"First Launch" Event?

[yoodidoo]

I was currently working on an application of mine, and I'd like for it to
execute some code the first time it's launched only, and would not execute
that code any other time it's opened afterwards.

Could someone tell me how I could achieve this? Thanks.

[dlorde]

You could do your one-time actions, then create a file in the application directory. Before your one-time actions, just check if the file exists. Something like this:

String userDir = System.getProperty("user.dir");
String fileName = "one-time.tst";
File testFile = new File(userDir + File.separator + fileName);
if (!testFile.exists()) {
   doOneTimeInit();
   testFile.createNewFile();
}
... // continue

I left out the exception handling.

[yoodidoo]

Thanks for your reply, I was thinking of something along those lines, but the
method you gave seems better.