Return Value

[Guest atenspro]

I modified the example in the help under "Registry Management" for RegDelete to create a script. It works fine and deletes the registry value I need to delete. But it doesn't give me a return value, or at least I can't see the return value (or maybe I don't know where to look for the return value?). It would be great to see a value to know it was successful instead of using regedit to verify it. I may be doing it all wrong. But it does delete the value.

Here is my script:

RegDelete("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run", "MyValue")

If it's possible, I would like to see these values taken from the help file for AutoIt:

Return Value:

Success: Returns 1.

Special: Returns 0 if the key/value does not exist.

Failure: Returns 2 if error deleting key/value.

I apologize if my question isn't clear. If you need more info just ask.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

[GaryFrost]

$val = RegDelete("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run", "MyValue")
MsgBox(0,"Value",$val)

[Guest atenspro]

$val = RegDelete("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run", "MyValue")
MsgBox(0,"Value",$val)

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

It worked! Thanks for "schoolin me"

[Guest atenspro]

Now I have another question.

Is there a way to get a return value that spells it out rather than just a number?

I mean that says "Successfully deleted" or "Value does not exist" or "Error deleting value".

Thanks again for your quick response and the correct answer to my first question.

[SupraNatural]

Yea, for example

if $val = 1 then

msgbox(0,"Success","Successfully deleted")

endif

[GaryFrost]

Normally no, usually a scripter creates conditions

example

$val = RegDelete("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run", "MyValue")

if $val = 0 then
  MsgBox(0,"RegDelete","key/value does not exist")
elseif $val = 1 then
  MsgBox(0,"RegDelete", "Successfull")
elseif $val = 2 then
  MsgBox(0,"RegDelete", "error deleting key/value")
endif

[Guest atenspro]

gafrost.....Thanks again!

It's been many years since I played around with "Basic" but this reminds me of that time. Your conditional statements were perfect for what I was trying to do.

Thanks again for taking the time to spell it out for me.