Read settings from external file

[MichaelZhang]

I have written some script to install a software automatically, but I want the script user to be able to set their preferred installation path before the script runs.

So, I prefer that user can write the "path" in a file, e.g.: settings.txt, and my code could read that file and get the right value. Can I do this with AutoIT?

Would you please share some code with me?

(ps: it would be better that the method supports files with unicode)

Thanks a lot !

[99ojo]

Hi,

before you let user write installdir into a file have a look in help for FileSelectFolder and FileInstall. This may give you a guess for another solution.

;-))

Stefan

[MichaelZhang]

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I just found that I cannot modify the topic that I created.

Thanks for 99ojo's reply, but that is not what I want.

I'd also like to enable my script to run on non-English platforms, for example in Chinese OS, the object name such as windows title, text, may be changed, so I need to

maintain a file to keep those keys and values (just like a resource bundle file-> $WindowTitle="This is an installer")

[Melba23]

MichaelZhang,

From your first post: "my code could read that file and get the right value".

This seems too obvious not to have occured to you , but have you looked at the INI file functions? They make the writing and reading of .ini files really easy.

M23

[MichaelZhang]

MichaelZhang,

From your first post: "my code could read that file and get the right value".

This seems too obvious not to have occured to you , but have you looked at the INI file functions? They make the writing and reading of .ini files really easy.

M23

OK Cool, that should be one solution, I will have a try, hope it can handle non-English characters.