Hi guys, I'm new here and I have a question.

I made a program that allows people to install patches for a game called Battlefield 2. I want to protect my copyright over it, so I'm trying to make an IF command, that if it detects that the copyright is tampered with, it shows an error message and terminates. It's not working, it goes on either if I have the copyright taken off, or if it is on. Here is the top of my code:

@echo off
title Battlefield 2 Patcher v1.03
color 80
rem Excuse all the spelling errors; they're there to make the interface more user-friendly.
rem I'm tired of having to guess what these commands mean in PATCHER.bat. I'm gonna fix that!
cls
IF "Created by xstax981"== "Created by xstax981" GOTO START ELSE GOTO FALSESTART
:START
rem Basic start of patcher. Also scans if PATCHER.bat is placed with the BF2.exe file.
echo.
echo. ***************************
echo. Battlefield 2 Patcher v1.03
echo. ***************************
echo. Created by xstax981
*snip*
:FALSESTART
rem What to call if the author's copyright is removed.
title Illegal Version
echo.You have a modified version of this program that has the original author's copyright STRIPPED. This program will now terminate.
pause
exit



Can anyone help?Seems that you forgot the brackets:


IF "Created by xstax981"=="Created by xstax981" (GOTO :START
)ELSE(
GOTO :FALSESTART
)

hope it helps
uliWhen I try to use that code, it flashes a BLANK box and exits. :-/Your IF statement compares two literals. There is no variable whose value may or may not be "Created by xstax981".

What does *snip* represent?

8-)

It was a bunch of other things in the program that weren't necessary. It was like 90 lines long and had nothing to do with the question

So what you're saying is that I should use the SET command and create a variable for it?is your copy right a text file?? if so make your code like this. With this your firs line of your readme will need to be Quote

Created by xstax981