Need Help Building Function

[AutoitNew94]

I need some help building a function that watches for certain processes to start, and

certain folders or files to open and then runs another program when this occurs.

I started off doing...

While 1
If WinActive("TEST1") Then MsgBox(0,"","TEST1 Window Was Opened")
If WinActive("TEST2") Then MsgBox(0,"","TEST2 Window Was Opened")
If WinActive("TEST3") Then MsgBox(0,"","TEST3 Window Was Opened")

If ProcessExists("firefox.exe") Then MsgBox(0,"","FireFox Was Opened")
If ProcessExists("notepad.exe") Then MsgBox(0,"","NotePad Was Opened")

Sleep(100)
WEnd

...which is an obvious mess and only works if one of the folders or processes is open.

So, if Firefox is running and then TEST1 is opened it does not recognize that TEST1 was

opened until FireFox closes.

I found this script through this forum, and played with it a bit, but I am still new to

Autoit and have not been able to modify it to fit my needs.

Dim $aWins[4] = ['', 'notepad.exe', 'calc.exe', 'firefox.exe']
_WinWaitMultiProcess($aWins, 5)

Func _WinWaitMultiProcess($aArray, $nTime = 0)
    If IsArray($aArray) = 0 Then Return SetError(1, 0, 0)
    Local $iTimer = TimerInit()
    While 1
        Sleep(100)
        For $iCC = 1 To UBound($aArray) -1
            If ProcessExists($aArray[$iCC]) Then Return $aArray[$iCC]
        Next
        If $nTime And (TimerDiff($iTimer) / -1) >= $nTime Then Return SetError(2, 0, 0)
    WEnd
EndFunc

In short I need a function that runs an infinite loop watching for folders and processes and then runs a program every time that happens. I do not want the script to exit.

Thank you, any and all help is appreciated.

Edited March 1, 2011 by AutoitNew94

[Xenobiologist]

Hii,

what process you are looking for?

How do you detect the the folder stuff? Is it a window that appears? A title of a window?

How do you do that without Autoit?

Mega

[kylomas]

autoitnew94,

You are not returning from the "if processexists" because of the msgbox (blocking function).

As for the folders, do a forum search on folder modification. There was recently a lengthly post regarding folder change detection.

kylomas

[AutoitNew94]

Hii,

what process you are looking for?

How do you detect the the folder stuff? Is it a window that appears? A title of a window?

How do you do that without Autoit?

Mega

Hi Xenobiologist thank you for the reply.

I am looking for the process name so when Firefox.exe and or Notepad.exe etc... starts the script executes some other code.

The folders are detected by the window title name.

Thanks.

[AutoitNew94]

autoitnew94,

You are not returning from the "if processexists" because of the msgbox (blocking function).

As for the folders, do a forum search on folder modification. There was recently a lengthly post regarding folder change detection.

kylomas

Thank you for the reply kylomas I just found the post. There are a few things within the post for other parts of the script that present themselves useful for the creation deletion and modifying of files which I will add to this topic.

Again thank you.

Could you give an example of returning from msgbox box while it is still open.

This I am searching now.

[kylomas]

autoitnew94,

msgbox has a timeout parm (see doc). I find it way more convenient to use consolewrite for debugging messages.

kylomas

[AutoitNew94]

autoitnew94,

msgbox has a timeout parm (see doc). I find it way more convenient to use consolewrite for debugging messages.

kylomas

kylomas,

Thank you again.

So question I have now is in this script how am I to exit the While loop correctly

I tried messing around with the EndLoop, and for obvious reasons this script

does not work properly but something along these lines, and preferably built

into a functions, again thank you.

While 1
Sleep(100)
If WinActive("TEST1") Then 
    Run("calc.exe")
ElseIf WinActive("TEST2") Then
    Run("notepad.exe")
    EndIf
WEnd

[kylomas]

autoitnew94,

use "exitloop" to leave loop or "exit" to terminate script. These depend on some logical condition that you determine based on your app.

kylomas