External program detection issue

Welcome to our brand new Clickteam Community Hub! We hope you will enjoy using the new features, which we will be further expanding in the coming months.

A few features including Passport are unavailable initially whilst we monitor stability of the new platform, we hope to bring these online very soon. Small issues will crop up following the import from our old system, including some message formatting, translation accuracy and other things.

Thank you for your patience whilst we've worked on this and we look forward to more exciting community developments soon!

Clickteam.

    Hey peeps.

    Any way for Funsion 2.5 to detect if an external program is present. For example.

    If > c:\start.exe is detected. > Reappear active object1

    If > c:\start.exe is not detected. > Go to frame 3

    An example would be much appreciated or an explanation.

    Many thanks guys,
    Dave.

    Yes, you could use the File object to check if the file you're looking for exists. What's your exact scenario - are you looking for a file that's part of your game, or something installed elsewhere? The second option may be tricky.

    Please login to see this link.
    Please login to see this link.

    Hi David,

    I'm making a games console and part of the boot sequence is to detect weather or not an external .exe is found on a removable drive.

    So scenario is this.

    Computer boots into Windows 7 > explorer.exe is replaced by my Clickteam.exe

    Once Clickteam application is loaded, it tries to detect d:\start.exe (d:\ being a removable drive)

    If D:\Start.exe is found application closes and launches Start.exe on D:\

    If Start.exe is not found on D:\ goes to next frame or something stating error message.

    Thanks. I will try what you said.

    The tricky part might be knowing the exact directory, unless you have that predetermined in your events. I've been trying to figure out a way to use process viewer to determine if a program is running, then jot down the directory location of that program. So if that's what you need, there might be complications.

Participate now!

Don’t have an account yet? Register yourself now and be a part of our community!

Register Yourself Login