How to do an action if Autoit is closed by taskmanager?

[Juvigy]

Any way i can detect if my exe is 'end tasked' ? I would like to display a msgbox or write a log file just before the task is closed.

[javiwhite]

OnAutoITExitRegister sets @ExitCode & @ExitMethod. I would suggest playing around with that, And seeing how you get on.

Cheers

Javi

[Juvigy]

OnAutoItExitRegister("MyTestFunc")
OnAutoItExitRegister("MyTestFunc2")

Sleep(10000)

Func MyTestFunc()
    MsgBox(64, "Exit Results 1", @ExitMethod)
EndFunc   ;==>MyTestFunc

Func MyTestFunc2()
    MsgBox(64, "Exit Results 2", @ExitMethod)
EndFunc   ;==>MyTestFunc2

If i kill it with task manager i dont get any msgbox !

[Jewtus]

If you close something with task manager, it halts the process and wouldn't register an exit message if I'm not mistaken.

[Juvigy]

If you close something with task manager, it halts the process and wouldn't register an exit message if I'm not mistaken.

​Yes , indeed . So how to do it then?

[javiwhite]

Ahh i see your problem now.

A quick google of the subject shows that OnAutoITExitRegister func does not handle script crashes or force closures (Such as task manager). I would advise you have a sub process that monitors your script and is called on startup, Then add an OnExit event that creates a flag with the exit method. If the process no longer exists and the monitor picks it up, It can check for the flag, and if the flag does not exist, The script has either crashed, or been forcefully closed.

A working example:

Main.exe:

OnAutoItExitRegister("exitfunc")

ShellExecute(@WorkingDir & "\TaskMonitor.exe",@AutoItPID)
sleep(10000)

func exitFunc()
    FileWriteLine(@WorkingDir & "\ExitMethod.flg",@exitMethod)
EndFunc

TaskMonitor.exe:

if $CMDLINE[0] = 0 then Exit

while 1
    sleep(10)
    if ProcessExists($CMDLINE[1]) then ContinueLoop
    If FileExists(@WorkingDir & "\ExitMethod.flg") then
        MsgBox(0,0,"Exited via normal method")
        FileDelete(@workingDir & "\ExitMethod.flg")
    Else
        Msgbox(0,0,"Force closed or crashed")
    EndIf
    
    Exit
WEnd

 

Obviously that's a rudimentary example, But hopefully it helps get you on the right tracks.

 

Cheers

Javi

 

EDIT: added file names for example.

Edited June 8, 2015 by javiwhite

[Jewtus]

I'd say @javiwhite has the right idea, but doing it from within the script itself I don't think is possible. I have some scripts on my computer that monitor for when my services crash and automatically restart them (if the process doesn't exist, then it sends a force close to the process name just in case its stuck, then delays 10 seconds and restarts the service and waits 2 minutes).

[Juvigy]

I think i remember that it was done some time ago , but cant find the thread. It was using some kind of interception of windows messages.

[Jewtus]

Something like this?

This would do essentially what you are talking about, but again, its a different application because when you end a thread on task manager, you would need another application to catch the message because the thread has been halted and can no longer perform any functions. Its pretty easy to pack each script as an exe then create a launcher so the launcher can run in the background and capture exit codes and errors. I've even got compile commands set in some of my scripts to compile the subapps so I can deploy everything all at once. If you want an example I'll post it.

[UEZ]

@Jewtus: the functions from the link are now integrated to the _WinAPI_* lib. E.g. _WinAPI_GetParentProcess.

 

[Juvigy]

@Jewtus: I will have a look. Basically what the elegant way was doing was to intercept the 'end task' , and prevent it from executing. Then write a log / display msgbox and shutdown the app.

[zreo15]

@Jewtus: I will have a look. Basically what the elegant way was doing was to intercept the 'end task' , and prevent it from executing. Then write a log / display msgbox and shutdown the app.

​well i guess this is how you create virus if you can manage to interupt it and prevent from executing end task...... curious anyone willing to share how it can be done

Edited June 9, 2015 by zreo15

[Jewtus]

Isn't using autoit for game bots and malware against the rules?

Juvi, out of boredom I did some searching and from what I see about other programming languages and executions on windows, the only things that cannot be end tasked are windows services (native windows services... so creating a service might not work) since windows 98.

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Edited June 9, 2015 by Melba23
Suggestion removed

[Melba23]

Juvigy,

Basically what the elegant way was doing was to intercept the 'end task' , and prevent it from executing.

 Not something we want to discuss here - thread locked.

M23