close atuoit application

[zxcvbnm]

XP, local user too.

[Juvigy]

Then there is no sense. Are the timer and the other exe file in the same folder?

[zxcvbnm]

yes and I write the path correctly!

[Juvigy]

Then lets try a different approach.

Make the timer app check for a registry key value.

If value is 1 - close timer. Something like this pseudo code:

$test = RegWrite(Value = 2)

While $test = 2

Sleep(1000)

$test = Regread(value)

"put here your current timer code".

Wend

The second file instead of Processclose do a RegWrite(Value = 1).

@edit - added a sleep

Edited February 10, 2011 by Juvigy

[zxcvbnm]

compile error:

C:\Documents and Settings\murdoccaa\Desktop\count10.au3(47,23) : ERROR: syntax error

$test = RegWrite(Value=

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^

C:\Documents and Settings\murdoccaa\Desktop\count10.au3(51,26) : ERROR: syntax error

$test = RegRead(Value)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^

C:\Documents and Settings\murdoccaa\Desktop\count10.au3(51,26) : ERROR: RegRead() [built-in] called with wrong number of args.

$test = RegRead(Value)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^

C:\Documents and Settings\murdoccaa\Desktop\count10.au3 - 3 error(s), 0 warning(s)

[Juvigy]

This is pseudo code - check the syntax of the Regread and Regwrite functions in the help file

[BrewManNH]

You could have the timer.exe program do a ProcessExists on the calling program, so when the calling program closes, if it doesn't see that process any longer it closes itself.

[zxcvbnm]

This is pseudo code - check the syntax of the Regread and Regwrite functions in the help file

ok but wich registry key to write to?

[hannes08]

Hey zxcvbnm,

You'll have to define the registry key yourself. For a user can write any registry key unter "HKCU" (HKey_CURRENT_USER).

E.g. just create a new Key and Value under HKCU\Software\zxcvbnm

Regards,

Hannes

[iAmNewbe]

I am trying to do something similar. ProcessClose() works but it is a brutal close it doesn't close nicely.

I have an application written in autoIT3 that is running from notification tray and I want to be able to close this application from a second autoIT3 application.

I have to process name and can use ProcessClose but I want to know if there is a cleaner way such as sending a command directly to the first application and once received would run a predefined function which would do some cleanup and then nicely exit the application. I don't really want to continually check the registery or a ini file entry I just want to send a command to the running application that it will listen for and then run a function. How can I do that?

[iAmNewbe]

Until I figure out communicating with an already running AutoIT application I did the following:

If ProcessExists("closeMyApp.exe") Then
    doExit()
EndIf

I put that in my application I want to close and then I created a new application called closeMyApp.exe which all I have in it is sleep(500) to keep it open long enough for my main application to see it. You should place the above code in a While Loop or else it will only check ONCE at start up of main application which if it did find that exe running would just start then stop the main app which is not good.