123 guide help - Exiting scripts

[BenjaminAlvarado]

Hello again!

I have found myself in a predicament. probably a rookie mistake

how do I cancel/stop a script that I started to run before it has run its course?

Example, I was playing with Run functions and writing texts in notepad. I made it run for 3.4 hours dont ask me why. . . . got happy with scripting!

Now I dont knwo how to stop it? I saved my scripts and deleted the file, but it still keeps going. . . . . its haunted I Tell ya. . .

so how do I turn on a script that would run for a long time but interrupt it and stop it at will?

In anticipation of this I Removed the blockedInput from the start and end of the script, but that doesn't do anything. . . .

thanks for your time!

[Melba23]

BenjaminAlvarado,

Please post the script you used - without it we are only whistling in the dark. Although I think a HotKey sounds like what you need.

And when you post your code please use Code tags - put [autoit] before and [/autoit] after your posted code - then you get a nice scrolling box to hold it.

M23

[DicatoroftheUSA]

Right click on the tray icon?

[BenjaminAlvarado]

ok sorry, didn't think the code was needed (duh me )

BlockInput(1)
Run("notepad.exe C:UsersBenjyDesktopfff.txt")
WinWaitActive("fff - Notepad")
AutoItSetOption("SendKeyDelay", 100)
Send("ummm so this is supposed to be on a different line {enter} not sure what that means though." & @CRLF & "This should be on a new line!")
WinClose("fff - Notepad")
WinWaitActive("Notepad")
Send("!s")
$sData = MsgBox(0, "To Commander Atg", "Everything has been done as ordered Sir!", 4)
AutoItSetOption("SetKeyDelay", 60000)
Send("oooooooooo")
Run("notepad.exe C:UsersBenjyDesktopfff.txt")
WinWaitActive("fff - Notepad")
AutoItSetOption("SendKeyDelay", 120)
Send("ummm so this is supposed to be on a different line {enter} not sure what that means though." & @CRLF & "This should be on a new line!")
WinClose("fff - Notepad")
WinWaitActive("Notepad")
Send("!s")
MsgBox(0, "To Commander Atg", "Everything has been done as ordered Sir!", 4)
BlockInput(0)

THis is the snippet of it. dont laugh! yes I used the "o" per 1 minute to ad up to however long I put it at. and I just copied and pasted x10 since I dont know how to loop yet.

Also I used the varialbe that I think I set "$sData" and it didn't put the msg box back up at the end. I had to put the line of script.

[Mechaflash]

THis is the snippet of it. dont laugh! yes I used the "o" per 1 minute to ad up to however long I put it at. and I just copied and pasted x10 since I dont know how to loop yet.

For $i = 1 To 10
  [code to run X10]
Next

Ctrl+Alt+Del and kill the script? If you've forced it to run another .exe, you'll have to kill IT as well.

[Mechaflash]

Key rule to programming: Always have a way to exit safely =D

[BenjaminAlvarado]

thanks on the info! I loop now

still my improvisation was rather rookie-genius no?

@m23 I found the hotkey command. . . . . i think "HotKeySet( "key" [, "function"] )"

and I put it into my code like such "hotkeyset("p', "terminate")" but it doesn't shut it down?

here is the code.

I also tried "exit" but "terminate" was the example given in the help article.

BlockInput(1)
HotKeySet("p", "Terminate")
Run("notepad.exe C:UsersBenjyDesktopfff.txt")
WinWaitActive("fff - Notepad")
AutoItSetOption("SendKeyDelay", 100)
Send("ummm so this is supposed to be on a different line {enter} not sure what that means though." & @CRLF & "This should be on a new line!")
WinClose("fff - Notepad")
WinWaitActive("Notepad")
Send("!s")
$sData = MsgBox(0, "To Commander Atg", "Everything has been done as ordered Sir!", 4)
AutoItSetOption("SetKeyDelay", 60000)
Send("oooooooooo")
Run("notepad.exe C:UsersBenjyDesktopfff.txt")
WinWaitActive("fff - Notepad")
AutoItSetOption("SendKeyDelay", 120)
Send("ummm so this is supposed to be on a different line {enter} not sure what that means though." & @CRLF & "This should be on a new line!")
WinClose("fff - Notepad")
WinWaitActive("Notepad")
Send("!s")
MsgBox(0, "To Commander Atg", "Everything has been done as ordered Sir!", 4)
BlockInput(0)

Edited November 16, 2012 by BenjaminAlvarado

[JLogan3o13]

Can you please show what you have in your Terminate function? Understand that the HotKeySet basically says "when you hit this letter (p, in your case), I am going to call this function (Terminate)". It can be as easy as this, but you need something in there:

Func Terminate()

   Exit

EndFunc

[BenjaminAlvarado]

ohhh. . I thoughth the word "terminate" was it. I dind't know to set "terminate" to a funciton. . . ok thanks. I will odo that.