Ruby Programming Language :: Issue with ControlSend function using AutoIT in Ruby


	Issue with ControlSend function using AutoIT in Ruby I'm having an issue running scripts that use AutoIT against my windows box, half the time the ControlSend function sends a string to the GUI that should be all upcase, in a hodge-podge of different case letters. Example: I'm trying to send a string to a window with the following variables, ext. (this isn't the actual code, just the pertinent bits) @datestring = date.year.to_s + "_" + date.month.to_s + "_" + date.day.to_s @hostname = `hostname` @hostname = @hostname.upcase.to_s.chomp autoit = WIN32OLE.new("AutoItX3.Control") autoit.ControlSend("Enter SQL Database Information", "", 302, "LMNIGHTLY#{@hostname}#{@datestring}") Most of the time this will send a string like "LMNIGHTLYHOSTNAME2007_5_25" but occasionally it sends a string like "lMNIgHTlyHOsTNAME2007_5_2". At other places in the script it has the send the same string to a system call, and this always comes out correctly, so it seems like it's just a problem with AutoIT. Also the issue seems specific to some aspect of my windows configuration because the script runs fine on some servers and not on others. Has anyone had experience with this issue before? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. On May 25, 1:51 pm, Skye Weir-Mathews <carpeur@gmail.com> wrote: ...SNIP... > Most of the time this will send a string like > "LMNIGHTLYHOSTNAME2007_5_25" but occasionally it sends a string like > "lMNIgHTlyHOsTNAME2007_5_2". > At other places in the script it has the send the same string to a > system call, and this always comes out correctly, so it seems like it's > just a problem with AutoIT. ...SNIP... The AutoItX docs indicate the the Send command is sensitive to the state of Caps Lock and also can be affected is a user happens to be holding down SHIFT when the command is executed. Would explain the intermittent/seemingly system dependent behavior... Cheers Chris Hulan ChrisH wrote: > The AutoItX docs indicate the the Send command is sensitive to the > state of Caps Lock > and also can be affected is a user happens to be holding down SHIFT > when the command > is executed. Would explain the intermittent/seemingly system dependent > behavior... > Cheers > Chris Hulan This worked well at first, but then my issue came back which is confusing to me, because I've run a number of tests making absolutely sure that Caps Lock is turned off and I wasn't touching the keyboard at all. Interestingly enough when AutoIT send a bad string, it always downcases the same letters (when "LMNIGHTLYHOSTNAME2007_5_25" is bad, it always looks like "lMNIgHTlyHOsTNAME2007_5_2") which makes me think that it's not related to input from the keyboard, which is likely to be different every time. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. On 5/29/07, Skye Weir-Mathews <carpeur@gmail.com> wrote: - Hide quoted text - > ChrisH wrote: > > The AutoItX docs indicate the the Send command is sensitive to the > > state of Caps Lock > > and also can be affected is a user happens to be holding down SHIFT > > when the command > > is executed. Would explain the intermittent/seemingly system dependent > > behavior... > > Cheers > > Chris Hulan > This worked well at first, but then my issue came back which is > confusing to me, because I've run a number of tests making absolutely > sure that Caps Lock is turned off and I wasn't touching the keyboard at > all. Interestingly enough when AutoIT send a bad string, it always > downcases the same letters (when "LMNIGHTLYHOSTNAME2007_5_25" is bad, it > always looks like "lMNIgHTlyHOsTNAME2007_5_2") which makes me think that > it's not related to input from the keyboard, which is likely to be > different every time. This seems to be an issue with autoit itself. At first I intended to ask you to try with standalone autoit, but then I googled a bit, and found [1]. So look at autoit site if there's a solution. I'm too sleepy to do anything more now. Jano [1] http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=15499 Okay, I think I figured it out, my script was automating an installer and sending messages to STDOUT letting me know how it was progressing through the installation for example: puts "Enter Microsoft SQL Database Authentication Information" autoit.WinWait("Enter Microsoft SQL Database Authentication Information", "", 5) autoit.ControlSend("Enter Microsoft SQL Database Authentication Information", "", 301, "XXX") autoit.ControlSend("Enter Microsoft SQL Database Authentication Information", "", 302, "XXX") autoit.ControlSend("Enter Microsoft SQL Database Authentication Information", "", 1, "{ENTER}") so, I noticed that when the script was running in the background it installed fine, and when it was running in the foreground I got the funky chars. Since then I commented out the lines like puts "Enter Microsoft SQL Database Authentication Information" and it seems to be running fine. Thanks ya'll -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.