Run command on file execution

[j_stam_84]

Hi everybody,

Would it be possible with AutoIT to set up a global "monitor" and execute a command when opening a random file ?

Grtz,

JJ

[scriptkitty]

set up a loop, and monitor the processlist. when a new process is added, give it a random chance to do something.

maybe something like this?

$list1=ProcessList()
while 1
sleep(5000)
$list2 = ProcessList()
if $list1[0][0]=$list2[0][0] then
else
     $list1[0][0]=$list2[0][0]
     if int(random(1,6)=4 then dosomething()
endif

wend

this will also randomly execute when a proccess stops. It is easy to change, just didn't want to do all the work for ya....

side note, this is when they open a random exe, if they just open an additional file in a program already open it wouldn't work.

Edited May 23, 2005 by scriptkitty

[j_stam_84]

Hi scriptkiddy!

Thanks for your reply

Thought of that solution aswell but with that setup, the process would already be running.. and I don't want that

I think it has to be something like with the IE example (don't have it here... );

when downloading, you can monitor the progress of the download (via the IE object).

grtz,

JJ

[MSLx Fanboy]

You could enumerate file handles linking to the certain file, and when the filehandle exists in Windows, have it run the function. I don't think AutoIt has it built in natively, however, there's probably a DLL for it already (Microsoft might have one built in )

SysInternals has a GUI version to track applications and what files they access FileMon. There might be a CMDLine backend, but it atleast gives you an idea, I hope...

Edited May 25, 2005 by MSLx Fanboy