While loop creates multiple instances of autoit3.exe running

[tk1]

Hi all,

When I run the following script from within SciTE, it starts multiple instances of autoit3.exe.  Any idea why?

#include <services.au3>
#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3>

Global $sServiceName = "SensrSvc"
Global $sServiceStat = _Service_QueryStatus($sServiceName)

While $sServiceStat[1] < 4
    MsgBox(0, "Service Status", "The status of the " & $sServiceName & " service is:  " & $sServiceStat[1])
    Sleep(1000)
    $sServiceStat = _Service_QueryStatus($sServiceName)
WEnd

 

Thanks in advance for your help.

tk1

[Jos]

Are you using the full version of SciTE4AutoIt3 which uses AutoIt3Wrapper? 

In that case there will be 3 instances of AutoIt3: 2 to run the AutoIt3Wrapper functionality and 1 for the actual script,

Jos

[tk1]

Hi Jos,

Thank you for the quick response. Yes, I'm using the full SciTE version.

So, if I understand, the multiple instances is due to SciTE. However once I compile and then run the script, there will only be one instance of the script running, not multiple. Is that correct?

Thanks,
tk1

[Jos]

Correct... just give it a try

Jos

[tk1]

Ok, I will do. It concerned me because I've never seen SciTE do that before.

Thanks again!
tk1

[Jos]

It is how I designed AutoIt3Wrapper, which uses one instance to shell the actual script and capture the output and one instance to monitor the processes to be able to detect when something was closed.
In the beginning it was a compiled version of Autoit3Wrapper which was ran 2 times, but I changed that to actually running the script with AutoIt3 as we had regularly false positives for the compiled scripts.

Jos