Noobie Question

[Euth]

Hello all,

I am in the beginning stages of writing a complex script to handle all the tedious clicking at work. I'm a support specialist and our call system requires 54 clicks to process a call. Most of the things we do to process a call is the same, thus creating a macro should be pretty easy. The problem I am having is trying to figure out how to exit or end the parent function if a nested function detects an error popup.

I have looked at exitloop, which looks great because you can give it a level, but I don't think that's going to work in a function (since it's not actually a loop). Exit looks good but doesn't have a level option. I believe I could create the error detect function to set a global variable and then have the parent function check for that variable after the nested function ends and then exit if it's set, but I would like to have a single function to check for this error popup and tell the parent function to exit. I will have to check for this error popup between each of the clicks (54 clicks just for the call process function, let alone the other functions I will be writing) so getting it down to a single function would be best.

I am an experienced PHP developer so picking up this AutoIt language was fairly easy for me to get started. However, I've never had to do anything like this in PHP so I don't really know if what I am trying to do it possible.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

[muncherw]

What do you mean by "ending the parent function"? Are you wanting to end the program entirely if you get the error popup?

[Euth]

Something like this

func myfunc ()
_click($var1,$var2)
_checkforerror()
_click($var3,$var4)
_checkforerror()

endfunc

If the for check for error produces an error, the whole function exits.

This there is no _click @ $var3,$var4.

Hopefully that helps explain things a bit.

I don't want to exit the script entirely. I want to exit myfunc().

I'd post my code, but right now I am just writing the error checking functions, thus I don't have a pertinent example.

Edited May 1, 2009 by Euth

[muncherw]

Can you not put the whole thing in a while loop that runs as long as _checkforerror() doesn't have an error?

[MrMitchell]

Say Function1() calls Function2() somewhere within.

I would just state in Function1:

If NOT Function2() Then Exit

Then have Function2 return 1 on success or 0 on failure. That way if it fails due to some error and returns 0, then Function1 will Exit instead of continue. That's the approach I've always taken, so now I'm curious to read about all these different solutions...

[Euth]

Can you not put the whole thing in a while loop that runs as long as _checkforerror() doesn't have an error?

I never thought of that.

That may be the answer I need.

I'll proceed. If I have problems, I'll be back.

Thanks a bunch for the idea.

[Euth]

Say Function1() calls Function2() somewhere within.

I would just state in Function1:

If NOT Function2() Then Exit

Then have Function2 return 1 on success or 0 on failure. That way if it fails due to some error and returns 0, then Function1 will Exit instead of continue. That's the approach I've always taken, so now I'm curious to read about all these different solutions...

Both great suggestions!!!

Thank you both for the great insight!