If Process Not Exist then Start It...?

[sparuj]

I'm sorry for bringing old topics back to life,

but after using @DW1's script and try to do a run after it opens notepad.exe it won't load the program.

This is what I'm doing:

$StartTimer = TimerInit() ; Define the initial time we will be comparing to later
$process = "notepad.exe" ; define the process
$exe = @SystemDir & "\notepad.exe" ; Define the executable
Checkprocess() ; Run our checkprocess() function on initial execute
While 1 ; Infinite Loop Condition is always true, you can exit these loops with "ExitLoop"
    If TimerDiff($StartTimer) > 60000 Then ; Only run the conditional code if the difference in time is greater than 1 min (60000 Miliseconds)
        Checkprocess()
    EndIf
    Sleep(10) ; So we don't kill the CPU
WEnd ; End of While Loop
Func Checkprocess()
    If Not ProcessExists($process) Then Run($exe) ; checks if process exists.. If not, it will Run the process
    $StartTimer = TimerInit() ; Reset the timer since the script just ran
EndFunc   ;==>Checkprocess

Sleep(1000)

Run("Pathtoexe/photoshop.exe")

 

Edited October 15, 2020 by Melba23
Added link to split post

[Melba23]

sparuj,

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I'm sorry for bringing old topics back to life

So in future please do not - start a new thread and link to the old one, as I have done for you.

M23

[Melba23]

sparuj,

You never leave the While...WEnd loop after starting Notepad in the Checkprogress function - so you never actually run the line to start Photoshop.

If you explain in detail what it is you want to do, we can suggest a suitable logic to do it - which will not look that different but will work as you wish.

M23

[Confuzzled]

Is this something you could just include by inserting an entry in Windows Task Scheduler? You have auto-restart facilities, delayed starts, all sorts of options.