Running A Set Of Commands Once

[anyday]

is it possible to run a few commands at the start of the script only the first time the script is ruN?

[Nuffilein805]

yes it is you just have to write a value somewhere or have a specific thing that you can only see when you've already run the script once

e.g.

if not fileexist (@tempdir & "\checkfile.chk") then
;do whatever you want to do at first start
filewriteline (@tempdir & "\checkfile.chk", ".")
endif
;here is the rest of your script

hope this helps you

[anyday]

yea thanks man i will try it out, but yea seems like that would do it.

[MHz]

To ensure it is the 1st code executed, then you can use OnAutoItStart(). AutoIt will look for this function as the 1st code to run before anything else.

Func OnAutoItStart()
;Code here
;...
;...
EndFunc

[Xenobiologist]

HI,

if you know that it is the first run you can also do something like this

If $CmdLine[0] > 0 And $CmdLine[1] = "firstRun" Then
do some stuff
Endif

So long,

Mega

[anyday]

Nuffilein805,

I get the following error with your code

if not fileexist (@ScriptDir & "\checkfile.chk") then

if not ^ERROR

Error: Unknown function name.

n/m i see the prob should be FileExists

Works great, thanks

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MHz

The code you posted works good but it runs every time the script is ran i only need it to run the very first time a user runs the script

Edited March 25, 2006 by anyday