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I have searched everywhere on this and it's a tough thing to search for.  Search strings like "autoit ask user to close applications" and "autoit graceful app shutdown" have turned up very little.

 

I'm writing a script to automate adding a profile to Outlook for a large user base.  It will run on each user's machine and delete Outlook profiles and add a new one in and automate the creation and send user name and information etc.

The problem is this:  Outlook may be open on the user's machine.  So I'm trying to either have a while loop (or similar) that checks if Outlook is open [winexists("Outlook")] and if the window is there, ask the user to close outlook.  Then check again to ensure Outlook is closed until the user closes outlook.  Once it's closed, continue on with the script.

I can't quite figure out a loop to to do this.  

I tried something like this:

while 1
if winexists("Outlook") then
   msgbox(16, "Outlook is open","Please close outlook and click 'OK'")
else
exitloop
endif
WEnd

And that is not behaving correctly.  

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The first thing I tried before arriving on this solution is winclose("Outlook")  The problem there is that sometimes that worked fine but sometimes, when I launched Outlook at the end of my script, Outlook would open saying it did not shut down correctly and asks the user for additional input.  This obviously is bad for my scripting attempts.  It usually works, but sometime it does now.  I'm assuming this is from Autoit killing the outlook process vs a graceful shutdown from the user.  Any help would be greatly appreciated!

(P.S. Sorry for the longs post.  Just wanted to be clear...)

Thanks in advance,

Chris

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Try this:

Do
    If ProcessExists("outlook.exe") Then
        MsgBox(0, "Ops!", "Please close Outlook!")
    EndIf
Until Not ProcessExists("outlook.exe")

I don't have outlook installed here, so i don't know if the process name is "outlook.exe". If not change with the right process name.

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You can check for the process as Nessie suggests above. For the close, I have always leaned more toward manipulating the object rather than just killing the process; personal preference.

$oMail = ObjGet("", "Outlook.Application")
$oMail.Quit

Edit: Or completely using the object model, and skipping the process lookup:

$oMail = ObjGet("", "Outlook.Application")

    If IsObj($oMail) Then
        $oMail.Quit
    Else
        MsgBox(0, "", "Object does not exist")
    EndIf
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Thank you both for your replies!

For future scripts, I will try JLogan's code.  since I'm short on testing time right now (I would need a good bit dedicated to trying this a lot of times to ensure that I am not still randomly (and rarely) seeing the Outlook closing incorrectly message after using your new object method.

 

As for Nessie's response, it is working great.  Thanks!  How would I go about exiting the script if the user clicks the cancel button on my msgbox? (It has 'OK' and 'Cancel' buttons)  I.E msgbox(16, "","")

I saw some examples using switch and select but I can't get them to play nicely with the "if" statement in your code.  

Do
   If ProcessExists("outlook.exe") Then                   ; Checks to see if Outlook is open and asks the user to exit Outlook if it is.
       $box =  MsgBox(16, "Outlook is open", "Please close Outlook and click 'OK'")
           select
                case $box = 2
           exit
   EndIf
Until Not ProcessExists("outlook.exe")

This is throwing an error: "EndIf" statement with no matching "If" statement.: Endif

 

Thanks again!

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Look in the help file under Msgbox, it will show you how to close if they click cancel (hint: if msgbox = <number assigned to cancel> then exit)

 

As for your error, you don't have an EndSelect in there to close the Select statement.

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Your're the man!

Thanks.

For future people with this problem, here is my working code:

Do
   If ProcessExists("outlook.exe") Then                   ; Checks to see if Outlook is open and asks the user to exit Outlook if it is.
       $box =  MsgBox(1, "Outlook is open", "Please close Outlook and click 'OK'")
       select
       case $box = 2
          exit
       EndSelect
   EndIf
Until Not ProcessExists("outlook.exe")
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Try not to use processclose if you can, opt for sending a WM_CLOSE message via winclose. Search the forum on how to get a handle from a PID.

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