How to start autoit script from VSCode?

[Vitaliy4us]

I am trying to run *.au3 script from VSCode. I installed some plugins: Damien, 4ern, Code Runner but non of them could be used for this aim. Code editor works fine and the code is highlighted, but if I try to run the code I get an error: 

Line 0 (File "c:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\SciTE\AutoIt3Wrapper\AutoIt3Wrapper.au3");

Error: Error opening the file.

The script works fine by running it from SciTE editor

Edited July 21, 2020 by Vitaliy4us

[Sidley]

There's several ways to do this, you could compile the script to an executable and run that, you could add the AutoIt3.exe to the PATH variables so that the command line can run it from anywhere. If you want to just run a file without these two, this works:

string pathToAutoIt;
            string pathToScript;
            pathToAutoIt = @"C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\AutoIt3.exe";
            pathToScript = @"\path\to\script.au3";
            Process externalProcess = new Process();
            externalProcess.StartInfo.FileName = pathToAutoIt;
            externalProcess.StartInfo.Arguments = pathToScript;
            externalProcess.Start();
            externalProcess.WaitForExit();
            externalProcess.Dispose();

 

[genius257]

I personally use the damien.autoit extension and have no problem.

Have you verified that the AutoIt3Wrapper.au3 file exists at the location?

Edit:

If no, then try installing this: https://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit-script-editor/downloads/

Edited July 23, 2020 by genius257

[Earthshine]

yeah, but i think i had to modify the path in a JSON file to get it to work