Using one script to run another.

[Mikeman27294]

Hello everyone... name says it all. Does anybody know of a way in which you can use one script to run another? I know two scripts can be run at the same time, so long as you manually run the second one atleast, with the autoit program provided in the autoit install directory. Is there any way which I can send parameters to this executable so that it runs the program without asking for me to select a file to run, becuase I am nearly certain that I have seen this just now with somebody else's script (but I dont want to go off topic on their board, and PMing is not allowed).

Thanks people.

[Melba23]

Mikeman27294,

Look in the Help file under <Using Autoit - Command Line Parameters> and you will see how to run scripts from within other scripts while passing parameters to it.

M23

[Mikeman27294]

So it would be something like one of these?

Autoit.exe Script.au3

or

AutoIT.exe & Script.au3

Thanks.

Edited June 18, 2011 by Mikeman27294

[Melba23]

Mikeman27294,

If you have already compiled the script then you can use Run as with any other executable.

The first example you have used is for use with standard .au3 scripts - the second is not correct.

M23

[sleepydvdr]

Why not use #include <script.au3>?

Include it at the point that you want to run the script.

[Melba23]

sleepydvdr,

Why not use #include <script.au3>?

Because that merely inserts the code of the second file into your script at that point. The OP wants to run the script externally - and it may do something completely unconnected with the original script.

M23

[Mikeman27294]

Thanks people.

And the reason that I do not include the script is because I want to have this like an extremely lightweight script editor, an my school has cracked on to me using scite because it looks like an IDE and they dont want me to get harrassed by other students over it and so on, but I dont want to be running the autoit3.exe program from it's root directory becuase it takes forever to get to, so it would be much quicker to get it to run from the program. I think I have it figured out now though, thanks guys.

EDIT

Ok, I tried this and it didnt work

Run("AutoIt3.Exe" & $ScriptPath)

$Scriptpath is a predifined variable, and I even compiled the program to make sure it worked, but it didnt.

Edited June 18, 2011 by Mikeman27294

[Melba23]

Mikeman27294,

Create and compile these 2 files:

; Parent.au3

ConsoleWrite(1 & @CRLF)
Run("Child.exe 1")

ConsoleWrite(2 & @CRLF)
Run("Parent.exe /AutoIt3ExecuteScript Child.au3 2")

ConsoleWrite(3 & @CRLF)
Run("Parent.exe /AutoIt3ExecuteScript Child.au3 3")

; ------------------

; Child.au3

MsgBox(0,"Hi!", "Child here with " & $CmdLine[1])

Then run Parent both from SciTE and compiled and you will see what works when.

M23

P.S. And then please go to this thread and let me know why you are using a "INTERNAL USE ONLY" function in my GUIFrame UDF!

[Mikeman27294]

Yep, that worked. I might then try bumping it up to run a selected file then?

[Melba23]

Mikeman27294,

I might then try bumping it up to run a selected file then?

If I had any idea of what you mean I might be able to offer an opinion.

Please try to explain your questions more clearly so that we can understand what you are asking - it gets a bit difficult responding to the short staccato phrases you tend to use.

Remember that I can only work on what I think you mean, not what you think you told me!

M23

[Mikeman27294]

Fair enough. What I meant was that I get an open dialoge, and select my file. The path is assigned to a variable, which is included in the script. Like this:

; Parent.au3
Local $OpenPath = FileOpenDialog("Open File", @UserProfileDir, "All Files (*.*)|AutoIt v3 Script (*.au3)|Text (*.txt)")
ConsoleWrite(1 & @CRLF)
Run("Child.exe 1")

ConsoleWrite(2 & @CRLF)
Run("Parent.exe /AutoIt3ExecuteScript " & $OpenPath & " 2")

ConsoleWrite(3 & @CRLF)
Run("Parent.exe /AutoIt3ExecuteScript Child.au3 3")

; ------------------

; Child.au3

;MsgBox(0,"Hi!", "Child here with " & $CmdLine[1])

So pretty much, the second one runs a selected file. (You may have noticed by the way that I commented out the last line, this is because the array $CmdLine[1] didnt want to work and I wasnt exactly sure where it was meant to get it's data from, but it ran smoothly without that) The only problem now, is that it is not running the includes aswell, but I will try changing the program's running directory, so it would be like this;

Run("Parent.exe /AutoIt3ExecuteScript " & $OpenPath & " 2", C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\Include)

I will give this a try my self just before I start asking whether it would work or not though.

EDIT

Nope, that didnt work. I will try changing the includes then, to paths.

EDIT 2

Yep... that worked. What I might do then is set all my programs like that... wow fun, but atleast it will work.

Thanks for helping out here.

Edited June 18, 2011 by Mikeman27294