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Sorry for reviving so old thread, but does someone know why this piece of code doesn't work properly on Windows 8 / 8.1? You have to press ENTER twice and only second string is returned. The same compiled program run on Windows 7 works great.

Hi, I've been using solution described in topic '?do=embed' frameborder='0' data-embedContent>> with success up to Windows 7 (x64). But lately I've moved my program to Windows 8 (x64). And every time I try to read user input from command prompt I have to press ENTER two times and returned string is empty. I've tried compiling again on Windows 8 but result is the same

@FireFox Thank you very much, seems to be what I need. I'll report back if I can make it work the way I want. @JLogan3o13 Well, it's not the same subject anymore. I started previous thread thinking that I have problems with timerdiff in while loop, and it turned out to be something completely different.

Hi, I've tried to achieve above-mentioned with code from but stumbled upon problems that I mentioned here '?do=embed' frameborder='0' data-embedContent>> So, has anyone done this? I mean, prompt user for input (like "Please enter your name:"), wait for some time, and move along when there is no input. And yes, it's a console application. BTW, it seems very strange that AutoIt has so many advanced functions, but it lacks simple way to read user input from command prompt.

Look, "con" file is a special file. Just take a look at . This code works. I was trying to modify it to set time limit for a user. It seems that I misunderstood how it works. I thought that while loop is running all the time capturing keystrokes. But using _WinAPI_ReadFile without while also waits for ENTER, so it seems I can't achieve what I want with this code. So, I will rephrase my question: Is there a way in autoit to read user input from command prompt with some kind if time limit?

No, and I think it's not the point. It looks like condition is not evaluated. I've made an experiment and removed while loop completely, so only these 2 lines left. _WinAPI_ReadFile($hFile, DllStructGetPtr($tBuffer), 1, $nRead) If $nRead > 0 Then $sRet &= DllStructGetData($tBuffer, 1) Even without While command prompt waits for user input. So it seems that _WinAPI_ReadFile stops execution.

I've tried. If I remove _WinAPI_ReadFile related code timer works, but with this three lines even if I insert some ConsoleWrite or FileWrite (eg. ConsoleWrite(Int(TimerDiff($start))) ) in this loop it looks like this piece of code is omitted. I don't know exactly what's going on in these three lines so maybe the problem is it's working completely different than I think it is.

Hi! I'm trying to adapt piece of code found here to set time limit for user to enter something in command prompt. I wrote something like this: Local $tBuffer = DllStructCreate("char"), $nRead, $sRet = "" Local $hFile = _WinAPI_CreateFile("CON", 2, 2) $start = TimerInit() While TimerDiff($start) < 10000 _WinAPI_ReadFile($hFile, DllStructGetPtr($tBuffer), 1, $nRead) If DllStructGetData($tBuffer, 1) = @CR Then ExitLoop If $nRead > 0 Then $sRet &= DllStructGetData($tBuffer, 1) WEnd But it doesn't work. Command prompt waits endlessly for input. I've tried changing "TimerDiff($start) < 10000 " to "if TimerDiff($start) > 10000 Then ExitLoop " but it seems like condition is not even evaluated. Am I missing something?