General Autoit3X question

[JohnOne 1,603]

Have you ever had one of those moments where you have a thought, a moment of clarity. then as quick as it happend its gone again?

Well I did earlier today and I spent a while trying to invoke the thought again, unsucsessfuly.

All I remember was I wondered if you could call functions from Autoit3X.dll from within a regular AU3 script, and I think the thought was how such a thing could be useful.

So my question is can you think of a scenario where it might be useful?

I hope I'm making sense.

Edited August 23, 2010 by JohnOne

[Richard Robertson 187]

Considering AutoItX can't do anything that raw AutoIt can't, I'd have to say no.

Edited August 23, 2010 by Richard Robertson

[trancexx 1,013]

@JohnOne, Something like this?

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Global $sAutoItX = RegRead("HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\AutoIt v3\Autoit", "InstallDir") & "\AutoItX\AutoItX3_x64.dll"
ConsoleWrite("-> File is: " & $sAutoItX & @CRLF)


Global $oAutoIt = ObjCreate("AutoItX3.Control")
If Not IsObj($oAutoIt) Then
    _SomeCoolRegisterFunc($sAutoItX)
    $oAutoIt = ObjCreate("AutoItX3.Control")
EndIf

If Not IsObj($oAutoIt) Then
    MsgBox(48 + 262144, "Ahh!", "Something is wrong. God knows what.")
    Exit -1
EndIf

; THIS...
$oAutoIt.ToolTip("This is some tip from AutoItX version " & $oAutoIt.Version & @LF & "Visible enough?")
$oAutoIt.Sleep(2000)
$oAutoIt.ToolTip("")
$oAutoIt.ToolTip("Bye bye now...")
$oAutoIt.Sleep(800)



; Functions:
Func _SomeCoolRegisterFunc($sModule)
    If IsAdmin() Then Return _RegisterServer($sModule)
    Local $sShellExecuteString = ' /AutoIt3ExecuteLine ' & _
            '"Exit (' & _
            'DllCall(''ole32.dll'', ''long'', ''OleInitialize'', ''ptr'', 0) & ' & _
            'DllCall(''' & $sModule & ''', ''long'', ''DllRegisterServer'')' & _
            ')"'
    ShellExecuteWait('"' & @AutoItExe & '"', $sShellExecuteString, "", "runas", @SW_HIDE)
EndFunc   ;==>_SomeRegisterFunc

Func _RegisterServer($sDll)
    Local $fInit, $fError
    Local $aCall = DllCall("ole32.dll", "long", "OleInitialize", "ptr", 0)
    If Not @error Then $fInit = $aCall[0] <> 1 ; The COM library is already initialized
    $aCall = DllCall($sDll, "long", "DllRegisterServer")
    If @error Then $fError = True
    If $fInit Then DllCall("ole32.dll", "none", "OleUninitialize")
    If $fError Then Return SetError(2, 0, False)
    Return SetError($aCall[0] <> 0, $aCall[0], $aCall[0] = 0)
EndFunc   ;==>_RegisterServer

Btw, that's dumb. You know why?

[JohnOne 1,603]

is it because its using the interpreter to make the call, and so its just plain slower that doing it normally?

My thought probably disappeard because it was stupid really, so its probably for the best I dont recall it.