At exit close autoit.exe and MSGBOX or launch GUI?

[jack71]

So currently I have a script that runs every say 4 hours.  After running some tasks my script checks for conditions, which I want to alert the user if there's an issue that needs to be dealt with.  At the end of the script it pops up msgbox or a GUI to alert the user what was found.

If nobody gets to the computer to hit OK on the msgbox in 8 hours, the script will run again and obviously there will be problems.  What I'm doing currently is I made separate autoit exe's with simple msgbox/gui alerts and use fileinstall to install them so I can call them if a condition is found.  I also have my script check to see if these processes are open in the beginning and close them, so the script can run again.

To me this is an ugly workaround.  I'd rather just put one .exe on the computer, run autoit.exe, if conditions met close autoit.exe and msgbox/GUI in a new separate process.  Is there a better method than the way I'm doing it?

[Melba23]

jack71,

If you used my ExtMsgBox UDF (look in my sig for the link) instead of the standard API version, you would not block the script and so you could just wait patiently counting down until it is time to run the script comes around. Then you could either close and restart the script, or even just begin the same instance again. How does that sound?

M23

[mikell]

Not sure I clearly understood the problem but maybe when running the script you can check if a previous msgbox exists

If WinExists("my_warning") Then WinClose("my_warning")

Msgbox(64, "my_warning", " this is a kind of warning ")

or use timers

[Morronic]

Check out Windows Task Scheduler. Have the Message Box give a time of the error, that way you can tell what time the error was found. You can make scheduled tasks run even if another instance is already running 

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/schedule-task#1TC=windows-7