Starting new project - Is this possible? If, where to begin?

[MadCoder]

We have an SVN that I need to protect our code being copied to USB drives. I started the project in C# but ran in to a few

problems along the way, and saw a few people have done this soft of thing in Autoit. I have a little experience in Autoit, and figure why not

give it a try. Some of this I can handle through a shell process in C#. For example emailing the attachment, but if I can get it all

done in one script, then that would be great.

Here's my projects layout:

- exe runs as a service and strictly monitors for USB thumb drives to be detected?

- Once detected, checks against an array of file extensions (.cs,.py,.c,.asm,.lua, etc...) that are begin copied to drive<br>

- logs files copied to thumb drive to a file

- Emails the log as an attachment to me

Is this doable in Autoit, or should I look for another alternatives?

Edited September 4, 2013 by MadCoder

[rudi]

Hi.

1. Exe as a service? -> see FAQ
2. just loop through your array, use filecopy()
3. fileopen(), filewriteline(), fileclose(), filecopy()
4. my personal suggestion: blat.exe, fileinstall(), runwait("blat.exe .....")

regards, Rudi.

Edited September 4, 2013 by rudi

[abberration]

Some threads that may help you:

Detect USB drive:

Making a list of files:

'?do=embed' frameborder='0' data-embedContent>>

Email with attachment (I think it has trouble with Gmail):

Functions that will also help: _ArraySearch and _FileWriteLog.

[orbs]

speaking as Advocatus Diaboli here, what stops your determined user from stopping the service? what stops him from connecting to your SVN from a pc that does not have your program installed on?

i do hope you are requested to do that for regulatory purposes only, as practically, it is very hard to enforce, and a determined user will find the way to override it.

i'm asking, because i did encounter the same requirement more than once, so i'm interested in your point of view.