Morthawt Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 I am rewriting my string based hotkey program based on what I learned from the experience of writing the first one and want to slim down the user requirement to select between run vs shellexecute. From what I am reading in the manual it looks like shellexecute will do everything I need, run exe, scr, msc everything. Is there really any need for me to use Run function? Free and easy Autoit scripting video tutorials (plus more videos always coming!) General video tutorials, especially correct and safe TeamSpeak permissions tutorials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesAhead Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 (edited) From looking in the help it seems that Run makes it easy to do things like redirect console output of the program being run etc.. ShellExecute is very versatile. I use ShellExecute or ShellExecuteWait for pretty much everything. Edited April 27, 2012 by MilesAhead My Freeware Page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morthawt Posted April 27, 2012 Author Share Posted April 27, 2012 Ok cool, I was going to write in a detection of the extension and decide which to use. But might as well use shell since I can still use parameters in the separate field. Thanks Free and easy Autoit scripting video tutorials (plus more videos always coming!) General video tutorials, especially correct and safe TeamSpeak permissions tutorials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrewManNH Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 One of the reasons to use Run over ShellExecute is that Run returns the PID of the program being run, while shellexecute only returns 1 or 0. Another reason to use Run is if you need to read the stdout/stderror streams of a program, such as a DIR command or a program that outputs data to the command window like Xcopy or RoboCopy. If you don't need these, then ShellExecute should work most of the time. If I posted any code, assume that code was written using the latest release version unless stated otherwise. Also, if it doesn't work on XP I can't help with that because I don't have access to XP, and I'm not going to.Give a programmer the correct code and he can do his work for a day. Teach a programmer to debug and he can do his work for a lifetime - by Chirag GudeHow to ask questions the smart way! I hereby grant any person the right to use any code I post, that I am the original author of, on the autoitscript.com forums, unless I've specifically stated otherwise in the code or the thread post. If you do use my code all I ask, as a courtesy, is to make note of where you got it from. Back up and restore Windows user files _Array.au3 - Modified array functions that include support for 2D arrays. - ColorChooser - An add-on for SciTE that pops up a color dialog so you can select and paste a color code into a script. - Customizable Splashscreen GUI w/Progress Bar - Create a custom "splash screen" GUI with a progress bar and custom label. - _FileGetProperty - Retrieve the properties of a file - SciTE Toolbar - A toolbar demo for use with the SciTE editor - GUIRegisterMsg demo - Demo script to show how to use the Windows messages to interact with controls and your GUI. - Latin Square password generator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morthawt Posted April 29, 2012 Author Share Posted April 29, 2012 Well so far its working perfectly in the new version. Free and easy Autoit scripting video tutorials (plus more videos always coming!) General video tutorials, especially correct and safe TeamSpeak permissions tutorials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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