Command Line Information

[themax90]

I want to be able to get info from a cmd window but all the ways I have seen have been involving mouseclicks. Like:

MouseClick(WINDOW)

Send("ES{ENTER")

I want to be able to go:

$title = "C:\WINDOWS\System32\cmd.exe"

Run($title)

WinWaitActive($title)

ControlSend($title, "", "", "Some Command That Returns Info")

Sleep(100)

$info = CommandRead($title) ; Reads the CommandLine

FileWrite("test.txt", $info)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

IS THIS POSSIBLE?

If not when will AutoIt have the function?

Thank you,

AutoIt Smith

Edited January 12, 2005 by AutoIt Smith

[Bartokv]

What kind of information are you wanting to get from the comspec window?

Most DOS commands allow redirecting to a file or pipe, so it may be easier to just dump the output to a log file. I'd actually recommend redirection over screen-scrapes, since some apps may flush/overwrite the current screen. ...Just something to keep in mind.

[themax90]

Like my program MChat. I want to take the info from the core, and save it to a log(which overwrites every 2 secs) and displays into a GUI Edit Box, but the edit box scrolls all the way down. Can you create an example?

[sykes]

Check out the following link:

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...wtopic=7241&hl=

DaveF is developing a way to capture STDOUT and STDIN to grab this info as it processes.

[layer]

what DaveF is working on... is that sort of like a packet sniffer? sinse it gets the info as it's being processed?

[Valik]

  layer said:

what DaveF is working on... is that sort of like a packet sniffer? sinse it gets the info as it's being processed?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Sure... like a fly-swatter is good for hunting elephants.

[layer]

heheh, i just found out what a packet sniffer is today... or at least i made a hypothesis... "i think a packet sniffer is a program that retrieves the outgoing information from another program" ?

[Valik]

I think you need to learn what a packet is.

[layer]

  Valik said:

I think you need to learn what a packet is.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

rofl!! i knew i was some where a long the lines of no where on that guess