supraspecies Posted January 5, 2013 Posted January 5, 2013 (edited) Good day. I'm making my script run an installer, and display a message after installer closes. Basically: ShellExecuteWait -> Installer -> message Question: installer requires admin rights and thus my script will provoke a UAC prompt to come up. Could it possibly cause a message to appear prematurely? I.e. script sends a call to installer, but installer execution is being halted, so the script, theoretically, might consider it as if installer process is ended and display a message prematurely. I'm asking this because I don't know what exactly UAC does to halt the application execution. So my question is simple: will this happen or not? I have no way to test it atm. It shouldn't happen, because as far as I saw, UAC halts the entire OS, not just an application being executed. But I need a confirmation to this assumption. P.S. I don't want to assign admin rights requirement to my script unless it's necessary. Edited January 5, 2013 by supraspecies
DW1 Posted January 5, 2013 Posted January 5, 2013 The installer isn't going to return an exit code due to a UAC prompt. In order to not have a UAC prompt later during your script though, add #requireadmin to your script, so that your script will be the one prompting for UAC, and anything called from within it inherits the allow. AutoIt3 Online Help
BrewManNH Posted January 5, 2013 Posted January 5, 2013 Or use #AutoIt3Wrapper_res_requestedExecutionLevel= ;None, asInvoker, highestAvailable or requireAdministrator (default=None)Then it gets added to the programs manifest. 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
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