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[parkerbl]

Hey guys...I have once again came to seek the help from you guys. I'm sure that it is something really simple, and it might be something that I am overlooking, but I can't seem to find anything to resolve this. What I am wanting to do basically is this. I need a program that is constantly running and checking to see if IE is running. If IE is terminated, it opens up a new window according to that shortcut. So, I have this program in a constant while loop checking to see if the IE process exists, and if it doesn't exist, then run that shortcut. I can't just open a new IE window, because the shortcut runs an IE window that is a full screen document. So basically is there any way to just run a shortcut in the same directory. Thanks if advance guys.

[parkerbl]

Well, I have seemed to figure out some kind of solution for it. I just have the AutoIT script in a loop testing to see if the internet explorer process exists, and if it doesn't, then run a batch file that points to that shortcut. But when that AutoIT script is running that is checking to see if the internet explorer window is open, it is a loop and it is taking up 98/99 percent of memory. Is there any other way to constantly monitor the processes, and open a process if one is closed?

[JoshDB]

While 1
    If ProcessExists("ie.exe") Then
        Run("Whatever.exe")
    EndIf
    Sleep(100)
WEnd

Is this what you're looking for?

[kjmarket]

Without seeing your code, its hard to help, but do you have any sort of pause between executions of the loop?

[Geert]

To idle the cpu: add a sleep statement in the loop (as in post #3)

To start a shortcut:

$file = "MyShortcut.lnk"
Run("rundll32 url.dll, FileProtocolHandler " & $file)

[parkerbl]

Hey guys, thanks for the help so much. All of you guys have been a tremendous help. Here's what I ended up doing that seems to work fine:

CODE

Run("C:\run.bat")

ProcessWait("iexplore.exe")

Call("process")

Func process()

ProcessWaitClose("iexplore.exe")

Run("C:\run.bat")

ProcessWait("iexplore.exe")

Call("process")

EndFunc

[Helge]

parkerbl... You obviously don't understand the use of Call. Call is to be used when you don't know

the function-name to call at the time you write the script, and can be used to create dynamic scripts :

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+y©Ý¢w®º+ë,j¢{Zx§Ø^Âݪê-­ç.®È¯z«¨µ:ò²¶§X¤zØb²)ìµæjëh×6Run("C:\run.bat")
ProcessWait("iexplore.exe")

While 1
    ProcessWaitClose("iexplore.exe")
    Run("C:\run.bat")
    ProcessWait("iexplore.exe")
WEnd

EDIT : Added the two lines in start of code..

Edited December 20, 2006 by Helge