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AutoIT help with running .bat files?

I am very new to AutoIT but it looks like an interesting tool to use so I thought I would give it a try. I am wanting to create a menu with 4 buttons that when clicked will just point to 4 different bat files depending on which button is clicked. The bat files should be able to finish the installs for what I am wanting so I'm pretty sure that's all I need from AutoIT is just to create the menu and the buttons. How do you point the button to a specific bat file.

matrixnz

Run(@ComSpec & ' /C <Batch File Name>', '', @SW_HIDE)

matrixnz

More complete example

GUICreate('My App', 400, 20)
$Button1 = GUICtrlCreateButton('Button 1', 0, 0, 100, 20)
$Button2 = GUICtrlCreateButton('Button 2', 100, 0, 100, 20)
$Button3 = GUICtrlCreateButton('Button 3', 200, 0, 100, 20)
$Button4 = GUICtrlCreateButton('Button 4', 300, 0, 100, 20)
GUISetState()

While 1
	$msg = GUIGetMsg()
	Select
		Case $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
			ExitLoop
		Case $msg = $Button1
			Run(@ComSpec & ' /C <Batch File 1 Name>.bat', '', @SW_HIDE)
		Case $msg = $Button2
			Run(@ComSpec & ' /C <Batch File 2 Name>.bat', '', @SW_HIDE)
		Case $msg = $Button3
			Run(@ComSpec & ' /C <Batch File 3 Name>.bat', '', @SW_HIDE)
		Case $msg = $Button4
			Run(@ComSpec & ' /C <Batch File 4 Name>.bat', '', @SW_HIDE)
	EndSelect
WEnd

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gimosuby

If I were you I'd convert the bat files to AutoIT as wel. Take a look a the AutoIT help file, it's very elaborate..