salaucks Posted October 15, 2018 Posted October 15, 2018 I'm trying to write a custom shutdown.exe app because reasons. The idea is that I'd want to accept a command from either the cmd interface or from the gui interface on the start menu, and then call the real shutdown.exe in the fashion that I want to use it. The only thing I'm stuck on is accepting input flags. If/when windows calls shutdown.exe (which would be my custom one), I'd like to also pull in the -r, -s, or -l flags. Does AutoIT have a function built in which will be able to interpret these flags?
salaucks Posted October 15, 2018 Author Posted October 15, 2018 Allow me to clarify, windows would be sending commands such as "shutdown -r", shutdown -t", etc. I'd like to be able to recognize the -r, -t, -l, etc, and be able to do different actions based on what flag windows sends.
FrancescoDiMuro Posted October 15, 2018 Posted October 15, 2018 @salaucks So you want to build your custom shutdown application, which could be called from command line and from a GUI either? And, it should recognize parameters like -r, -t and so on? Could you make a real-world example? Click here to see my signature: Spoiler ALWAYS GOOD TO READ: Forum Rules Forum Etiquette
Moderators Melba23 Posted October 15, 2018 Moderators Posted October 15, 2018 Moved to the appropriate forum, as the Developer General Discussion forum very clearly states: Quote General development and scripting discussions. If it's super geeky and you don't know where to put it - it's probably here. Do not create AutoIt-related topics here, use the AutoIt General Help and Support or AutoIt Technical Discussion forums. Moderation Team Any of my own code posted anywhere on the forum is available for use by others without any restriction of any kind Open spoiler to see my UDFs: Spoiler ArrayMultiColSort ---- Sort arrays on multiple columnsChooseFileFolder ---- Single and multiple selections from specified path treeview listingDate_Time_Convert -- Easily convert date/time formats, including the language usedExtMsgBox --------- A highly customisable replacement for MsgBoxGUIExtender -------- Extend and retract multiple sections within a GUIGUIFrame ---------- Subdivide GUIs into many adjustable framesGUIListViewEx ------- Insert, delete, move, drag, sort, edit and colour ListView itemsGUITreeViewEx ------ Check/clear parent and child checkboxes in a TreeViewMarquee ----------- Scrolling tickertape GUIsNoFocusLines ------- Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxesNotify ------------- Small notifications on the edge of the displayScrollbars ----------Automatically sized scrollbars with a single commandStringSize ---------- Automatically size controls to fit textToast -------------- Small GUIs which pop out of the notification area
salaucks Posted October 15, 2018 Author Posted October 15, 2018 I have a use case where we have a few VMs and we don't want people shutting them down. Restarts are fine since the VM will come back up, but shutting down makes bad things happen. GPO has this unhelpful feature where you can disable both shutdown and restart, but not just shutdown. My thought is that I'd just make an exe which just listens to windows calling shutdown.exe and grabs whichever of the flags windows sends to it, substitutes the -s for -r and forwards them off to the real shutdown.exe.
FrancescoDiMuro Posted October 15, 2018 Posted October 15, 2018 @salaucks Seems to be possible Click here to see my signature: Spoiler ALWAYS GOOD TO READ: Forum Rules Forum Etiquette
salaucks Posted October 15, 2018 Author Posted October 15, 2018 Thanks @FrancescoDiMuro I'll give that a try tomorrow. It appears as though it might work with minimal modification.
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