Well that seems to work wonderfully. Good to know as well. Thanks for your help
-Tom Timothy Johnson wrote: > > Actually, the patch files themselves have switches that will suppress > rebooting. I think for most of them the switch is "/r:n". > > -----Original Message----- > From: macnerd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 9:02 AM > To: 'Tom Bryan'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: pass keystrokes > > You need to get Win32::GuiTest to put in keystrokes on click on > buttons. There was even a recent article in the Febuary edition > of Windows Developer. I managed to grab a copy from Borders before > they resorted their magazines. > > Check out these URLs for more information: > > Install and Binaries -> http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/E/ER/ERNGUI > Documentation, etc. -> http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Win32-GuiTest > Yahoo Group/Mailinglist -> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/perlguitest/files > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > > Behalf Of Tom > > Bryan > > Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 7:32 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: pass keystrokes > > > > > > Hi guys, > > I have written a perl script, called from a .bat file > > invoked at logon > > and it basically looks through a list of Microsoft OS patches based on > > OSbuild and then looks in the registry to see if the machine has the > > patch. This all works fine and if you dont have the patch > > well it does > > a system call to run the "somepatch.exe" install script from > > Microsoft. > > The problem is that I need to pass a "no" to the reboot message popup > > window because a "yes" causes the dos window to fail and give an error > > message....make sense? So my question is this, how can I pass a > > keystroke to the active window either in the login.bat or the perl > > script, without wrapping everything inside a scriptit type program? > > > > Any suggestions? > > -Thanks > > > > Tom Bryan > > College of Engineering > > Network Services > > Auburn University > > _______________________________________________ > > Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs > > > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This email may contain confidential and privileged > material for the sole use of the intended recipient. > If you are not the intended recipient, please contact > the sender and delete all copies. _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
