Active X DLL - format of Run() method

[Guest Greg Thomas]

Took me a while to figure out why the following refused to work ...

Dim autoIt As New AUTOITX3Lib.Control
    
autoIt.Run "notepad.exe", ".", autoIt.AU3_SW_MAXIMIZE

It turns out the definition for Run expects a long rather than a ShowFlags. So I had to turn it in to

autoIt.Run "notepad.exe", ".", 3

Is there a reason why the definition for Run (and possibly others, too) has a Long rather than a ShowFlags argument? IMHO, it's much easier to read than just '3'.

Greg

[tutor2000]

Took me a while to figure out why the following refused to work ...

Dim autoIt As New AUTOITX3Lib.Control
    
autoIt.Run "notepad.exe", ".", autoIt.AU3_SW_MAXIMIZE

It turns out the definition for Run expects a long rather than a ShowFlags. So I had to turn it in to

autoIt.Run "notepad.exe", ".", 3

Is there a reason why the definition for Run (and possibly others, too) has a Long rather than a ShowFlags argument? IMHO, it's much easier to read than just '3'.

Greg

I haven't tried run with max so I hadn't run () into that. I am trying to use HTAs for menus now which involves a lot of vbscript and autoitx so keep posting this stuff woul ya?

rick

[Jon]

Took me a while to figure out why the following refused to work ...

Dim autoIt As New AUTOITX3Lib.Control
    
autoIt.Run "notepad.exe", ".", autoIt.AU3_SW_MAXIMIZE

It turns out the definition for Run expects a long rather than a ShowFlags. So I had to turn it in to

autoIt.Run "notepad.exe", ".", 3

Is there a reason why the definition for Run (and possibly others, too) has a Long rather than a ShowFlags argument? IMHO, it's much easier to read than just '3'.

Greg

I couldn't get it to work is the simple answer. If you know a resource that shows how to modify an activeX control to support this then let me know.

[Guest Greg Thomas]

I couldn't get it to work is the simple answer.  If you know a resource that shows how to modify an activeX control to support this then let me know.

I would have thought that it would just be a case of changing the Run() method to take a ShowFlags parameter, rather than a long, but I'm not 100% sure.

Greg

[bshoenhair]

Took me a while to figure out why the following refused to work ...

Dim autoIt As New AUTOITX3Lib.Control
    
autoIt.Run "notepad.exe", ".", autoIt.AU3_SW_MAXIMIZE

It turns out the definition for Run expects a long rather than a ShowFlags. So I had to turn it in to

autoIt.Run "notepad.exe", ".", 3

Is there a reason why the definition for Run (and possibly others, too) has a Long rather than a ShowFlags argument? IMHO, it's much easier to read than just '3'.

Greg

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(Works in March version)

Should have been:

autoIt.Run "notepad.exe", ".", AU3_SW_MAXIMIZE

or like you used

autoIt.Run "notepad.exe", ".", 3

[Jon]

(Works in March version)

Should have been:

autoIt.Run "notepad.exe", ".", AU3_SW_MAXIMIZE

I could never get that to work when I tried in VBscript (seems to be OK in normal VB). I'm removing those and adding "properties" for the @error and show flags so it will be:

oAutoIt.Run "notepad.exe", ".", oAutoIt.SW_MAXIMIZE

Edited August 8, 2004 by Jon