comd.exe - program done?

[Guest lucindrea]

ok i have done a few searches and havent been able to come up with what i want to do ..

basicly i'm running a command in a dos shell and it scrolls by going 10.1% 10.2% , etc up untill 99% .. it never acctully shows 100% , what happens is that it goes from 98% ish ( doesnt show every 0.1% , just what ever it's up to every 1 second ) then prints out a "DONE!" ...

the problem i have is that this can take 30 seconds to go from 0% to 100% , or it can take 10 mins ... i need to be able to monitor the cmd window and wait for the DONE! to come up so i can go on to the next part of the autoit script.

is their a simple way to do this? , if not checking for the DONE! , perhaps their is a way to monitor the process and if it uses less then 1% cpu i can concider it finished , of course i havent a clue how to do that either or if it's even possable.

[Guest lucindrea]

ok i was able to work this out myself , basicly i just ran the program directly and did a winwaitclose

[ezzetabi]

Or the good:

$Pid = Run('filename.exe')

;Do what ever you want to do while waiting.

ProcessWaitClose($Pid)

[flyingboz]

I'm also a big fan of checking the errorlevel returns in addition to the process existence -- trapping the return from the runwait will ensure that you got a DONE!, rather than FAILED!!

[ezzetabi]

Yeah, lucindrea. Try to cast your program and check its exitlevel value, (if any) with

echo %errorlevel%

So you can use it the script

E.g.

$el = RunWait('myprogram.exe')
Select
   Case $el = 1
      msgbox(0,'Faliure','Gasp. Something goes wrong!')
   Case $el = 0
      msgbox(0,'Success','Love it.')
   Case Else
      msgbox(0,'Well.. Dunno..','I can't tell')
EndSelect

Edit: fixed. Thanks sugi.

Edited November 14, 2004 by ezzetabi

[sugi]

Just a quick note: Run() cannot and does not return the errorlevel but RunWait() does.

[ezzetabi]

Yes, of course. Run() returns the Pid as shown in the other example of mine few posts before.

Thanks Sugi.

[Guest lucindrea]

works great thanks , and the error checking is a nice bonus