How to run script outside SciTE editor ?

[kcvinu]

Hi all,

I am trying to run my autoit script from Sublime Text editor. I am using a python script for this. These are the arguments that I uses.

argList.append("C:\\Program Files (x86)\\AutoIt3\\AutoIt3_x64.exe")
argList.append("C:\\Program Files (x86)\\AutoIt3\\SciTE\\AutoIt3Wrapper\\AutoIt3Wrapper.au3")
argList.extend(["/run", "/prod", "/ErrorStdOut", "/in"]) 
argList.append("C:\\Users\\kcvin\\OneDrive\\Programming\\D Lang\\AutoWings\\dflex-au3\\app.au3")

subprocess.run(argList)

I can successfully run my script and I can see the window up and running. But the problem is I don't get any outputs from AutoIt3_x64. If any errors in the script, I will not get any error messages. How to fix this ?

[kcvinu]

Hi all, I found the answer by myself. I am happy to share the answer for future readers. At first, I thought that Autoit interpreter is only worked well with Scintilla editor. Because, when I tried to run my au3 script in notepad++ with "NppExec" plugin, it amazingly shows the real time outputs in console. But I was wrong. Autoit will emit program outputs at real time and we need to catch it from stdout or stderr. So this python script will work.  

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import subprocess
import threading

// We need to omit unnecessary clutter from our console. So exclude the output with these words.
excluded_words = ["Starting AutoIt3Wrapper", "Running AU3Check", "AU3Check ended", ">Running",
                  "+>Setting Hotkeys", "AutoIt3.exe ended", " AutoIt3Wrapper Finished"]

// But we need to check the return codes. If something went terribly wrong, we need that line in console.
result_words = ["AU3Check ended", "AutoIt3.exe ended" ]
success_result = "rc:0" // If 'rc' os anything other than 0, we need to see iit

def is_exluded_line(text): // if this returns True, we don't need 'text' to be printed in console.
    found = any(word in text for word in excluded_words)
    if found:
        end_result = any(word in text for word in result_words)
        if end_result:
            if not success_result in text: return False
        return True
    else:
        return False

// This function will collect the program output and display it in console.
def read_output(stream):
    outNum = 1 // I like a counter, bcause, it's easy to analyse the output.
    for line in stream:
        // Process and handle the output line
        if not is_exluded_line(line):
            print(f"[{outNum}] {line.strip()}")
            outNum += 1    

// This functions spawns two different threads and collect the program outputs
def capture_output(command):
    // Run the command and capture the stdout and stderr in real-time
    process = subprocess.Popen(command, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, universal_newlines=True)

    // Create separate threads to read from stdout and stderr    
    stdout_thread = threading.Thread(target=read_output, args=(process.stdout,))
    stderr_thread = threading.Thread(target=read_output, args=(process.stderr,))    
    
    // Start the threads to capture the output in real-time
    stdout_thread.start()
    stderr_thread.start()

    // Wait for the process to finish and the threads to complete
    process.wait()
    stdout_thread.join()
    stderr_thread.join()
    print("AutoIt3 Exited............................") // We want to see a nice reminder that everything has been ended.


argList = ["cmd", "/c", "cd"] // We will run command prompt.
argList.append(r"path to your working directory") // cmd will change to that directory
argList.append("&&") // After running the cd command,
argList.append(r"C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\AutoIt3_x64.exe") // We need to start AutoItx3.exe and AutoIt3Wrapper.
argList.append("C:\\Program Files (x86)\\AutoIt3\\SciTE\\AutoIt3Wrapper\\AutoIt3Wrapper.au3")        
argList.extend(["/run", "/ErrorStdOut", "/in"])
argList.append("your_script.au3")

// Now run the command with our function
capture_output(argList)

 How to run your au3 scripts with this python script ?

Just open command prompt and run your python script like this;

python "your_script_to_run_au3.py"

 

Edited June 5, 2023 by kcvinu