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Has anyone else had trouble running EXEs compiled from assembler language with Run() in AutoIt?

No, but you could try _RunDos(), which is basically just Run(@ComSpec & " /c program.exe"). This is identical to running the exe from the command prompt.
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No, but you could try _RunDos(), which is basically just Run(@ComSpec & " /c program.exe"). This is identical to running the exe from the command prompt.

Tried that already and I still get errors. It works when I use ShellExecute() but there is no way to get a connection to the IO stream with that function.

Perhaps there is a PROTO structure that would work more appropriately in my ASM code?

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What errors do you get? AutoIt errors? Does the program crash? You need to be more specific with that. muttley

I don't see why a program written in ASM would be any different then a program written in, say C++. They both "convert" to the same code in the end.

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The EXE crashes when it is run by AutoIt, it works without any problems when I run it from the console manually.

And I also tested an old c++ project of mine with the function and that worked perfectly, which is why I'm at a loss.

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Weird. It works for me just fine.

I assembled this with NASM (to "boot.exe")...

ORG 100h

section .data
message db 'Please type in your name: $', 0
response db 'Your name is: $', 0

buffer db 255
resb 256

section .text
%include "common.asm";just some macros I wrote...

printstr message
getstr buffer


exit

And then ran it with AutoIt:

Run("boot.exe")
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I used MASM 6.15 for compiling the code, here's one of the codes that I tried testing with.

CODE
TITLE L6

include Irvine32.inc

.data

prompinput db "Enter a test score between 0 and 100, enter -1 if you don't have a score to enter",0

promperror db "That is an invalid input",0

prompletter db "Your letter grade for this test score is ",0

promptotala db "You have entered a total of ",0

promptotalb db " valid test scores",0

prompavg db "The average test score is ",0

total sdword (0)

.code

main proc

sub eax,eax

sub ebx,ebx

sub ecx,ecx

sub edx,edx

call crlf

;=================

;beginning of loop

;=================

L1:

mov edx,offset prompinput

call writestring

call crlf

call readint

;===============

;tests the input

;===============

cmp eax,-1

je done

cmp eax,0

jb error

cmp eax,100

ja error

;==========================

;processes valid test score

;==========================

add total,eax

cmp eax,90

jae Agrade

cmp eax,80

jae Bgrade

cmp eax,70

jae Cgrade

cmp eax,60

jae Dgrade

mov al,'F'

jmp givegrade

Agrade:

mov eax,0

mov al,'A'

jmp givegrade

Bgrade:

mov eax,0

mov al,'B'

jmp givegrade

Cgrade:

mov eax,0

mov al,'C'

jmp givegrade

Dgrade:

mov eax,0

mov al,'D'

jmp givegrade

;=====================================

;displays the letter grade to the user

;=====================================

call crlf

givegrade:

mov edx,offset prompletter

call writestring

call writechar

inc ecx

call crlf

jmp L1

;=================================================================

;display error message if value entered fails the valid input test

;=================================================================

error:

call crlf

mov edx,offset promperror

call writestring

call crlf

jmp L1

;===========================================

;displays the total number of scores entered

;===========================================

done:

call crlf

mov edx,offset promptotala

call writestring

mov eax,ecx

call writedec

mov edx,offset promptotalb

call writestring

call crlf

call crlf

mov edx,offset prompavg

call writestring

mov eax,total

mov edx,0

div ecx

;==========================

;processes average score

;==========================

add total,eax

cmp eax,90

jae AgradeAvg

cmp eax,80

jae BgradeAvg

cmp eax,70

jae CgradeAvg

cmp eax,60

jae DgradeAvg

mov al,'F'

jmp givegradeAvg

AgradeAvg:

mov eax,0

mov al,'A'

jmp givegradeAvg

BgradeAvg:

mov eax,0

mov al,'B'

jmp givegradeAvg

CgradeAvg:

mov eax,0

mov al,'C'

jmp givegradeAvg

DgradeAvg:

mov eax,0

mov al,'D'

jmp givegradeAvg

;=====================================

;displays the average letter grade to the user

;=====================================

call crlf

givegradeAvg:

call writechar

exit

main endp

end main

And here is the .inc shown in the code.

CODE
; Include file for Irvine32.lib (Irvine32.inc)

INCLUDE SmallWin.inc ; MS-Windows prototypes, structures, and constants

.NOLIST

; Last update: 1/27/02

;----------------------------------------

; Procedure Prototypes

;----------------------------------------

ClrScr PROTO ; clear the screen

Crlf PROTO ; output carriage-return / linefeed

Delay PROTO ; delay for n milliseconds

DumpMem PROTO ; display memory dump

DumpRegs PROTO ; display register dump

GetCommandTail PROTO ; get command-line string

GetDateTime PROTO, ; get system date and time

startTime:PTR QWORD

GetMseconds PROTO ; get milliseconds past midnight

Gotoxy PROTO

IsDigit PROTO ; return ZF=1 if AL is a decimal digit

Randomize PROTO ; reseed random number generator

RandomRange PROTO ; generate random integer in specified range

Random32 PROTO ; generate 32-bit random integer

ReadInt PROTO ; read signed integer from console

ReadChar PROTO ; reach single character from console

ReadHex PROTO ; read hexadecimal integer from console

ReadString PROTO ; read string from console

SetTextColor PROTO ; set console text color

WaitMsg PROTO ; display wait message, wait for Enter key

WriteBin PROTO ; write integer to output in binary format

WriteChar PROTO ; write single character to output

WriteDec PROTO ; write unsigned decimal integer to output

WriteHex PROTO ; write hexadecimal integer to output

WriteInt PROTO ; write signed integer to output

WriteString PROTO ; write null-terminated string to output

; Copy a source string to a target string.

Str_copy PROTO,

source:PTR BYTE,

target:PTR BYTE

; Return the length of a null-terminated string..

Str_length PROTO,

pString:PTR BYTE

; Compare string1 to string2. Set the Zero and

; Carry flags in the same way as the CMP instruction.

Str_compare PROTO,

string1:PTR BYTE,

string2:PTR BYTE

; Trim a given trailing character from a string.

; The second argument is the character to trim.

Str_trim PROTO,

pString:PTR BYTE,

char:BYTE

; Convert a null-terminated string to upper case.

Str_ucase PROTO,

pString:PTR BYTE

;-----------------------------------

; Standard 4-bit color definitions

;-----------------------------------

black = 0000b

blue = 0001b

green = 0010b

cyan = 0011b

red = 0100b

magenta = 0101b

brown = 0110b

lightGray = 0111b

gray = 1000b

lightBlue = 1001b

lightGreen = 1010b

lightCyan = 1011b

lightRed = 1100b

lightMagenta = 1101b

yellow = 1110b

white = 1111b

.LIST

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