Control several scripts with a main application

[trapbite]

Hello!

I am new to AutoIt and I am developing some monitor tools to monitor a specific application (disk monitors, http monitor, process monitor and screen monitor).

At this point I have everything done but I developed this 4 applications separately and I am trying to include them in a whole AutoIt script which would control each one of the monitors.

Just some basic info :

1. each monitor has a different sleeping delay : how long should wait to gather more info

2. each monitor writes data to different files regarding a specified structure (e.g. log/MonitoredApplication/monitorAppName/log_timestamp.txt)

3. each monitor is developed in a separate au3 script with one main function (the monitor loop itself)

My scripts look like these :

Func DiskMonitor() 
   While True
    DumpDiskInfo()
    Sleep(DISK_MONITOR_DELAY)
   WEnd
EndFunc

Func HttpMonitor() 
   While True
    DumpHttpInfo()
    Sleep(HTTP_MONITOR_DELAY)
   WEnd
EndFunc

Ideally I could launch 1 thread for each monitor but it seems that there is no multi-thread support for AutoIt (I searched in this forum and I could not find it) so basically my solution is to code a scheduler to coordinate all this functions or do you have any other ideas ?

Some other questions :

1. Is there some tool that gathers all the setupudf header of each function like javadoc for autoit ?

2. The function listings that I see in the UDF threads are done manually or do you have a automatic way to generate them ?

3. how do you usually manage the versions ?

Thank you in advance,

trapbite

Edited March 26, 2010 by trapbite

[BrettF]

How long does the dump take?

Is there a problem with going:

while 1

DiskMonitor()

httpmonitor()

processmonitor()

...

wend

Which would be a 100 times easier to do?

[99ojo]

Hi,

reading the thread, i'am thinking about the adlib functions.

Wouldn't it be a solution as well?

;-))

Stefan

[BrettF]

Actually Adlib would be perfect?

AdlibRegister ("function", 250)

AdlibRegister ("function2", 250)

AdlibRegister ("function3", 250)

AdlibRegister ("function4", 250)

[trapbite]

How long does the dump take?

Is there a problem with going:

while 1

DiskMonitor()

httpmonitor()

processmonitor()

...

wend

Which would be a 100 times easier to do?

Yes because since each monitor has a different delay they will not run at the same time and this is a requirement.

[BrettF]

What is so important about it running at the same time? In the end it is executed one after another so whats the diff?