Do Something Once

[PcExpert]

Hello,

How to do sonething once?

For example: You want that the program you made displays a messagebox at the first time, but after the first time it doesn't appear anymore.

[Infinitex0]

Perhaps something with a .ini

[NightGaunt]

Or set a HKCU regkey if you don't like ini files...

[PcExpert]

Can someone make a example of that with notepad, that there's popping up a msgbox once? at first startup

Edited April 14, 2006 by PcExpert

[herewasplato]

Run("notepad")
WinWait("Untitled - Notepad")

For $i = 1 To 3
    If $i = 1 Then
        MsgBox(0, "", "First time thru the loop")
    Else
        ControlSend("Untitled - Notepad", _
                "", "Edit1", _
                "This is loop number " _
                 & $i & @CR)
    EndIf
Next

or

Run("notepad")
WinWait("Untitled - Notepad")

For $i = 1 To 3
    If $i = 1 Then MsgBox(0, "", "First time thru the loop")

    ControlSend("Untitled - Notepad", _
            "", "Edit1", _
            "This is loop number " _
             & $i & @CR)
Next

Edited April 14, 2006 by herewasplato

[Jango]

Can someone make a example of that with notepad, that there's popping up a msgbox once? at first startup

Hi,

Here is a very simple thing we do in our login.bat batch file:

CD %userprofile%

If Exist Client.txt Goto EndClient

\\x_server\Update\Client\xyz.exe /s

echo Client installed >>Client.txt
attrib Client.txt +R +H

:EndClient

The CD place the working dir in the user profile and create a file .txt in it then hide it. next time it starts the file exists and nothing is don anymore...

you can easily do it with AutoIt in the @TempDir for example...

[PcExpert]

But if I run the last script again it still displays the msgbox

[herewasplato]

But if I run the last script again it still displays the msgbox

Well now I know for sure what you want... maybe NightGaunt will be willing to post an example of "Or set a HKCU regkey if you don't like ini files..."

[Simucal]

The registry functions here seem useful:

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...545&hl=registry

[NightGaunt]

Well now I know for sure what you want... maybe NightGaunt will be willing to post an example of "Or set a HKCU regkey if you don't like ini files..."

Dim $Registry = "HKCU\AutoItRo\"
Dim $RegKey = "Start"
Dim $RegCheck
;Dim $RegValue (Not Used, I was going to use this to increment)


$RegCheck = RegRead ($Registry, $Regkey)
if @error = 1 Then  regwrite ($Registry, $Regkey, "Reg_SZ", "0");(Basically if it doesn't exist create and set to 0)

$RegCheck = RegRead ($Registry, $Regkey)
if $RegCheck = 0 then 
    msgbox (0x10, "Fight Club", "You do not talk about fight club.")
    regwrite ($Registry, $Regkey, "REG_SZ", "1")
EndIf
if $RegCheck = 1 Then
    msgbox (0x10, "Fight Club", "Tyler Durden Says: Use Soap")
    regwrite ($Registry, $Regkey, "REG_SZ", "2")
EndIf

If I was really doing this I may set a numerical key for the "2" and "1" and then increment it. But this "quick and dirty" method should clear it up.

[MHz]

Or, as mentioned by Infinitex0, an ini file.

$file_ini = @AppDataDir & '\MyProgram\Settings.ini'
If Not FileExists($file_ini) Or Not Int(IniRead($file_ini, 'section', 'intro', 0)) Then
    MsgBox(0, '', 'This program has not been used yet')
    DirCreate(@AppDataDir & '\MyProgram')
    IniWrite($file_ini, 'section', 'intro', 1)
EndIf

[PcExpert]

Thanks

[JerryD]

Thanks

There's also the registry keys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

and

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

You can create a key with a string value of the command you want to run.

If you put it in HKCU, it will run the next time that user logs in, and then the key self deletes.

If you use HKLM, it will run for the next person that logs in and then self delete.

Typically you use HKLM unless you're setting up an image which will be SysPrep'd in which case you'd want to put an entry in the key:

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

and then the first time a new user logs in, whatever is in that key will run once for that user.

See:

Using RunOnce Technology

J