Running StikyNot.exe

[Rawox]

Hi there!

Why do I get the error (showed in the attachment)

When I run this:

$Path = @WindowsDir & "\System32\StikyNot.exe"
ConsoleWrite ( $Path )
ShellExecute ( $Path )

This is just so weird, I tried it with admin rights and still same problem...

Ow, btw it says it can't find the file but when I go look in the directory it's there! (Image 2)

Please give me an answer, I'm excited!

Rawox.

Edited May 17, 2010 by Rawox

[PsaltyDS]

Care to translate the error message to English? Did it just not find that file, or was it expecting you to pass another file as a parameter?

[Jos]

"Cannot find file ..... Check the name and try again"

Are you running WIN7 X64?

Edited May 17, 2010 by Jos

[GEOSoft]

$path = @SystemDir & "\stikynot.exe"
ShellExecute($path)

Works for me

[Jos]

I get the above error when I run the below on Win7/X64:

#AutoIt3Wrapper_UseX64=n
$Path = @WindowsDir & "\System32\StikyNot.exe"
ConsoleWrite ( $Path )
ShellExecute ( $Path )

[GEOSoft]

I get the above error when I run the below on Win7/X64:

#AutoIt3Wrapper_UseX64=n
$Path = @WindowsDir & "\System32\StikyNot.exe"
ConsoleWrite ( $Path )
ShellExecute ( $Path )

What do you get with @SystemDir instead of @WindowsDir "\system32\"

[Jos]

What do you get with @SystemDir instead of @WindowsDir "\system32\"

When you run in X86 mode the sysdir is: C:\Windows\SysWOW64

[GEOSoft]

When you run in X86 mode the sysdir is: C:\Windows\SysWOW64

Now I'm even more convinced that installing 32 bit was the better way to go. Besides saving on RAM it avoided headaches like this.

[Rawox]

I get the above error when I run the below on Win7/X64:

#AutoIt3Wrapper_UseX64=n
$Path = @WindowsDir & "\System32\StikyNot.exe"
ConsoleWrite ( $Path )
ShellExecute ( $Path )

@SystemDir indeed returns SysWOW64 and I'm on 64bit but this also doesn't work... same error.

And it just says it can't find the file, nothing special about parameters etc.

//EDIT: MSDN Article

//EDIT2: cmd -> stikynot.exe doesn't work.

//EDIT3: Found the problem. In some way it can't run it but if I copy it to another folder (not C:\Windows\System32) then it works

Edited May 17, 2010 by Rawox

[Jos]

There is no x86 version of StickyNot.exe in the SysWOW64 subdir so it will not work when you run it from a x86 program on a X64 OS unless it is made available.

Edited May 17, 2010 by Jos

[Rawox]

So I should make it x64? How to do that within the script (without compiling)?

BTW,

FileCopy ( @WindowsDir & "\System32\StikyNot.exe", @DesktopDir, 1 )

also doesn't work... (returns 0)

Edited May 17, 2010 by Rawox

[Jos]

Have you installed the x64 version of AutoIt3 at installtime? This determines the default.

When you have the SciTE4Autoit3 installer installed you could use the directive I shown in my example and set it to Y.

Jos

[Rawox]

Well... I'm not 100% sure about the 64bit install, I think I chose it...

And I already tried both y and n for #AutoIt3Wrapper_UseX64 although the text (#AutoIt3Wrapper_UseX64) stays black in SciTE

[Jos]

Well... I'm not 100% sure about the 64bit install, I think I chose it...

And I already tried both y and n for #AutoIt3Wrapper_UseX64 although the text (#AutoIt3Wrapper_UseX64) stays black in SciTE

Show me your SciTE console output when you run it.

[Rawox]

>"C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\SciTE\..\autoit3.exe" /ErrorStdOut "D:\Scripts\StickyNoter\StickyNoter.au3"    
0>Exit code: 0  Time: 0.217

[Jos]

>"C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\SciTE\..\autoit3.exe" /ErrorStdOut "D:\Scripts\StickyNoter\StickyNoter.au3"    
0>Exit code: 0  Time: 0.217

This means that you haven't installed the SciTE4AutoIt3 installer which is a prerequisite for the directives to work. Edited May 17, 2010 by Jos

[Rawox]

This means that you haven't installed the SciTE4AutoIt3 installer which is a prerequisite for the directives to work.

Huh? What do you mean, what do I have to do?

[Jos]

Huh? What do you mean, what do I have to do?

look at my signature of each post.

[Jos]

By the way. Have a look at this script for testing: (I hope I defined it correctly)

#Region ;**** Directives created by AutoIt3Wrapper_GUI ****
#AutoIt3Wrapper_UseX64=n
#EndRegion ;**** Directives created by AutoIt3Wrapper_GUI ****
;Works when run on x64 OS in x64 mode
;Works when run on x86 OS
$Path = @WindowsDir & "\System32\StikyNot.exe"
ConsoleWrite ( $Path & @CRLF)
ShellExecute ( $Path )
;Works when run on x64 OS in x64 mode
;Works when run on x86 OS
$Path = @SystemDir & "\StikyNot.exe"
ConsoleWrite ( $Path & @CRLF)
ShellExecute ( $Path )
;Works when run on x64 OS in x86 mode
$Path = @WindowsDir & "\Sysnative\StikyNot.exe"
ConsoleWrite ( $Path & @CRLF)
ShellExecute ( $Path )

[Rawox]

Thanks Jos,

Sorry I was being stupid, I thought it was automatically installed with AutoIt.

This works now:

#AutoIt3Wrapper_UseX64=y
$Path = @WindowsDir & "\System32\StikyNot.exe"
ConsoleWrite ( $Path )
ShellExecute ( $Path )

Edited May 17, 2010 by Rawox