How to use autoit inside Qt

thegr8awais

Hi
i am new to Qt.
I want to know how we can use autoit inside Qt?

mrjj

Hi and welcome
Use inside in what way?
AutoIT is a language and there is no Qt bindings so if you mean if you can
run autoit scripts that use Qt objects, the answer is no.

You can easy start and control Autoit scripts from Qt application but
its not inside.

thegr8awais

i mean i can use Autoit Function inside qt
It's a c++ framwork so there should be any way
like this post here

or like this
https://automation-home.blogspot.com/2015/06/java-and-autoit-automating-calculator-application.html

mrjj

Well it says
"AutoItX4Java uses JACOB to access AutoItX through COM"

So its a binding that calls Autoit via its com interface.
You can do the same in c++.
Qt has classes for COM
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/activeqt-container.html
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/activeqt-index.html

Can I ask why you want to mix it with Qt ?
AutoIT has GUI controls that are well integrated.

thegr8awais

I want to use qt interface.

And Autoit just for automation

We can do automation with qt ? is there any way ?
I mean for example we want to Install a software
We can automate that installation ?

mrjj

@thegr8awais

The activeX COM object allows that.
I have never used it but seen samples in C#
Thats allow for all features that running AutoIT normally offers.

But mind you, the feedback might be more difficult as AutoIt code will not likely be able to
address Qt widgets directly.

"We can automate that installation ?"
Do you mean by starting the installer and press buttons as the user would?

thegr8awais

Do you mean by starting the installer and press buttons as the user would?

Yes

mrjj

@thegr8awais
Yes, that works as just using AutoIT.
But do u really need tight integration ?
You could just compile the scripts to .exe and
use QProcess to execute them with the parameters you want/need.

thegr8awais

Thank you very much for your time.
Just last question
How to automate software with QT as AutoIT does ?
Is there any tutorial for that ?
or any book

mrjj

@thegr8awais said in how to use autoit inside QT:
No problem :)

How to automate software with QT as AutoIT does ?

Its using native windows API calls to find and talk to the controls
like
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms633500(v=vs.85).aspx
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms644944(v=vs.85).aspx

Its not a small task to get as far as AutoIT.