"No Keyword with name" error while using AutoIt Library Robot Framework

Question

Got an error encountered "No keyword name" error in AutoIt Library Robot Framework. I installed the AutoIt Library by using pip install and it was successful. I tried to automate input text in the Open Dialog Window to upload some file using AutoIt Library, but it won't run the keyword from AutoIt, it shows No keyword name.

Here is my code :

*** Settings ***
Documentation This is the script for Create Sales Visit Repository
Library AutoItLibrary
*** Test Cases ***
Input Text
 Send C:\Users\ruela\Documents\Different images format\BMP.bmp

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Or anything that can suggest uploading a file using robot framework, it's ok, since the Choose File from selenium library cannot be used because of the open dialog window is not related to the web application.

• PDHide: Please show the code you have written
• Ru eL: *** Settings *** Documentation This is the script for Create Sales Visit Repository Library AutoItLibrary *** Test Cases *** Input Text Send C:\Users\ruela\Documents\Different images format\BMP.bmp
• PDHide: put that in your question please, whatever you have tried and what error you are getting
• pavelsaman: Is your AutoItLibrary library in red.xml file?
• PDHide: @Rule put your error message also. A proper stack trace could give more information than you could imagine. When ever you post debugging issues keep the error log, your code, and the expected output.

Answer 1

Updated:

Even I faced the issue in recent versions of auto it and python:

Fix:

Check your python architecture ( is it 32 or 64 bit)

Just type python and see

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For 32:

1. Open cmd in "Run as administrator" mode
2. run the command pip install robotframework-autoitlibrary
3. Now clone the autoit library source code: nokia/robotframework-autoitlibrary.
4. in the root directory run the below command: python setup.py install using cmd in admin mode

to navigate to root directory use the command pushd <filepath>' instead of cd ` if cd doesn't work in cmd opened in admin mode.

For 64:

1. Open cmd in "Run as administrator" mode
2. Now clone the autoit library source code: nokia/robotframework-autoitlibrary.
3. in the root directory run the below command: python setup.py install using cmd in admin mode

to navigate to root directory use the command pushd <filepath>' instead of cd ` if cd doesn't work in cmd opened in admin mode.

You can install 64 bit python at:

Install 64-bit python , the default version is 32 so you ahve to downlad the 64 bit download file from: Python Releases for Windows

and download Windows x86-64 executable installer

and install it.

Check if 64 bit is installed:

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Your code works fine for me :

Installed package :

Open cmd in "Run as administrator mode" and run below command

pip install robotframework-autoitlibrary

test.robot

*** Settings ***
Documentation This is the script for Create Sales Visit Repository
Library AutoItLibrary
*** Test Cases ***
Input Text
 Send C:\\Users\\ruela\\Documents\\Different images format\\BMP.bmp

Ran as

robot test.robot

• Ru eL: Hi, Thanks for this. By the way, what python version did you use? I used Python 37, but I still got the "No Keyword" error once I tried you script to run on my side. I have installed the autoitlibrary using pip and was successful. I'm not sure if this is related to the specific version of python.
• PDHide: @RueL see if only one python is installed or even python 2 is present in your system
• PDHide: @RueL which ide are you using ? I ran it from cmd
• Ru eL: I ran also in cmd. I just copy your code and follow the command robot test.robot
• PDHide: @RueL sorry for the confusion , i was able to fix the issue . The issue was due to auotIt.dll was not registering automatically