RunWait

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Runs an external program and pauses script execution until the program finishes.

RunWait ( "filename" [, "workingdir" [, flag]] )

Parameters:

filename:	The name of the executable (EXE, BAT, COM, PIF) to run.
workingdir:	[optional] The working directory.
flag:	[optional] The "show" flag of the executed program:
	@SW_HIDE = Hidden window
	@SW_MINIMIZE = Minimized window
	@SW_MAXIMIZE = Maximized window

Return Value:

Success: Returns the exit code of the program that was run.

Failure: Depends on RunErrorsFatal; see Remarks.

Remarks:

To run DOS commands, try RunWait(@ComSpec & " /c " & "commandName")

After running the requested program the script pauses until the program terminates. To run a program and then immediately continue script execution use the Run function instead.

Some programs will appear to return immediately even though they are still running; these programs spawn another process - you may be able to use the ProcessWaitClose function to handle these cases.

By default the script will terminate with a fatal error if the Run function fails. To set @error to 1 as an indication of failure, see AutoItSetOption.