How to make your script take in parameters?

[sleepydvdr]

A while back I ran across a UDF (and have been trying to find it again but cannot) that allowed your autoit executable to take in a parameter. This particular UDF was to hide your source code inside your executable. It worked like this...

Double click your executable MyProgram.exe and it works like normal.

Run your executable by passing a switch like this:

MyProgram.exe -extractsourcecode

and that would run FileInstall of your embedded .au3 to a predetermined location (desktop).

I'm not trying to embed source code. I want to be able to make my executable to act differently with different switches passed to it. Any ideas? Thanks!

[whim]

See Help file -> Using AutoIt -> Command Line Parameters

[sleepydvdr]

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. It took me a little bit to figure it out, so here's an example script I just wrote to help others who may have trouble figuring it out.

If $CmdLineRaw = "-option1" Then
    MsgBox (0, "", "Your chose the first option")
ElseIf $CmdLineRaw = "-option2" Then
    MsgBox (0, "", "The second option was chosen.")
Else
    MsgBox (0, "", "You either used a parameter that is not recognized or ran the executable directly.")
EndIf

Basically, $CmdLineRaw is a built in function that retrieves what typed in after the script/executable's name.

Thanks again for your help.

[NiVZ]

Hello,

I prefer to check if $cmdline[0] <> 0 Then Loop through all the rows in the $cmdline array

NiVZ