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[wolflake]

Hi,

I'd like to write a program that can be renamed but when it's run be able to know what it's new name is.

example:

a.exe is run and a message box opens and says my name is a

a.exe is renamed to b.exe

b.exe is run and a message box opens and says my name is b

Thanks in advance for your help.

-Rick

[jchd]

@ScriptName is just what you need.

[GEOSoft]

Perhaps it's just my suspicious nature but I see some potential for nasties in this type of request.

[zeffy]

@ScriptName is just what you need.

Or rather, if he just wants to have the file name without the extension

$ext = StringRight(@ScriptName, 4)
$name = StringReplace(@ScriptName, $ext, "")
MsgBox(64, "Hello World!", "My name is " & $name & ", what's yours?")

Perhaps it's just my suspicious nature but I see some potential for nasties in this type of request.

Heh, I could see several different uses for it, I implemented something similar in one of my scripts to name it's Ini file after the script in case it gets renamed. Edited May 12, 2010 by zeffy

[wolflake]

Or rather, if he just wants to have the file name without the extension

$ext = StringRight(@ScriptName, 4)
$name = StringReplace(@ScriptName, $ext, "")
MsgBox(64, "Hello World!", "My name is " & $name & ", what's yours?")

Heh, I could see several different uses for it, I implemented something similar in one of my scripts to name it's Ini file after the script in case it gets renamed.

Yes that's exactly what I want it for. This program will have an ini file to go with it and it could be used for different things so it will be renamed for the different uses and I want it to look for it's complimentary ini.

Thank you again for your help.

[omikron48]

Reminds me of the time I made a "shortcut" script. It's basically a compiled AutoIt script which uses an ini file to set the program path and working folder used in a Run function. The plus side of using it is that I can use relative paths for the settings and I didn't have to resort to using a batch script and have to see an annoying console window.

[wolflake]

Reminds me of the time I made a "shortcut" script. It's basically a compiled AutoIt script which uses an ini file to set the program path and working folder used in a Run function. The plus side of using it is that I can use relative paths for the settings and I didn't have to resort to using a batch script and have to see an annoying console window.

My script is also a shortcut script. I use xplorer2 which has a command line. One of the machines I use it on I can't set paths to the original file and I would like to pass parameters which I can't do with regular shortcuts (well you can with the start in but it's always the same parameter). So I'm setting up an ini with the program you call on the first line. From there it passes the paramater to the program. Also you can have a second line with a command and parameter substitution. ie.

C:\autoit.exe

msgbox(0,"%1","%2")

where %1 and %2 are replaced by parameters typed in the command line (like in a batch file).