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[magOO]

Hello!

I have many little Update-Files for my Database. Until now i have to Double-Click on the Files in the Explorer to Update the Database. And so i think AutoIt is perfect to do this Job. But I try to create a Script with FindFirst, FindNext and Run but it didn't work for me.

The Script should start every File (*.upf) that is in the Directory from where the Script starts.

Because I#m new with AutoIt i hope that somebody give me an example Script.

Many Thanks For Your Help!

magOO

[scriptkitty]

If is registered to automatically open, try this:

; Shows the filenames of all files in the current directory
$search = FileFindFirstFile("*.upf")  
; Check if the search was successful
If $search = -1 Then
    MsgBox(0, "Error", "No files/directories matched the search pattern")
    Exit
EndIf

While 1
    $file = FileFindNextFile($search) 
    If @error Then ExitLoop
 RunWait('start '&$file)  ; this waits till each is done before it continues.
; Run('start '&$file)  ; this will start it and go to the next file if it opens or not.

;    MsgBox(4096, "File:", $file)
WEnd

; Close the search handle
FileClose($search)

It will open each file individually. Comment out runwait and remove the ; comment tag in front of run if you wish to have them run simultaneously.

[scriptkitty]

Run('start '&$file) is kind of cheating. Basically you should give the application name and path, and then send the commandline to it. For example:

Run('C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE http://www.hiddensoft.com')
Run('start http://www.hiddensoft.com')

Start will open up a command window temporarly, and run the default program associated with the extention. If you open it directly with the program, you have more options.

In this example, you won't see the command window, but you will see explorer start up.

Run('start http://www.hiddensoft.com','',@SW_HIDE)

in this one, I started it minimised.

Run('C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE http://www.hiddensoft.com','',@SW_MINIMIZE)

If you use Start, you can't control how the actual program starts up.

After a few scripts you can choose exactly how you want it to work, and know why it works like it does.

[magOO]

Many Thanks for the Code!