File size problem

[MrBlue]

Hello, I'm new to autoit i only just come accross this programming language today and i really like the looks of it although i have one problem, when im creating a program for example with just this little peice of code

RegWrite("HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run", "Something Really Important", "REG_SZ", @ScriptFullPath);omit to not set to startup
While 1
Beep(Random(100,2000,1),200)
$Pos= MouseGetPos()
Tooltip(" Disabled ", $Pos[0]-1, $Pos[1]-1)
Mousemove(@DesktopWidth/2, @DesktopHeight/2); Traps mouse in center of the screen
WEnd

The file is 1kb in .au3 format but when i compile that small peice of code it goes all the way up to 256kb and i find that a little large how can i make it MUCH smaller.

some details

I'm on Vista home premium 32bit and when i compile i choose Unicode.

Thanks for the replys in advance.

[yucatan]

Hello, I'm new to autoit i only just come accross this programming language today and i really like the looks of it although i have one problem, when im creating a program for example with just this little peice of code

RegWrite("HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run", "Something Really Important", "REG_SZ", @ScriptFullPath);omit to not set to startup
While 1
Beep(Random(100,2000,1),200)
$Pos= MouseGetPos()
Tooltip(" Disabled ", $Pos[0]-1, $Pos[1]-1)
Mousemove(@DesktopWidth/2, @DesktopHeight/2); Traps mouse in center of the screen
WEnd

The file is 1kb in .au3 format but when i compile that small peice of code it goes all the way up to 256kb and i find that a little large how can i make it MUCH smaller.

some details

I'm on Vista home premium 32bit and when i compile i choose Unicode.

Thanks for the replys in advance.

hi thats always when u compile the file the size is always 254 kb something abouth that...

but when u have abouth 3000 rules code the file is not bigger then 512 kb or something like that tjat problem cant be fixen u cant make the file smaller the reason they did that because peopel else wanne replace system files like dll's that u program can work as a virus that why they did that.

[MrBlue]

noo that sucks i want the file to be about 20kb or anything smaller than the org would be great any ideas on how i can do it?

[yucatan]

aint posseble in autoit

maby try to make a batch file so a test.bat or test.cmd

that u let the cmd do the jobs u want

u cant make a compiled script smaller dan 256 kb

when u have only 1 charecter in autoit and u compile it will be 256 kb size

so aint posseble sorry

[Melba23]

@MrBlue,

There is a very good reason that your compiled file is 256k plus.

When you "compile" AutoIt, it does not compile in the same way as a language such as C. Your script is added to a run-time interpreter which actually does all the work when you run the exe. This way "compiled" AutoIt exes are fully self-contained and you do not need to use run-time libraries (like many Basic languages).

So AutoIt is neither compiled nor interpreted in the classical sense, but "has been designed to be as small as possible and stand-alone with no external .dll files or registry entries required" (from the Help file).

The actual interpreter stub that "compiling" adds to your script is AutoItSC.bin, which you can find in the Aut2Exe subfolder of your AutoIt installation, and this weighs in at 612,864 bytes! So be glad that the upx compressor is also part of the package - or you would really have something to complain about!

M23