Determining if a file is in use

[bradley1]

Forgive me if this is question is somewhat basic, but here's the deal:

I have two computers that are networked together. If the first computer (named "main") has a file open and the second computer tries to open the file like so -

$File = FileOpen("//main/inv.txt",2)
$FileWriteLine($File,Price[5] & "," & Price[6])

I get an error. I think that when the "main" computer has this file open (which will be the case sometimes and there's no way around that) I get the error:

AutoIt Error

Line 0 (File "C:\bot.txt"):

$FileWriteLine($File,Price[5] & "," & Price[6])

Error: Invalid File Handle used

I have searched the helpfile for a solution and haven't found a specific function to use, but basically I need a way to tell if another user has this file open. Does AutoIt Have this capability or something in the works? Or is there an easy fix that I'm just not thinking of?

Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks. BTW, AutoIT rocks - I have been able to learn it fairly quickly and have done some pretty cool stuff with it.

-Brad

Edited July 25, 2006 by bradley1

[MHz]

Look at the example of FileOpen in the Helpfile. The example shows use of error checking to help eliminate problems.

$file = FileOpen("test.txt", 0)

; Check if file opened for reading OK

If $file = -1 Then

MsgBox(0, "Error", "Unable to open file.")

Exit

EndIf

Edited July 25, 2006 by MHz

[bradley1]

Sounds like a simple fix...I was familiar with @error and such but didn't even think to use it here. Thanks a ton.

-Brad