Combining Batch File Commands with Autoit Commands

[power1power1]

Hello, I was hoping to have a special autoit function to handle Windows batch file commands, something like this:

autoit commands

batchfile()

autoit commands

func batchfile()

    batch file commands

endfunc

Edited November 6, 2013 by power1power1

[Jfish]

You can shellexecute a batch file within your function.

You can also run DOS console commands with Run ...

To run DOS (console) commands, try Run(@ComSpec & " /c " & 'commandName', "", @SW_HIDE) ; don't forget " " before "/c"

Edited November 6, 2013 by Jfish

[BrewManNH]

Anything written for a batch file can be replaced with the appropriate AutoIt code.

[power1power1]

Yes, thanks for the replies. Still, having such a special function would be nice.

[Jos]

Wondering which functionality in AUtoIt3 is missing for you to propose this?

Jos

[power1power1]

Oh well, from functionality point of view, you can call a batch file from within an autoit script. However, what I was asking is a different way of doing it. You would insert your batch commands whithin a special function that would reside inside the autoit script. So, if you share your complied autoit code with others, you would provide them with the autoit file only, rather than the autoit file plus a bunch of related batch files. Any ways, it's wishful thinking, I guess.

Edited November 6, 2013 by power1power1

[BrewManNH]

But why would you NEED the batch files or their commands, if the autoit script can do it, without resorting to using a command from another language?

[power1power1]

We can think of senarios that this would become handy: You would take your old batch files and just reuse the code, rather than rewriting them ...

Edited November 6, 2013 by power1power1

[Chimaera]

I used to use a lot of batch stuff when i first started but i can assure you there is very little need for it as i have gradually moved my scripts into AutoIt and i would never go back as i have added functionality now which i couldn't get just with batch.

I still use robocopy and stuff like that but i control it from AutoIt nowadays and i have never had a situation where having batch code would be usefull.

Up to you of course

[Carlo84]

You can do exactly what you want with the run function http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/functions/Run.htm

Read the remarks

Also a tip to run several commands on one line you can seperate commands with the pipe character.

To get return valuess you have to use StdoutRead and StderrRead

Too much trouble then it's worth to re-invent the wheel

Edited November 6, 2013 by Djarlo

[power1power1]

Thank you guys for the replies. I just want to emphasis again that the point was to prevent putting effort on the code rewriting/converting process, else you would just do the whole thing entirely in autoit.

[BrewManNH]

If you're looking to directly run the batch file commands in an AutoIt script then your answer is, you can't. The 2 languages aren't compatible. If you want to run batch files then use batch files, you can always FileInstall them into a compiled script and delete when done with them. Or you can put the batch commands into the script, write a batch file when the script is run, run the batch file, and then delete it when done. See the _SelfDelete function in the example scripts forum to see how he did it with VBscript code, same concept.

[power1power1]

This would be a good workaround ... I guess one can create a temporary batch file in Windows temp directory, copy the text commands to the batch file, run the batch file and then delete the batch file when done.