Interlink two processes; if 1st is closed also kill the 2nd

[pindol]

Hey there,

I'm curious if there's a possibility to interlink two processes. Is someone kind enough to help me writing this one?

run iexplore.exe

run program2.exe (program2 is already designed to stay hidden in the taskbar just waiting for some keystrokes from iexplore)

if iexplore.exe gets closed also terminate program2.

I'd love to get some help from a pro

[Melba23]

pindol,

Welcome to the AutoIt forums.

Using ProcessExists in a loop would seem to be sensible solution to your problem.

M23

Edited March 26, 2015 by Melba23
Fixed BB tags

[JohnOne]

Can you explain this a little more?

"program2 is already designed to stay hidden in the taskbar just waiting for some keystrokes from iexplore"

[pindol]

Can you explain this a little more?

"program2 is already designed to stay hidden in the taskbar just waiting for some keystrokes from iexplore"

Here's the scenario. I'm trying to publish two applications in one instance on a Citrix XenApp Farm.

The plan is to publish an .exe to run iexplore.exe and program2. program2 is a 3rd party application which is running in the background hidden in the tray bar).

Program2 is designed to wait for a keystroke like shift+F11 to execute a function wich interacts with adobe acrobat.

Actually I just need to get sure that the program2 process is also getting terminated when the iexplore.exe process is getting killed by the user.

The main problem are my scripting skills, which are almost nonexistant

Edited March 26, 2015 by pindol

[JohnOne]

Like Melba23 said.

Or this will close both apps it either is closed by user.

While ProcessExists("app1.exe") And ProcessExists("App2.exe")
    Sleep(100)
WEnd

ProcessClose("App1.exe")
ProcessClose("App2.exe")

Edited March 26, 2015 by JohnOne

[water]

Run returns the PID of the process that was launched. You could use this PID to make sure you close the correct process.

$iPID1 = Run("iexplore.exe")
$iPID2 = Run("program2.exe")
While ProcessExists($iPID1) And ProcessExists($iPID2)
    Sleep(100)
WEnd
ProcessClose($iPID1)
ProcessClose($iPID2)

[pindol]

 

Like Melba23 said.

Or this will close both apps it either is closed by user.

While ProcessExists("app1.exe") And ProcessExists("App2.exe")
    Sleep(100)
WEnd

ProcessClose("App1.exe")
ProcessClose("App2.exe")

Thanks for the help! I'm almost at the finish line

Unfortunately the script does not work properly when iexplore is already opened.

It opens iexplore.exe but the second program won't start unless I kill the both iexplore processes and restart the script again.

On the other hand it closes all iexplore instances when the second app is getting closed.

Is there a way to get around this?

Thanks in advance!

 

@water: will move to your PID suggestion since I'm planing to run it on a Terminal Server

Edited March 26, 2015 by pindol

[pindol]

Got it solved. Thanks again guys! You made my day