Forums Feature Suggestions Extention of /run

It would be great if /run could wait for a program to finish and then return the result (if any). Any plans on implenting that?

/RUN launches a new process; once launched, mIRC does not control it anymore than your desktop mIRC icon can control mIRC after it launches it. It's the same principle as firing a bullet from a gun: once launched, the bullet reports nothing back to the gun that launched it. It's "fire and forget."

just a guess, but can't com be used to do that?

A dll might be able to, as would a COM object that you coded specifically to work with mIRC (like you would for a dll). However, neither of those use /run. ;p

my /sleep snippet takes advantage of COM's ability to wait for programs to return. you can take a look at the script file if you're interested...

Yes thats exactly what run does, and he is asking to have it do differently...

> It would be great if /run could wait for a program to finish and then return the result (if any).

Here is a solution using COM that will work...

really only $myrun.a is needed, but be aware that halting script execution like this could be very bad in events (signal events are ok to use in)

alias myrun { .timerRun $+ $ctime 1 0 myrun.t $1- }
alias myrun.t { aecho Return: $myrun.a($1-) }
alias myrun.a {
var %Return | var %Com | set %Com %Member $+ $ticks
.comopen %Com WScript.Shell
if (!$comerr) {
set %Return $com(%Com,Run,3,bstr,$1,int,5,bool,1)
if (%Return == 0) { return $null }
set %Return $com(%Com).result
.comclose %Com
return %Return
}
return $null
}