Restart UDF

[Yashied]

LAST VERSION - 1.0

07-Mar-10

This is my very simple and small UDF. Allows you to restart the script from any location with full restoration of the original command line parameters. I use this library in several of my programs, and I was not disappointed. I hope this UDF will be useful for many as for me. I will be glad to any feedback and suggestions.

Restart UDF Library v1.0

Previous downloads: 943

Restart.au3

Example

#NoTrayIcon

#Include <Misc.au3>
#Include <Restart.au3>

_Singleton('MyProgram')

If MsgBox(36, 'Restarting...', 'Press OK to restart this script.') = 6 Then
    _ScriptRestart()
EndIf

Edited December 10, 2013 by Yashied

[Beege]

Nice Yashied. Very smart. Thank for sharing.

[gooker]

Very useful for me. thanks.

[Shafayat]

Yes, Actually very useful.

[Yashied]

Wow! It turns out that it was in demand. Thanks.

Edited March 8, 2010 by Yashied

[ReFran]

Cool,

just what I needed. I set up a tray menu based on modern menu from Holger.

For the menu I wrote a treeview based edit tool, which can handle the menu ini.

After editing the tray menu has to be restarted.

I just thought about it, so that it works for script and exe, as I saw this tool.

Works great and really easy to use - no changes, nothing complicated - only include and use.

If I find the stars button - you get it.

Best regards, Reinhard

[Yashied]

Thanks.

[semedboy]

what i needed.... thanks

[chong]

LAST VERSION - 1.0

07-Mar-10

This is my very simple and small UDF. Allows you to restart the script from any location with full restoration of the original command line parameters. I use this library in several of my programs, and I was not disappointed. I hope this UDF will be useful for many as for me. I will be glad to any feedback and suggestions.

Restart UDF Library v1.0

Restart.au3

Example

#NoTrayIcon

#Include <Misc.au3>
#Include <Restart.au3>

_Singleton('MyProgram')

If MsgBox(36, 'Restarting...', 'Press OK to restart this script.') = 6 Then
    _ScriptRestart()
EndIf

many thanks.it's perfect!

[James]

Yashied, that is actually brilliant. Very ingenious.

[PhoenixXL]

is it possible to make scite again the StdOut process for the script

So its possible to use ConsoleWrite

How to make this code write in the console

#NoTrayIcon
#Include <Misc.au3>
#Include <Restart.au3>
_Singleton('MyProgram')
If MsgBox(36, 'Restarting...', 'Press OK to restart this script.') = 6 Then
_ScriptRestart()
ConsoleWrite('-> Restarted..!')
EndIf

Edited July 18, 2012 by PhoenixXL

[JohnOne]

Your consolewrite is what is known as unreachable code, it will never get to that point.

You would need to add code, to indicate externally whether the script has been restarted.

And read it upon starting the script.

Of course upon exiting your script normally or via a crash you would need to reset whatever variable

you use, be that a text or ini file, or registry or whatever.

[PhoenixXL]

Yeah got it thanks

This works

#NoTrayIcon

#Include <Misc.au3>
#Include <Restart.au3>
_Singleton('MyProgram')
If MsgBox(36, 'Restarting...', 'Press OK to restart this script.') = 6 Then
ConsoleWrite('-> Restarted..!')
_ScriptRestart()
EndIf

[JohnOne]

Yes, but it is not strictly correct, I mean "'-> Restarting..!'" might be more apt at that point.

I'm not nitpicking, if the script fails to restart etc...

[JScript]

Simple and efficient, very helpful, avoid workarounds for the same purpose!

Thank you!

---

João Carlos.

[K0valski]

Hi all,

thanks for this UDF, very usefull !

But sometimes, i encounter a problem :

My users run my program from the network :   \\myserver\share\program.exe

When i need to update my program, i replace my program.exe with a new version.  The name is still program.exe  but it is in version2 now (vesus version 1 before)

So i have overwritten my program.exe with a new program.exe, the version 1 does'nt exist anymore but users are still executing it.

When i restart my program, the users which where executing the version1 should be now in version 2 after restart.

But not always, sometimes some users remains with the version 1 , even severals days after it has been replaced. (Something which looks like a cache problem from windows).

=> I've looked your code: restart.au3 does this: run the exe, get the new PID, send the actuel PID to the new process, and send an exit. The new program wait until the old process die and then goes on.

In this way, we start the program, before killing the old one.   My 'cache' probleme may come from that.

 

do you have any idea for me ?

I know this is not an autoit problem but you have good ideas there ^^

thanks !

Nicolas.

[K0valski]

hi guys !

I reply to myself, but still got the problem.

So, i found another similar case today, i used process explorer to check location , path, etc of the executable being used and it indicate my network path.

Nothing that help me on that point.

I have to take the time to make a real stop and start, using a second distinct program. And i know i won't have the problem anymore...

[mLipok]

I added it here:

https://www.autoitscript.com/wiki/User_Defined_Functions#Misc

 

Edited April 26, 2016 by mLipok

[Joro]

Hi,

I have the udf Restart.au3 included in my script but I have the following problem and can't find where it goes wrong;

When I start my script without compiling it first, Restart.au3 works fine. It restarts the script.

But when I compile the script it won't restart. I don't get any errormessages.

Does anyone have an idea?

[boat_58]

Is there a way to use this script to force restart a script with a push of a key? Like how there is a stop script and pause script functions.