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Get List of Printers from Windows Server

I'd like to query a Windows server that is publishing a set of printers programatically and find out what printers are available on the remote machine (name and description) without installing the printers locally the name of the printer driver respectively I'd like to be able to process the result in some scripting language like Aut...

how to hide windows program and send clicks and fill out forms ?

i need to hide a windows program (not visible in taskbar, system tray. visible in taskmgr). and send clicks and fill out forms on this windows program (while hidden). possible with autoit or autohotkey ? any other suggestions ? ...

possible to hide browser and control it programmatically ? .net or vb6

basically using autoit, what happens is that IE windows pops up, and autoit clicks on stuff, and can control it and so on. what i'd like is a way to hide the browser and still let autoit do it's magic. the browser should not be visible in taskbar or system tray but should be visible as a browser.exe in process window. autoit solution w...

how to automate / script processes like signups .

which is the best tool for this - Automation of signup process to a website , e.g an email signup The tool should be able to take data from an external data file like an excel of csv file this data file would contain data such as first name , last name , username, password etc. basic data required during an email signup . I am imagin...

OCR: How to improve accuracy - existing libraries for removing non-text 'furniture', shapes, etc to avoid confusing OCR?

I want to remove rectangles etc that enclose text in a screenshot image, so that I can perform optical character recognition to get accurate text from the screenshot. Background: I doing this to extract data from a legacy application for use with other applications. This is the only way to get at this data as associated files are in a ...

Is AutoIt "Managed Code"?

An extension of my previous thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2634531/c-wrapping-an-application-within-another-application So I'm launching embedded resource applications via Reflection and I'm unsure whether I can use AutoIt (.au3) files or not. People say it needs to be "Managed Code". I'm not completely sure what that means ...

can autoit work with terminal emulator/ bosanovs /picom /ericom ?

Hi I am tiring to run a unit test with AutoIt In BOSANOVA terminal emulator (AS-400)‎ ‎ AutoIt doesn't recognize the object I am running on blank‎ Is there a solution for this?‎ ...

Autoit error within C# application

Hi I am trying to use AutoIT within a C# application in the following way: au = new AutoItX3Lib.AutoItX3Class(); . . . . au.WinMenuSelectItem("MySoftware", "", "&File", "&Open"); On compiling this I get the following error: Error 1 No overload for method 'WinMenuSelectItem' takes '4' arguments Going by the definition of WinMen...

Windows Batch Script Question

So I need a Windows Script that I can tell it a directory to go through and it will parse all sub-directories and while in each subdir, will archive all files with a certain file extension and keep it in the same subdir, then move onto the next one. What's the best way to go about this? Perl Automation Scripting, AutoIt? Any sample cod...

How to get texts in ListBox using AutoIt

I am using Autoit to create an auto-install app. There is an dialog which contains a ListBox control, and in the listbox there are some choices for user (the detailed choices depends on user's machine, for some users there maybe only one choice, for some users there may be 3 choices etc), so I want to get the texts in the listbox to make...

Can AutoIt scripts run as a scheduled task while not logged in?

I am using Ruby/WATIR/AutoIt to automate a task via Task Scheduler which runs fine as long as I am logged in, but as soon as my account is locked (mandated 10 minute screen lock) or I logout the script stops functioning. When I log back in, it is sitting at the part where AutoIt is supposed to handle a file download dialogue by clicking...

AutoIT WinWaitActive issue

Hi all I have a C# application with windows forms, using which I need to automate the opening of a file using an in-house software( mySoftware). I have the following code as below. My understanding is that WinWaitActive() should wait until I click on the in-house software window (mySoftwareWindow) and make it active, before the code mov...

AutoIt Array Error

Func archiveDir($dir) ; Get all the files under the current dir $allOfDir = _FileListToArray($dir) Local $countDirs = 0 Local $countFiles = 0 $imax = UBound($allOfDir) For $i = 0 to $imax - 1 If StringInStr(FileGetAttrib($allOfDir[$i]),"D") Then $countDirs = $countDirs + 1 Else ...

AutoIt scripts runs without error but I can't see archive? - UPDATE

#include <File.au3> #include <Zip.au3> #include <Array.au3> ; bad file extensions Local $extData="ade|adp|app|asa|ashx|asp|bas|bat|cdx|cer|chm|class|cmd|com|cpl|crt|csh|der|exe|fxp|gadget|hlp|hta|htr|htw|ida|idc|idq|ins|isp|its|jse|ksh|lnk|mad|maf|mag|mam|maq|mar|mas|mat|mau|mav|maw|mda|mdb|mde|mdt|mdw|mdz|msc|msh|msh1|msh1xml|msh2|msh2...

AutoIt script not running...

;Tool to archive files with specific extensions grouped by that extension and kept in same file structure ;Will also keep original files in tact ;@Author - Scott Landau ;@Created - 5/23/2010 ;@Last Edited - 5/23/2010 ;Includes #include <File.au3> #include <Array.au3> #include <Zip.au3> ;Globals Local $tempExts="ade|adp|app|asa|ashx|asp...

AutoIt with Firefox

I have several tabs open in Firefox. I want AutoIt to activate a particular tab in Firefox. How can this be done? ...

How to split byte strings with a space in AutoIt?

I would like to split byte strings, for example "AAFF10DC", with spaces, so it becomes "AA FF 10 DC". How to do this in AutoIt (v3)? ...

IE browser doesn't close and file download popup needs focus

Hii all , I am trying to to click on a link after it is active which again produces a popup ( file download) after clicking. Here i have 2 problems 1) I start the code and leave it .what the code does is -after long process -it waits for the link to be active .Once the link is active it clicks on the link and a download popups opens (i...

AutoIt a programming language?

Is AutoIt a programming language? What's the difference between a programming language and a scripting language. AutoIt seems quite complex. There are a lot of things you can do in it. The code can even be compiled into an .exe file. So I don't understand why it wouldn't be considered a programming language. ...

Calling AutoIt Functions in Python

I have seen this post mentioned there is an AutoIt3 COM version, and with it I can call AutoIt functions in Python. I couldn't find the COM version at the AutoIt website. Is it hidden somewhere? How can I get it? ...