Check for first run

Pete pete at mollysrevenge.com
Sun Apr 17 17:55:48 EDT 2011


Even if the db does exist, just set a value into a column in in to indicate
initialisation has occurred.

Pete
Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>




On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Warren Samples <warren at warrensweb.us>wrote:

> On Sunday, April 17, 2011 01:42:28 AM Maarten Koopmans wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there a best practice for checking if the application is on  a
> > first run for a standalone(especially one that will go to an App store
> > eventually)?
> >
> > I simply need to ask the user a few questions on first run (and set up
> > a sqlite db).
> >
> > Best, Maarten
>
>
> Why don't you check for the existence of the db file? If it exists, your
> app has been run, no? If it doesn't
> exist, then you'll have to go through setup, even if it has run before but
> the file has been deleted.
>
> Warren
>
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