Run as Scheduled Task

[hankh]

Hi,

I have my AutoIt3 script.exe as Windows Sceduled Task.

Everything seems works ok but at the end...

The script calls a compiled Visual FoxPro EXE then sleeps for 10 minutes.

Sleep(600000). This window seems enough to take care of everything.

A couple things, first the "MAXWIN.exe" never gets back focus

and second, my scheduled Task keeps running indefinately.

Any Help Appreciated, Thanks.

Send("#r")

WinWaitActive("Run")

Send("maxwin.exe{Enter}")

WinWaitActive("Login")

Send("{ENTER}")

;WinWaitActive("Choose an Address Book List")

;Send("{ENTER}")

sleep(20000) ;Pause 20 secs for Max to open and read a book

Run("g:\code\con2000\data\ttomaxup.exe")

;Sleep(840000) ;Pause 14 minutes for FoxPro to execute.

;Sleep(780000) ;Pause 13 minutes for FoxPro to execute.

Sleep(600000) ;Pause 10 minutes for FoxPro to execute.

;WinActivate("Microsoft Visual FoxPro")

;WinWaitActive("Microsoft Visual FoxPro")

;WinClose("Microsoft Visual FoxPro")

WinActivate("Maximizer Enterprise [APEX2001]")

;WinWaitActive("Maximizer Enterprise [APEX2001]")

send("!f")

send("{DOWN 17}")

Send("{ENTER}")

[lod3n]

Does it work when you run it yourself, but not as a Scheduled Task? When running as a scheduled task, are you logged in? Is the workstation locked? No window can ever be Active when there is no visible windows session running. So WinWaitActive will wait forever.

[Blue_Drache]

Instead of :

Send("#r")
WinWaitActive("Run")
Send("maxwin.exe{Enter}")
WinWaitActive("Login")
Send("{ENTER}")
;WinWaitActive("Choose an Address Book List")
;Send("{ENTER}")oÝ÷ Ù:ò­æx.¦íän©ÝFéÖj+_ºw-ì{az¥¥ø¥x  l¢)ìµæ¡ö®¶­sg6VæBgV÷C²b333¶bgV÷C²§6VæBgV÷C·´DõtâwÒgV÷C²¥6VæBgV÷C·´TåDU'ÒgV÷C²

Perhaps WinClose() might be better?

[hankh]

Does it work when you run it yourself, but not as a Scheduled Task? When running as a scheduled task, are you logged in? Is the workstation locked? No window can ever be Active when there is no visible windows session running. So WinWaitActive will wait forever.

YES- actually does work when launching it myself. As a scheduled task I am logged in and not locked.

I am visually monitoring whats going on. In my code "WinWaitActive" is commented out, so only the

other WinActivate is executable. Note that when my "ttomaxup" (FoxPro exe) is launched, the first process launched (Maxwin.exe) runs minimized.

[hankh]

Instead of :

Send("#r")
WinWaitActive("Run")
Send("maxwin.exe{Enter}")
WinWaitActive("Login")
Send("{ENTER}")
;WinWaitActive("Choose an Address Book List")
;Send("{ENTER}")oÝ÷ Ù:ò­æx.¦íän©ÝFéÖj+_ºw-ì{az¥¥ø¥x  l¢)ìµæ¡ö®¶­sg6VæBgV÷C²b333¶bgV÷C²§6VæBgV÷C·´DõtâwÒgV÷C²¥6VæBgV÷C·´TåDU'ÒgV÷C²

Perhaps WinClose() might be better?

If the Maxwin process is running minimized, would I have to first "WinActivate" it before "WinClose"?

[Blue_Drache]

If the Maxwin process is running minimized, would I have to first "WinActivate" it before "WinClose"?

Why not write a little test script and try it out?

Open notepad

minimise

Winclose("notepad")

[hankh]

Why not write a little test script and try it out?

Open notepad

minimise

Winclose("notepad")

THANKS EVERYONE!

Finally got everything to work! Firstly, my FoxPro exe takes about 10 minutes to run. My

script sleeps for 10 minutes after launching FoxPro.

I discovered that I had my Windows Scheduled Task to terminate after 10 minutes running!

(So my script did not have a chance to "WinClose") - OOPS!

At the end of my script I now have "WinActivate" then "WinClose" - works great.

(WinKill gets me closure errors)

[Blue_Drache]

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(WinKill gets me closure errors)

WinKill() should always be a last resort. It's similar to opening the task manager and forcibly ending the task on an application or a process.

WinClose() asks the program to shut itself down, allowing the process to tidy up and take out the garbage, IE: Closing and/or removing temp files, unloading from memory gracefully, etc....

[lod3n]

Instead of waiting 10 minutes, regardless of how long it actually takes (11 minutes, or maybe nine on a good day?), try this:

While ProcessExists("ttomaxup.exe")
sleep(1000)
wend

I think scheduled tasks run in their own environment space too, so WinActivate, WinWaitActive, etc still won't work. Try WinExists instead.

Edited September 7, 2006 by lod3n