CUI Interface for use with CMD

[edthedestroyer]

I am trying to create a script that allows me to run and use it with CMD as the interface.

For example:

C:\>myscript

Enter PIN

: ****

Success

C:\>

This is the code I have so far...

#AutoIt3Wrapper_Change2CUI=y
ConsoleWrite("Enter PIN" & @CRLF & ":")

Local $input

While 1
$input &= ConsoleRead()
if StringInStr($input,@CRLF) <> 0 then ExitLoop
Wend

if $input = "1111" & @CRLF Then
ConsoleWrite("Success")
Else
ConsoleWrite("Failure")
ConsoleWrite($input)

EndIf

The problem is that after it writes Enter PIN: it will not accept input and gets stuck. After I close the script, all the input I typed shows up in cmd.

C:\>myscript

Enter PIN

:

;;;; get's stuck,closes script

C:\>1111

I want be able to run this script without opening another cmd window but I haven't been able to find relevant examples for creating a "console" application used through cmd.

Can anyone help me out?

[dany]

unfortunately reading the console like that doesn't work.

Do a search on 'Console UDF', there are a few around and they might have solved this problem.

[edthedestroyer]

Yea that's what I'm looking at now. Not the end of the world I guess. Thanks.

[Mat]

Since it hasn't been posted on the forum yet, you won't find mine: https://github.com/MattDiesel/au3-console

Example from _Console_Alloc: https://github.com/MattDiesel/au3-console/blob/master/Examples/_Console_Alloc.au3

This UDF is work in progress, but is pretty complete. Probably not the easiest to use as it is more of a direct wrapper over the windows api.