Return code from a console application

[agubler]

Hi all

I have a compiled autoit console application and i would like to get it to output a return code so that the application that runs the application can detect whether it has successfully completed or not.

Does anyone know how this could be done?

Thanks

Anthony

[Pain]

Look at the I/O parameter at Run. $STDIN_CHILD, $STDOUT_CHILD and $STDERR_CHILD.

[agubler]

Look at the I/O parameter at Run. $STDIN_CHILD, $STDOUT_CHILD and $STDERR_CHILD.

i am not running the app from AutoIT's run command i am exceuting an application built using AutoIT compile for console use with an external program (luntbuild if you have heard of it). i need to pass back to the program whether the AutoIT exe has completed with or with out errors and return code to indicating this.

Does this make any sense?

[azure]

i am not running the app from AutoIT's run command i am exceuting an application built using AutoIT compile for console use with an external program (luntbuild if you have heard of it). i need to pass back to the program whether the AutoIT exe has completed with or with out errors and return code to indicating this.

Does this make any sense?

From the AutoIT Help File:

Exit [return code]

Parameters

return code [optional] Integer that sets the script's return code. This code can be used by Windows or the DOS variable %ERRORLEVEL%. The default is 0. Scripts normally set an errorlevel of 0 if the script executed properly; error levels 1 and above typically indicate that the script did not execute properly. 

The code can be retrieved in a Func OnAutoItExit() by @EXITCODE.

[rasim]

@agubler

Hope this will help

[rasim]

OK. Example:

Compile this code:

#AutoIt3Wrapper_OutFile=C:\StdOut_demo.exe

#include <WinAPI.au3>

$hStdOut = _WinAPI_GetStdHandle(1)
If $hStdOut = -1 Then Exit MsgBox(0, "Error", "GetStdHandle failed")

$tBUFFER = DllStructCreate("char[1024]")
DllStructSetData($tBUFFER, 1, "Hello world!")
$iWrite = 512

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Edited January 15, 2009 by rasim

[taz742]

You want that your autoit script compiled as a console application return data why do not simply use:

ConsoleWrite() for return data and ConsoleWriteError() for @error code.

Compile this code:

#AutoIt3Wrapper_OutFile=C:\StdOut_demo.exe
#AutoIt3Wrapper_Change2CUI=y; needed only if your really want a console application

; your code

$ReturnData = "Hello World!" ;this could be data binary if needed
$ReturnError = 0;
ConsoleWrite($ReturnData)
ConsoleWriteError($ReturnError)
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Edited January 15, 2009 by taz742

[agubler]

From the AutoIT Help File:

Exit [return code]

Parameters

return code [optional] Integer that sets the script's return code. This code can be used by Windows or the DOS variable %ERRORLEVEL%. The default is 0. Scripts normally set an errorlevel of 0 if the script executed properly; error levels 1 and above typically indicate that the script did not execute properly. 

The code can be retrieved in a Func OnAutoItExit() by @EXITCODE.

Thanks everyone for all their responses! i didn't realise it would be as easy easy as "EXIT [RETURN CODE]", but i have tested this and works for me.

Thanks again