Creating a compiled script from another?

[Tomoya]

I currently have a script (Read "Idea") that I am wanting to work on where I will be giving the user the ability to customize the actual compiled script via settings in a precompiled script I give them.

I am trying to see if that is possible and if so how you would go about doing it. Essentially it would have to recreate the given code using something like FileWrite() and then compile it into a .exe for them to run from there.

Edit: Ok I think I have this figured out after goofing around for a sec and think I have solved my own question by running the autoit.exe with the command line arguments to compile the script. Off to test!

Edited January 12, 2013 by Tomoya

[Melba23]

Tomoya,

What you want to do is quite possible - I did it as a coding exercise myself some time ago.

Just remember that you will need to FileInstall both Aut2Exe.exe and AutoItSC.bin if AutoIt is not installed on the user's machine.

M23

[Tomoya]

Tomoya,

What you want to do is quite possible - I did it as a coding exercise myself some time ago.

Just remember that you will need to FileInstall both Aut2Exe.exe and AutoItSC.bin if AutoIt is not installed on the user's machine.

M23

I was just wondering how I would do that with the autoit.exe and I guess FileInstall() is the perfect solution. I was reading somewhere about a programming "game" that someone used to play with languages with their friends where they would try to get the program to echo it's source code in as few lines as possible. It's actually quite fun to try.

Thanks where I got the idea, thanks for the help.

Edited January 12, 2013 by Tomoya

[Tomoya]

Maybe I am missing something but every time I try to run the following code I get a popup box from Aut2exe.exe saying "Command Line Parameters:" and listing them out. Is this correct?

ShellExecute("Aut2exe.exe", " /in <B:\Folder\Auto It\TestScript\Test\Test.au3>")

[Jos]

try:

ShellExecute("Aut2exe.exe", ' /in "B:\Folder\Auto It\TestScript\Test\Test.au3"')

jos

Edited January 12, 2013 by Jos

[Tomoya]

try:

ShellExecute("Aut2exe.exe", ' /in "B:\Folder\Auto It\TestScript\Test\Test.au3"')

jos

That works. I guess the helpfile was a little misleading on the subject and I followed it to literal.