Batch File Problem

[Ambient]

Hi Guys,

I have been messing about with a little script that accepts a parameter which is the name of a batch file (any batch file in C:\batch) which the script will then run showing a progress bar until cmd.exe closes. I haven't quite finished it but I was using a batch file which pings google for testing and I noticed the when my script finishes cmd.exe gets closed but ping.exe remains open in processes. My problem is how can i determine what processs get opened by the batch file? I was thinking of perhaps getting all running processes at the start of the script into an array the when I run the batch file doing the same then compareing to get the differnces. When I have the differences closing them when the script finishes. Just my thoughts but there is probably an easier way to do this. The reasn I want to do this is we use quite a few batch files historically and it would be nice notto have to re-write then but run them hidden rather then have them showing CMd windows all over the place.

[hannes08]

Hi Ambient,

take a look at the entry from SmOke_N He has a code snippet to get the child processes.

Anyway I'd suggest you to rewrite the batchs.

E.g. for pinging you could simply use ping() in a loop.

[Ambient]

Thanks Hannes I'll check it out and if I had my way I'd rewrite the lot loL! All in good ole autoit!