@Nine: Wrong.

@CYCho: example

[mikell]

13 minutes ago, Nine said:

Or save the whole editbox to a file.au3  then run it as a script

Possible but tricky. Caution with non-declared variables, #includes if non-integrated funcs are used, unusable results, and so on

[Nine]

19 minutes ago, RTFC said:

@Nine: Wrong.

 

[mikell]

@Nine

This works for me

#Include <Array.au3>
Local $a = [1, 2, 3] 
Execute('Msgbox(0,"", $a[2]) @crlf _ArrayDisplay($a)')

 

[Nine]

2 minutes ago, mikell said:

@Nine

This works for me

#Include <Array.au3>
Local $a = [1, 2, 3] 
Execute('Msgbox(0,"", $a[2]) @crlf _ArrayDisplay($a)')

 

LoL, ya my bad I was still running my runwait thing

[CYCho]

Thank you @RTFC. You pointed me to some posts which are very interesting. Somehow these posts escaped my search.