Keep a program alive

[akorx]

Hi my friends !

Sometimes, I've not find the reason why, my program (a compliled script) stops working (crash) without error... Is there a way to keep it alive with something like this "on error do nothing" (I've time to find the reason before few weeks) ?

Edited July 25, 2015 by akorx

[water]

Yes, remove the root problem. 

Honestly. Make your program more reliable so you won't need a 'trick' to restart it after a crash. 

[akorx]

Nothing like "on error" ?

[water]

Not easy to advise without seeing your code. 

[jguinch]

You can use OnAutoItExitRegister (at the beginning of your code), then you will know if you script ends due to a crash or a logical exit.

Example :

OnAutoItExitRegister("_OnExitFunc")

; You code....

Func _OnExitFunc()
    MsgBox(48, "", "Exiting script...")
EndFunc

With this code, if the MsgBox appears, then if is not due to a crash but a bad scripting... In this case you can use ShellExecute(@ScriptFullPath) in the _OnExitFunc function to relaunch your script (but it would be really better to determine cause of the exit instead)

Edit : as Water said, show your code...

Edited July 25, 2015 by jguinch

[water]

The function is not called when the script crashes. Check @exitMethod for the supported methods to exit the script.

[jguinch]

Maybe it is not a crash, but just a normal behavior (just bad coding). It's for this reason I suggest this

[akorx]

First, thanks for yours replies guys !

I haven't got the script here because it's on computer at work... but it has no "exit" because it runs every time, like an antivirus program. Endeed, it's a program to tile windows, fixe others at the top, etc.

I can imagine that the crash of my program appears when I want to resize a window that is not responding (but his process is still there). We can understand behind this, that it's NOT a "normal case". A "normal case" is : the process exists or it doesn't exist, we can verify his state before running the function (resize for example). A zombie process or a process that is not responding is NOT a "normal case". You understand  ?

So I suppose that we can find a function "ON ERROR" that stops the resize function when it happens in order to keep my program alives, but how can we do this with autoit?

PS : sorry for my bad english, I'm french.

Edited July 26, 2015 by akorx

[jguinch]

Your english is not so bad

First, I suggest you to post your code here as soon as you can : I'm pretty sure that someone will point out why you script fails.tI

To find out the issue by yourself, you can add an ouput comment per line (to the console or a log file). If you can reproduce the problem with the non-compiled script, look at the Trace: Add trace line feature on Scite, it should be usefull to find the faulty line.

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