SikuliX

my main.sikuli skips over import

Asked by Dalton Shehan on 2012-06-25

I have a file directory that contains all my sikuli files. It has a main.sikuli, uninstallTest.sikuli, and install.sikuli. At the beginning of uninstall and install test look like this
from sikuli import *
uninstall some stuff/install some stuff
delete some data directories/setup some stuff in newly installed software

and in the main it has something like this:

popup("Lets begin testing")
from uninstallTest import*
popup("uninstall complete")
from installTest import*
popup("install complete")

The problem I am seeing is that most the time it skips right over the uninstallTest import. So basically i'll get the first popup then the second popup then it will run the installTest import. Sometime it will run the uninstallTest which is why I dont see what I am doing wrong. As I understand long as they share the same directory thats the way to import them. Any help would be appreciated?

I am using Sikulix-1.Orc3(r905) on a windows xp

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Solved by:: RaiMan

Solved:: 2012-06-25

Last query:: 2012-06-25

Last reply:: 2012-06-25

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RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said on 2012-06-25:

Your imported modules seem to contain normal script code. This is executed only once, when the module is imported the first time after starting the IDE (hence the first run). So a second run will not execute the stuff again.

So you either have to run your script from command line (so it runs only once by definition) or use the reload feature:

import uninstall
reload(uninstall)
from uninstall import *

BTW:
from uninstall import *
is only necessary, if you use any names from the subs in your main.

see: http://sikuli.org/docx/globals.html#importing-other-sikuli-scripts-reuse-code-and-images right at the beginning.