AutoIt should return when script is finished???

[baldur]

Hi,

after some hours of researching i stil have no clue what is going on internally in autoit it.

I am used to unix - so i am seeing autoit as just an another script language - which behaves very strange!

My Goal is simple. I want to start an Auto it script from an VBScript program - and i do not want to the autoit script to return before the script is finished.

Currently i try to run the script

"C:\mypath\autoit3.exe" "myscript"

in VBScript with "wsh.Run(cmdline,0,true)"

However if i start the autoit script (which waits until a "Busy" window disappears - Simple! ) - autoit Returns immediatly.

Even if i try to run this from dos cmdline it

this line returns immediatly - although it correctly displays a message box some 120 secondes later when the busy window has disappeared

"C:\mypath\autoit3.exe" "myscript", the script Returns immediatly

--> so my Programm continues - although the "Busy Window" has not disappeared!

However i want _not_ an immediate return. I want that autoit3.exe Returns exactly when myscript is finished - and not any time earlier!

At this point and a lot research i have no clue how to do this....

Can anybody please advise me?

Thanks!

[czardas]

I pressume by 'return' you mean terminate (or maybe you mean a successful script startup). If an AutoIt message box appears later, the script must still be active, so it can not have terminated. Perhaps the script is badly written for the particular purpose. I can't see your script, so I'm afraid I don't have a clue.

Edited December 28, 2012 by czardas

[BrewManNH]

Is there by any chance a #RequireAdmin in the script? Because that will cause AutoIt to restart itself with Admin credentials, which means the original script has terminated and then started a new instance of itself. Unfortunately, that will also mean that the calling VBscript will see that the original program has terminated.

[junkew]

Please post your code tried so far.

Read helpfile on

WinWait ( "title" [, "text" [, timeout]] )

or

WinWaitActive ( "title" [, "text" [, timeout]] )

or

you need a loop that waits till the exitsituation is there

$t=false
while $t=False
    sleep 200

;TO DO whatever your situation is to wait for
  $t=winexists("Busybox")
wend

Edited December 28, 2012 by junkew

[baldur]

Hi, sorry for not posting, but i had to many "Debug" Statements in the code....

Here it is nice and simple (see below). The basic challenge is

VBscript Programm --> Run AutoIt Script --> Wait until AutoIt Script finishes --> contine VBScript Programm.

Or to make it simpler

CMD Line -> Runi AutoiT Script - CMD Line blocks until Script finished

But i cannot get this to work !!!

When i start it on console "autoit3.exe myscript.au3" then the programm immediatly "forks/spawns" and

i can type again in the cmdline, although it should block until it finishes --> the script does exactly what

is meant to be it ends when the window close, however as it as forked/spawned a new process

from the console i have no way to determine when the autoit script has finished....

In AutoIt There is a "RunWait" to Wait for External Programms...

In Unix environemtn, there is always some kind of "do not fork" , "do not create new process" switch, in order to prevent the behaviour i see with AutoIt.

--------------------snip------------------------------------------------

AutoItSetOption("MustDeclareVars", 1)

Dim $window_name

$window_name = "Busy"

; Sleep until Programm is up and running
Sleep(5000)

; Now run until it finishes and the "Busy" Window Disappear
While WinExists($window_name)
Sleep(10000)
Wend

MsgBox(0,"Reached End", "Reached End!")

Edited December 29, 2012 by baldur

[baldur]

Guys,

i finally found a "solution". I have to compile the au3 script to an "console" exe programm. This way i get the expected behaviour. The exe ends when the compiled au3 script is finished...

This was a tough one... and still, why i must compile this? I 'd rather like to live without a compiled script.