Save variable in registry?

[Guest PaulF]

I need to save a variable for use in AutoIt to determine how many times a script has run. Is the easiest way to store a variable in the registry? If so, what do you recommend as the best convention for picking a user registry address?

PaulF

[this-is-me 6]

RegWrite("HKCU\Software\yourscriptname", "runs", "REG_SZ", $runtimes)

Edited November 14, 2004 by this-is-me

[ezzetabi 3]

Or use a ini file.

$c = IniRead('@scriptdir & '\runs.ini','Main','NumOfTimes',1)

$c = $c +1

IniWrite('@scriptdir & '\runs.ini','Main','NumOfTimes',$c)

[JSThePatriot 17]

I would like to ask before offering a different solution what it is that you would need to count how many times a script has run for... and would the script be looping, or would it actually close open close open etc?

Let me know.

JS

[Guest PaulF]

I would like to ask before offering a different solution what it is that you would need to count how many times a script has run for... and would the script be looping, or would it actually close open close open etc?

The script is one I run at the end of each day to do maintenance - clone partitions, cleanup files, run AdAware, SpyBot, etc. My backup procedure is to clone the data partition each run of the script. On the seventh run, I want to clone the entire disk. I use the run count to decide if this is my seventh run. I would rather do this than use day of the week, because I may be away from ny computer for some days, and I want to base the counting on days I actually used the computer.

PaulF

[scriptkitty 1]

Ini or registry is about the same.

$c = IniRead('@scriptdir & '\runs.ini','Main','NumOfTimes',1)
$c = $c +1
if $c/7=int($c/7) then clonedisk()
IniWrite('@scriptdir & '\runs.ini','Main','NumOfTimes',$c)

something like that.

$c=Regread("HKCU\Software\yourscriptname", "runs", "REG_SZ", 1)
$c = $c +1
if $c/7=int($c/7) then clonedisk()
RegWrite("HKCU\Software\yourscriptname", "runs", "REG_SZ", $c)