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[paede]

How can i send text to the command prompt if the hotkey script is started from the command line?

[BoBo]

What d'you wanna do? FTP-Login? Enter parameters/switches??

[paede]

no i want to start my script with parameter in the command prompt and if no parameter is given, the the script should output an error to the command line.

[BoBo]

Peade wrote:

[MYYM]

[Chris]

Since there's no direct way for a script to send text to the command prompt it was started from, you might also consider showing a MsgBox in cases like these.

[jonny]

You could also look into the OutputDebug command, which provides similar functionality to stderr.

[Decarlo110]

Solution:

Example 1:

SetTitleMatchMode, 2
CoordMode, Mouse, Relative
run cmd.exe
WinWaitActive cmd.exe
clipboard=rem: The script was called (your text goes here).`r
MouseClick, R, 100, 100,,0
return

Example 2:

SetTitleMatchMode, 2
CoordMode, Mouse, Relative
ifWinExist cmd.exe
WinActivate
else run cmd.exe
WinWaitActive cmd.exe
MouseGetPos, xCmd, yCmd
clipboard=rem: The script was called.`rprompt $d$s$t$s$p$g`rcd.. & cd.. && color 1b`rtitle AutoHotkey-compatible prompt`rrem: Example 2 successful.`r
MouseClick, R, 100, 100,,0
MouseMove, xCmd, yCmd, 0
return
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