Parameters between executable

[moscas]

sorry for my English

I wonder if there is a function to enable the passing of parameters between executables (eg batch dos variables are made with% 1% 2% 3 etc.)

[Varian]

If you mean starting another program/script from another script that's what Run and ShellExecute do already. eg

Run('regedit.exe /s "' @TempDir & '\regfile.reg"')

"/s" and "@Tempdir\regfile.reg" are paramters for regedit.exe or

ShellExecute(@MyDocumentsDir & '\wordfile.doc', '', '', 'open')

passes "@MyDocumentsDir\wordfilefile.doc" to the default handler for the .doc extension with the verb "open" as opposed to say "print"

Edited September 21, 2010 by Varian

[Juvigy]

From the help file:

Command Line Parameters

The special array $CmdLine is initialized with the command line parameters passed in to your AutoIt script. Note the scriptname is not classed as a parameter; get this information with @ScriptName instead. A parameter that contains spaces must be surrounded by "double quotes". Compiled scripts accept command line parameters in the same way.

$CmdLine[0] is number of parameters

$CmdLine[1] is param 1 (after the script name)

$CmdLine[2] is param 2 etc

...

$CmdLine[$CmdLine[0]] is one way to get the last parameter...

So if your script is run like this:

AutoIt3.exe myscript.au3 param1 "this is another param"

$CmdLine[0] equals... 2

$CmdLine[1] equals... param1

$CmdLine[2] equals... this is another param

@ScriptName equals... myscript.au3

In addition to $CmdLine there is a variable called $CmdLineRaw that contains the entire command line unsplit, so for the above example:

$CmdLineRaw equals... myscript.au3 param1 "this is another param"

If the script was compiled it would have been run like this:

myscript.exe param1 "this is another param"

$CmdLineRaw equals... param1 "this is another param"

Note that $CmdLineRaw just return the parameters.

Note : only 63 parameters can be return by $CmdLine[...], but $CmdLineRaw will always returns the entire command line.

[moscas]

If you mean starting another program/script from another script that's what Run and ShellExecute do already. eg

Run('regedit.exe /s "' @TempDir & '\regfile.reg"')

"/s" and "@Tempdir\regfile.reg" are paramters for regedit.exe or

ShellExecute(@MyDocumentsDir & '\wordfile.doc', '', '', 'open')

passes "@MyDocumentsDir\wordfilefile.doc" to the default handler for the .doc extension with the verb "open" as opposed to say "print"

ok, this is correct, but if I wanted to run an executable AutoIt variable settings that must pass before the executable?

es.

one.exe

two.exe

$Myname = "moscas"
ShellExecute (@scriptdir & "\two.exe",'','', $myname)

msgbox (0, "Test", "Your Name is" & ????)

Edited September 21, 2010 by moscas

[Juvigy]

Code1

$Myname = "moscas"
ShellExecute (@scriptdir & "\two.exe"&''&$myname)

Code2

msgbox (0, $CmdLineRaw, "Your Name is:" & $CmdLine[1])

[moscas]

if i run one.exe:

Can't find "c:\autoit\mydoc\test01\two.exemoscas"

[Juvigy]

Change this . The space between two.exe and myname was missing

ShellExecute (@scriptdir & "\two.exe"&' '&$myname)

[moscas]

always equal

Can't find "c:\autoit\mydoc\test01\two.exe moscas"

sorry but I can not understand how it work ... there are months that I bang my head ...perhaps wrong to declare variables in two.exe?

EDIT:

found!!!

one.exe

$myname = "moscas"
ShellExecute (@scriptdir & "\two.exe",$myname)

two.exe

msgbox (0, $CmdLineRaw, "Your Name is:" & $CmdLine[1])

for must

one.exe

$myname = "moscas"
$secondname = "second"
ShellExecute (@scriptdir & "\two.exe",$myname & ' ' &$secondname)

two.exe

msgbox (0, $CmdLineRaw, "Your Name is:" & $CmdLine[1])
msgbox (0, $CmdLineRaw, "Your Second Name is:" & $CmdLine[2])

Edited September 21, 2010 by moscas

[Juvigy]

Ah yes , forgot to change shellexecute to Runcmd...

[moscas]

perfect, and now, how can I handle the @error if the variable $ CmdLine [1] is not readable? (Eg running two.exe double click instead of it run by one.exe?)

[Juvigy]

Maybe :

If $CmdLine[0]<>0 Then msgbox (0, $CmdLineRaw, "Your Name is:" & $CmdLine[1])