Automatic login and exit

[perryintokyo]

Hi Everyone, I'm a new member here and just came across this forum. Wondering if anyone can give me a little help here:

I have a 3rd party application, says ABC.exe, when it starts, it pops up a login screen with 2 fields "userID" & "password", plus of course an "LOGIN/OK" button. I need to automate the startup/login and shutdown via a batch file. I assume AutoIT can handle this request easily; however I've been researching on this forum for few hrs but can't find what I need. Can anyone give me some directions plz? many thx... - Perry

[covaks]

It doesn't get much more simple than that. Look at the following in the helpfile:

WinActive

ControlSend

ControlClick

Your code may end up looking something like this:

While 1
  If WinActive(<the login window>) Then
      ControlSend(<login window>,"",<username control>,<username>)
      ControlSend(<login window>,"",<password control>,<password>)
      ControlClick(<login window>,"",<login/ok button>)
      ExitLoop 
  EndIf
sleep(1000)
Wend

[rmarino]

Did you check to see if the executable has options that allow for a user name and password to passed to it? If not then above poster's example is good.

[perryintokyo]

Thanx to both of you. I've been reading the docs since yesterday, the more I know about AutoIT, the more I find it really powerful. Everything seems to make more sense now. Loving AutoIT now. cheers.