Passing user input back to an installation

[Chris55728]

Forgive this (probably obvious) noobie post but I have spent a while searching for answers to my question to no avail.

I want to use AutoIt to automate the installation of some programs that I use. Doing the basics and going with the defaults are relatively simple (I've used ScriptIt before) but what I'd like to be able to do is to interrupt the script to ask the user to either put in their preferred installation directory or a specfic serial number, etc. and then pass this back to the installation. (I can worry about error checking later)

I'm a bit confused as to how you would achieve this. Below is my very basic installation script. Obviouslt $directory is going to be a directory but I need to plug that back into install somehow.

run("D:\Applications\AutoIt3\322g_setup.exe")

winwaitactive("EnCase Version 3","&Next >")

Send("!n")

winwaitactive("License Agreement","I &Agree")

Send("!a""{TAB}""{TAB}""{ENTER}")

winwaitactive("Complete Installation","Finish")

$directory = InputBox("Select Installation Directory", "Please type in the installation directory.")

*pass back $directory to the installation so that the program installs to a new directory as defined by the user.

Send("{ENTER}")

Winwaitactive("Installation Complete","OK")

Send("{ENTER}")

winwaitactive("Reboot Windows","&No")

Send("!n")

Apologies if this has already been answered elsewhere.

Cheers in advance.

Chris

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$directory = InputBox("Select Installation Directory", "Please type in the installation directory.")

*pass back $directory to the installation so that the program installs to a new directory as defined by the user.

Send("{ENTER}")

if the application is waiting for the directory:

send($directory)
send("{ENTER}")

Cheers

Kurt

[Chris55728]

Kurt,

Tried that and it works like a dream...simple really!

Cheers

Chris

[Valuater]

just an idea....but

you might want to add this

FileSelectFolder ( "dialog text", "root dir" [, flag [, "initial dir"]] )

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[jefhal]

and, of course: $directory = FileSelectFolder ( "dialog text", "root dir" [, flag [, "initial dir"]] ) to pump the returned directory into your script.