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I use in my publication Opus + AutoIt. Want to send the value of several variables. While in the head only to Opus write data to a text file in the lines, but AutoIt app read them.

I am not sure if this will work?? but look at the CmdLine in Autoit.

from the help file:---------------------------------------------------
Command Line Parameters
The special array $CmdLine is initialized with the command line parameters passed in to your AutoIt script. Note the scriptname is not classed as a parameter; get this information with @ScriptName instead. A parameter that contains spaces must be surrounded by "double quotes". Compiled scripts accept command line parameters in the same way.

$CmdLine[0] is number of parameters
$CmdLine[1] is param 1 (after the script name)
$CmdLine[2] is param 2 etc
...
$CmdLine[$CmdLine[0]] is one way to get the last parameter...



So if your script is run like this:

AutoIt3.exe myscript.au3 param1 "this is another param"

$CmdLine[0] equals... 2

$CmdLine[1] equals... param1

$CmdLine[2] equals... this is another param

@ScriptName equals... myscript.au3



In addition to $CmdLine there is a variable called $CmdLineRaw that contains the entire command line unsplit, so for the above example:

$CmdLineRaw equals... myscript.au3 param1 "this is another param"



If the script was compiled it would have been run like this:

myscript.exe param1 "this is another param"

$CmdLineRaw equals... param1 "this is another param"

Note that $CmdLineRaw just return the parameters.



Note : only 63 parameters can be return by $CmdLine[...], but $CmdLineRaw will always returns the entire command line.
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So in Opus you would run the 'myscript.exe' and have param1 and param2 passed in from Opus.
In Autoit, $CmdLine[1] would give you param1 and $CmdLine[2] would give you param2
But I haven't tried it.

Sandy

Thanks you, sandyn.
As something to try to understand this:)
In the meantime, I just write the variable to a text file, then reads the variable to AutoIt and immediately remove:)