Script re-starts executable in the middle of running

[Vanguard]

The project I'm running to install all three parts of my Cisco project consists of three scripts. The first script runs well (now that I've ironed out my compiling error), but the next script for some reason starts at the beginning.

While I was designing this script, I was simply the blind man, providing responses where I thought the window would require them. As I continued working with it I found that the mouse clicks I was sending were "missing", either because I was mis-timing my Sleeps or because the WaitWinActive commands I was using simply weren't waiting for the window.

To cure this I decided to start using a test to make durn sure when I sent that ControlClick that the click was a success, by using the ControlClick as a function:

CODE

dim $i ; Dim variable

run("C:\Cisco\PartIa\CTIOSsr7.1.4\CTIOS7.1.4.exe") ; Call executable

WinWaitActive("Installer") ;Wait for Installshield window to pop up

Sleep(2000) ;Wait additional two seconds

$i=0 ; Initialize flag

Do

$i=ControlClick("Installer", "", "[CLASS:Button; INSTANCE:2]") ; Call click as function, return mouse click errorcode

sleep(500) ; Wait .5 seconds, in case "missed"

Until $i=1 ; If errorcode is successful, end Do...Until

Sleep(1000) ;Wait 1 second before next instruction

What happens is that the code progresses, and I'm left to guess as to whether or not the Do...Until test is actually working or if the whole thing is falling through, however, the code successfully runs right up until the end of the several pages of "select and click next", where it flat out restarts the entire process.

Is the Do...Until actually restarting my process somehow? Here is the entire code:

CODE

dim $i

run("C:\Cisco\PartIa\CTIOSsr7.1.4\CTIOS7.1.4.exe")

WinWaitActive("Installer") ;Wait for Installshield window to pop up

Sleep(2000) ;Wait additional two seconds

$i=0

Do

$i=ControlClick("Installer", "", "[CLASS:Button; INSTANCE:2]") ;Pass Welcome screen

sleep(500)

Until $i=1

Sleep(1000) ;Wait two seconds

$i=0

Do

$i=ControlClick("Installer", "", "[CLASS:Button; INSTANCE:2]");Pass Admin Rights Required screen

sleep(500)

Until $i=1

Sleep(1000)

$i=0

Do

$i=ControlClick("Installer", "", "[CLASS:Button; INSTANCE:1]");Select "I accept the terms..."

sleep(500)

Until $i=1

Sleep(500)

$i=0

Do

$i=ControlClick("Installer", "", "[CLASS:Button; INSTANCE:4]");Select "Next" past Software Licence window

Sleep(500)

; Continue on to directions window

Until $i=1

Sleep(1000)

$i=0

Do

$i=ControlClick("Installer", "", "[CLASS:Button; INSTANCE:1]");Select "I have read and COMPLETED the directions."

sleep(500)

Until $i=1

$i=0

Sleep(500)

Do

$i=ControlClick("Installer", "", "[CLASS:Button; INSTANCE:4]");Select "Next" past directions window

Sleep(500)

Until $i=1

Sleep(1000)

;sleep(10000) ; Delay waiting for "will be installed in the following location:" screen

$i=0

Do;

$1=ControlClick("Installer", "", "[CLASS:Button; INSTANCE:4]"); "CTIOS7.1(4) will be installed...following location: ...with the following features...

Sleep(500)

Until $i=1

Sleep(10000) ; Wait 10 seconds for install to occur & "Registering CTIOS COM files..." window to pop up

$i=0

Do

$i=ControlClick("Installer", "", "[CLASS:Button; INSTANCE:2]");Select "Next" to begin Registering CTIOS COM files and .NET assemblies into GAC

;send("{SPACE}") ;Begin Registering CTIOS COM files and .NET assemblies into GAC

sleep(1000)

Until $i=1

;sleep(45000) ;Wait 45 seconds for the install to complete

;$i=0

;Do

; $i=ControlClick("Installer", "", "[CLASS:Button; INSTANCE:1]");Select "I have read and COMPLETED the directions."

; sleep(1000)

;Until $i=1

;Sleep(1000)

;$i=0

;Do

; $i=ControlClick("Installer", "", "[CLASS:Button; INSTANCE:4]");Select "Next" past "You may now restart the CTIOS Services..." window

; Sleep(1000)

;Until $i=1

;Send("{SPACE}"); Spacebar on "Finish"

;run("Notepad.exe")

;WinWaitActive("Untitled - Notepad")

;Send("YOU MUST NOW REBOOT")

;send(".")

;send(".")

;send(".")

;send(".")

;send("DO NOT FORGET TO LOAD THE SECOND HALF AFTER REBOOTING!")

[DaveF]

In the very few cases that I've been unable to get a satisfactory silent/unattended install process for a package, I've used a sequential process rather than a loop. You could use ControlClick as you have, but rather than pausing and looping you could use ControlGetText or WinGetText to verify that your install wizard actually advanced to the next pane. The AutoIt v3 Window Info tool in the AutoIt3 program folder can help you determine the names and text from your install wizard.

By testing for text after each click you can add some rudimentary error checking/correction to your script that you wouldn't have with click-this-button-'til-it's-clicked-proper loops.