Use arguments to open program

[Darckalan]

I want my script to be able to run ONLY if it ran with an argument.

example: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Phant0m Test Apps\run.exe" -LaunchApp

And if it's ran without arguments, start another program("C:\Program Files (x86)\Phant0m Test Apps\loader.exe")

[guinness]

I would look in Help File for >> Commandline Arguments or the Forum >>

If you want more Examples use the Keyword $CmdLine.

An Example to have a look through.

#include <Array.au3>

_ArrayDisplay($CmdLine)
_CmdLine()
Func _CmdLine()
    If $CmdLine[0] > 0 Then
        For $A = 1 To $CmdLine[0]
            Select
                Case $CmdLine[$A] = "-LaunchApp"
                    _Debug($CmdLine[$A])
                Case $CmdLine[$A] = "-file"
                    _Debug($CmdLine[$A])
                    $A += 1
                    _Debug($CmdLine[$A])
            EndSelect
        Next
        Exit
    EndIf
EndFunc   ;==>_CmdLine

Func _Debug($A)
    MsgBox(0, "_CmdLine", $A)
EndFunc   ;==>_Debug

Edited February 3, 2011 by guinness

[GEOSoft]

See Running Scripts in the help file. Basicly it will go something like this.

If $CmdLine[0] < 1 Then
    $sApp = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Phant0m Test Apps\run.exe" 
    ShellExecute($sApp, "-LaunchApp")
    Exit
EndIf
;;  The rest of your code goes below here

[Darckalan]

If $CMDLINE[0] <> 1 Then 
    Run("Patcher.exe")
    EXIT
EndIf

Can that work too?

[guinness]

$CMDLINE[0] <> 0 is better as it means that if a CmdLine is specified e.g. "Test.exe -acmdargument" then Run the specified program. But anything can be specified right now, if you want to be more specific then look at my example above as $CmdLine is an Array, so by looping through the Array Items you can see what arguments were specified.

[Darckalan]

ah! Got it

Thanks for the help!