Button to run script

[iMacg3]

Hi,

 

New to the forum and AutoIt. Still learning the basics of how to code in AutoIt.

Just a question that should be easy for all of you experts to answer. After creating a button in a GUI, what would be the best way to make the action of the user clicking the button run another AutoIt script?

 

Thanks. 

[FrancescoDiMuro]

Hi @iMacg3, and welcome to the AutoIt Forum

Mainly, there are two ways to make an action when pressing a button.

The first, is by using an infinite While loop, in which there's a function called GUIGetMsg(), which continuously sees if there are new "messages", like a button press, the close event of the GUI, and so on.

The structure what I've described has this form:

Local $idMsg = 0

While 1
    $idMsg = GUIGetMsg()
    
    Switch $idMsg
        Case $idButton
            ; Make actions when $idButton has been pressed
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            ; Exit the script, since the "X" button of the GUI has been pressed
            Exit
    EndSwitch
WEnd

The second one, is by using the option "OnEventMode = 1", which means that, the script, will not continuously sees if there are new messages, but will process them and take actions only when the event(s) effectively occur(s).

The structure of what I've described has this form:

Global $GUI = GUICreate()
GUISetOnEvent($GUI_EVENT_CLOSE, "ExitApplication")
Global $idButton = GUICtrlCreateButton(...)
GUICtrlSetOnEvent(-1, "idButton_Click")
GUISetState($hGUI, @SW_SHOW)

While 1
    Sleep(100)
WEnd


Func ExitApplication()
    Exit
EndFunc

Func idButton_Click()
    ; The button has been pressed
EndFunc

You can find more about GUIGetMsg() and the Option OnEventMode in the Help file

 

P.S.: If you want to make a GUI without manually calculating the position of the controls, you can use Koda Form Designer

Edited September 4, 2018 by FrancescoDiMuro

[iMacg3]

Thanks for your help. I will read the tutorials in the help file about what you mentioned above. 

[markyrocks]

You could #Include "YourOtherScript.au3" (this assumes that it resides in the main script directory. You can also add a path)

And just call specific functions from that script from your main script when button is pressed. 

Edited September 6, 2018 by markyrocks