I need major help

[darksider]

Well i got through the basic stuff and now i need help because my scripts don't work right.

For instance i need to open, say wordpad and type some stuff.

It opens wordpad and just stops. Im including the WinWaitActive element but somthings wrong

Edited July 3, 2004 by darksider

[Jos]

Well i got through the basic stuff and now i need help because my scripts don't work right.

For instance i need to open, say wordpad and type some stuff.

It opens wordpad and just stops. Im including the WinWaitActive element but somthings wrong

Make sure the window gets the focus and the title text is correct or else WinWaitActive will wait forever.

It helps if you post the script portion you want us to help you with...

Edited July 3, 2004 by JdeB

[tutor2000]

Well i got through the basic stuff and now i need help because my scripts don't work right.

For instance i need to open, say wordpad and type some stuff.

It opens wordpad and just stops. Im including the WinWaitActive element but somthings wrong

I've noticed sometimes if a window already has focus winwaitactive may not work

Try winwait

then winactivate

Rick

[darksider]

Yeah it was the fact that the window was in focus alerady that winwaitactive didn't work.

Anyway i've come along a bit and now i need an explanation on how filesavedialog works. the help file just confused me more

[tutor2000]

Yeah it was the fact that the window was in focus alerady that winwaitactive didn't work.

Anyway i've come along a bit and now i need an explanation on how filesavedialog works. the help file just confused me more

I use that quite a bit

What confused you. Keep in my I'm no expert like these guys are

Rick

[darksider]

in the example.....

My Docs=""::{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}

what does this mean

[tutor2000]

in the example.....

My Docs=""::{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}

what does this mean

never seen it b4 looks lke an id number

Rick

[pekster]

in the example.....

My Docs=""::{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}

what does this mean

It is a CLSID, and it's a way to referance the "My Documents" folder on a user's computer. You'll notice that typing "My Documents" into an explorer window doesn't do the trick, so you have to use the CLSID instead. A practical use might be if you wanted to open a file select box that started in the users "My Documents" folder. My example works like this:

$file = FileOpenDialog("Pick a file","::{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}", "All (*.*)")
If @error Then;no file chosen
  MsgBox(0, "None selected", "You didn't choose a file!")
Else;they did pick a file
  MsgBox(0, "File chosen", "You chose the file: " & $file)
EndIf

[darksider]

thanks now how would i go about saving a file?

AND how would i find a CLSID of anygiven folder?

Edited July 6, 2004 by darksider

[CyberSlug]

...

AND how would i find a CLSID of anygiven folder?

Look in the help file ("CLSIDs of special folders" in the appendix).

To save a file, look at the example of "FileSaveDialog" in the help file. You would typically replace the Else block with something such as FileWrite($filename, $contentsOfTheFile).

P.S. You could take a look at the code for AutoPad. It's a script I've abandoned working on--and it probably only compiles correctly with a specific unstable AutoIt-GUI build, but it might be helpful to you. Take a look at the routineSaveAs() function in the Events.au3 file.

Edited July 6, 2004 by CyberSlug

[darksider]

i recenty encountered a malprocess. i need to make a program that uses a registry entry to start up when windows boots

[emmanuel]

i recenty encountered a malprocess. i need to make a program that uses a registry entry to start up when windows boots

that's an interesting statement. is there a question there?

regwrite will do it.

[Davman]

you need to add to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

add a string in there with the exe of the file you want run.

[Nutster]

If you want to only have the program run the next time you reboot, write the line in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce.

[ezzetabi]

Or make a shortcut in @startupfolder , but you have to delete it after the boot.

[darksider]

yeah ok thanks guys that helped next topic XD sorry im a total newb

Is there anyway i could use a function like rand to input a series of random charecters includeing numbers and shift-charecters? Like put some sort of function in a while loop?

[Omega0505]

Hey guys im new and im makin a script that i want to run every time windows starts and i really dont get what you mean by this...

you need to add to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

add a string in there with the exe of the file you want run.

So i just use regwrite to add this into registry and it'll make my program run every time at startup?

[pekster]

Okay, trying to keep things as simple as possable, if you just want it to run when you log into windows, you just need to add a shortcut of the program to your Startup folder (which is probably something like c:\documents and settings\<USERNAME>\Start Menu\Programs\Startup .) That's it. Once you put the shortcut there, it will start every time you log in.

[Edit]: I know you can play with the registry keys as well. It's a pain to do that, and there's no advantage against it simple and adding it to the startup folder in this case.

However, if you really mean that you want it to start when windows starts, you need to add it as a system service. The eaisiest way to start any program before you log in is to use the windows task scheduler. Under XP or 2000, you can find this in the "Scheduled Tasks" control panel. Just add a scheduled task, and tell it to start on boot. Please note unless you know what you're doing, your probably don't need to define a task to start on boot. Chances are really good you mean to start it when you log in.

Edited July 27, 2004 by pekster

[darksider]

Yeah glad you cleared that up

*BUMP*

Hey i had this idea to assign every charecter on the keyboad its own ID number and then jumble those numbers around in an array and then convert them into input

It would be a rather painstaking process but unless anyone has any other ideas that may be what i have to work with

[pekster]

You just want a random character from a set? Define the set as an array using StringSplit, like this: $array = StringSplit("abcdefghijk...", "") and then pick a random number from 1 to the end of the array like this: $random = $array[int(Random(1, UBound($array)))]

It's that simple.