Run Your Application On Startup

sinner · **Joined:** Sat May 27, 2006 3:27 pm **Posts:** 480

Hi all for all you that wanted to know how to do this. Here is a way to make your application run when your computer starts up!

1. Make a method called DisplayName in your app class to get your programs name
2. Add the the code below to a pushbuttons action event

App Method

Function DisplayName() As String
  #If DebugBuild Then
    Return NthField( NthField( App.ExecutableFile.Name , ".exe" , 1 ) , "Debug" , 2 )
  #Else
    Return NthField( App.ExecutableFile.Name , ".exe" , 1 )
  #EndIf
End Function

Pushbutton code

Dim Reg As RegistryItem

Reg = New RegistryItem("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run")

Reg.Value( App.DisplayName ) = SpecialFolder.CurrentWorkingDirectory.AbsolutePath + App.DisplayName +".exe"

RicSum · **Posted:** Fri Dec 23, 2011 6:11 pm

If I wanted a button, which removes the app fom the startup menu, how is that done?

sinner · **Joined:** Sat May 27, 2006 3:27 pm **Posts:** 480

RicSum wrote:

If I wanted a button, which removes the app fom the startup menu, how is that done?

Put this code in a checkboxs action event. For example when users checkbox is checked it will add the startup item. When the user unchecked the box it will remove it

Sub AddToStartUp( Enabled As Boolean )
  Dim Reg As RegistryItem
  Reg = New RegistryItem("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run")
  
  Select Case Enabled
    
  Case True 'Add Item
    Reg.Value( App.DisplayName ) = SpecialFolder.CurrentWorkingDirectory.AbsolutePath + App.DisplayName +".exe"
    
  Case False 'Remove Item
    Reg.Delete(App.DisplayName)
  End Select
End Sub

Call

Call AddToStartUp(True)

Note:
the DisplayName method may break in new releases of RealStudio

Anonymouz · **Joined:** Sat Jan 07, 2012 7:57 pm **Posts:** 1

What if we're using a Mac?

npalardy · **Posted:** Sat Jan 07, 2012 10:30 pm

Anonymouz wrote:

What if we're using a Mac?

1) You have the user select your app and add it to their login items that run when they log in
2) You ask their permission and add it automatically to their login items (and take careful care to do it right for each version of OS X)

If you want it to be done at system start up you'd need to add a plist to the system wide LaunchAgents so launchd starts it up

sinner · **Joined:** Sat May 27, 2006 3:27 pm **Posts:** 480

I wanted to add something to this topic

I noticed this when using the CurrentWorkingDirectory path changes when i reboot my system and let my system end my application. When windows starts my program from the registry run even the CurrentWorkingDirectory changes to UserHome directory for some reason idk why this happens just make sure to compare your path with the CurrentWorkingDirectory if you use this special folder.

Here is an example

#If DebugBuild Then
  f=GetFolderItem(SpecialFolder.Applications.TrueChild(App.DisplayName+"\Data\MyDataFile").AbsolutePath)
#Else
  If SpecialFolder.CurrentWorkingDirectory.AbsolutePath = SpecialFolder.UserHome.AbsolutePath Then
    f=GetFolderItem(SpecialFolder.Applications.TrueChild(App.DisplayName+"\Data\MyDataFile").AbsolutePath)
  Else
    f=GetFolderItem(SpecialFolder.CurrentWorkingDirectory.TrueChild("Data\MyDataFile").AbsolutePath)
  End
#EndIf

Note:
I have my app change the start up path in my APP close event. If you have your startup path change with a check box/push button and not a open/close event then more then most likely you wont have to use the following code above.

Hope this helps

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