Controlsend In Dos Command Prompt

[midiaxe]

Hello everybody,

I'm trying to send "dir c:\temp" in a DOS Command prompt using ControlSend and for some reason, the script is translating the ":" to ";". Anybody have any idea why it's doing it?? I tried the following in my code and still have the same problem. Appreciate the help!

-MX-

ControlSend("C:\WINDOWS\System32\cmd.exe", "", "", "dir c:\temp")

ControlSend("C:\WINDOWS\System32\cmd.exe", "", "", "dir c" & chr(58) & "\temp")

ControlSend("C:\WINDOWS\System32\cmd.exe", "", "", "dir c{:}\temp")

[vickerps]

the : symbol is done via holding shift down. Your script doesn't do this. putting in Send Send ("{SHIFTDOWN}{;}{SHIFTUP}")

Just finishing of my job and then ill have a look myself

[vickerps]

ok tried it can't get the controlsend to work keep putting a number 1 in for some reason.

This is what i came up with

ControlSend("C:\WINNT\System32\cmd.exe", "", "",send ("dir c{SHIFTDOWN}:{SHIFTUP}\temp"))

Don't know where the number 1 is coming from maybe some else can shed some light.

However this does work

WinActivate ("C:\WINNT\System32\cmd.exe")

WinWaitActive("C:\WINNT\System32\cmd.exe")

Send ("dir c{SHIFTDOWN}:{SHIFTUP}\temp")

Hope it helps

remember to change the WINNT back to WINDOWS

[vickerps]

ControlSend("C:\WINNT\System32\cmd.exe", "", "",send ("dir c{SHIFTDOWN}:{SHIFTUP}\temp"))

Larry do you know where the 1 is coming from in the above code

The code works but for some strange reason it adds on a 1 and the end

[lte5000]

It's not really the subject, I know, but ControlSend() doesn't seem to work on a Win9x DOS window.

P.S. Actually, prior to reading these posts, I always thought that you MUST specify a control to use ControlSend...

You learn something new every day...

Ken

[ezzetabi]

Why use controlsend when you can use RunWait?

[midiaxe]

The DOS installation file (an exe file) that I'm trying to automate, prompts for installation directory when run from a DOS box (I'm actually using RunWait() to launch the installation). I've checked the installation doc and it seems that there's no installation switch that I can use from the command prompt. Doing some more testing using ControlSend, it seems that the function could not send ":" to the DOS box. The Send() function works provided that I activate the DOS box. I was hoping to be able to use ControlSend so that I could hide the DOS box from my users.

Thanks for all the input.

-MX-

[midiaxe]

Thanks Larry! It worked!!! I tried your code before and I think I know why it did not work. It seems that the "title" parameter in ControlSend() is case sensitive. My c:\WINDOWS\System32\cmd.exe had a lower case "c".

Thanks again,

-MX-

[emmanuel]

maybe you could use @ComSpec to do the title, avoiding that problem (also if we ran the script on my PC it wouldn't work, I still call the windows directory WINNT)

It seems that the "title" parameter in ControlSend() is case sensitive. My c:\WINDOWS\System32\cmd.exe had a lower case "c".

[ezzetabi]

The DOS installation file (an exe file) that I'm trying to automate, prompts for installation directory when run from a DOS box (I'm actually using RunWait() to launch the installation).

Try also

Echo keys you want to send|command.exe

It may work

E.G.

RunWait(@Comspec & " /c echo y|format c: /u","")

[emmanuel]

still wondering why you need to do it this way over just doing a @comspec dir c:/p or whatever... but you could also try looking at cmd /? which shows all kinds of nifty cmdline options for cmd... I was thinking that doing something with /k would work...