ShellExecute vs. Run

[cdub]

I was trying to run a script that runs another autoit script in the middle of it and learned that I need to use ShellExecuteWait(".\AutoIt.au3",".\childscript.au3") instead of RunWait with the same parameters.

I tried searching the forum for the difference between ShellExecute and Run and found this thread:

However, it doesn't explain why RunWait doesn't work for running child scripts and the help file doesn't really explain the differences either. So what's the difference?

Thanks.

[Nessie]

Answered tons of times , from a weaponx post:

ShellExecute is for launching files with their associated program.

Run executes programs only and will return a process ID of the process, this is very important.

RunWait pauses script execution until the external program is complete and then returns the exit code of the program.

There is a _ProcessGet UDF somewhere that can get the exitcodes from a Run() process ID.

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