AHK Help anyone?

[ak_]

Here's how i would do it :

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Activate:
Loop %ProgramFiles%\Dr. Windows\*.exe
{
  FileList = %A_LoopFileLongPath%`n%FileList%
}
StringSplit File, FileList, `n
random rnd, 1, %File0%
fileToRun = File%rnd%
fileToRun := %fileToRun%
Run %fileToRun%

Maybe there's a simpler solution but it works.

[wreckedcarzz]

OK cool, I will give it a go and see what happens. Thanks a lot, this was really getting annoying getting irrelevant search results 

[ak_]

You're welcome

By the way, i found out that this has the same result and takes less code :

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Loop %ProgramFiles%\Dr. Windows\*.exe
{
  FileList = %A_LoopFileLongPath%`n%FileList%
}
StringSplit File, FileList, `n
random rnd, 1, %File0%
Run % File%rnd%

I didn't know about this "% " thing and it's very convenient.

[wreckedcarzz]

New problem!

Ok, so here is what I am trying to do (as simply explained as possible):

I need a script to be able to check the date that a file was CREATED. I think I got this part down...

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FileGetTime, TimeToFix, fixschedule.txt, C
Return

But here is the problem- How do I make the script do X after Y amount of time has passed? I thought about it for a while and still don't get it. Variables aren't my thing

ex:

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If %TimeToFix% > amount of time (week?)
Run myjunk.exe
else
Return

Does anyone understand? Am I just talking to the wall, and no one knows where I am coming from or what I am trying to do? Can anyone give any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
-Brandon

[lanux128]

try without enclosing the variable in quotes, also you need to define formatting for TimeToFix since FileGetTime returns the date in this format: YYYYMMDDHH24MISS

Note: Date-time values can be compared, added to, or subtracted from via EnvAdd and EnvSub. Also, it is best to not use greater-than or less-than to compare times unless they are both the same string length. This is because they would be compared as numbers; for example, 20040201 is always numerically less (but chronologically greater) than 200401010533. So instead use EnvSub to find out whether the amount of time between them is positive or negative.

-Autohotkey.chm

[TheQwerty]

You probably want something like:

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;Get the current time.
now := A_Now

;Subtract the creation time from current (give result in days, other options listed under EnvSub)
now -= %TimeToFix%, Days

if (now > 7) {
Run myjunk.exe
}
return

[BinderDundat]

Does anyone have a basic reference for ahk scripting concepts.  The help file is nice, but I have trouble doing anything more complex than creating hotkeys mainly because I really don't know basic concepts.  The wiki on ahk is really incomplete and I have a few really basic projects that I can't make happen despite trying several plausible approaches.  I don't want to have you all writing trivial scripts for me, so if you know of a useful resource - even a different language that shares concepts with ahk - I would be grateful.

[jgpaiva]

I think that the perfect place to start would be skrommel's 1hour software site, there are lots of scripts over there, and some of those are quite complex!