Am I going right direction with Backups

[Rewl]

This is my fourth day programming in Auto-It so I'm still new, but I'm trying to make a program for my schools tech support team, where They run it than they can back up the current computers files to the H:\ Drive (Network Drive for that user)

Is this the right direction?

#include <ButtonConstants.au3>
#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
#Region ### START Koda GUI section ### Form=
Global $Form1 = GUICreate("Back-Up by Rewl", 393, 288, 192, 124)
Global $Button1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Backup to H:/", 120, 16, 131, 57, $WS_GROUP)
Global $Checkbox1 = GUICtrlCreateCheckbox("Favorites", 16, 96, 97, 17)
Global $Checkbox2 = GUICtrlCreateCheckbox("Desktop", 16, 120, 97, 17)
Global $Checkbox3 = GUICtrlCreateCheckbox("Music", 16, 144, 97, 17)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
#EndRegion ### END Koda GUI section ###

While 1
    $nMsg = GUIGetMsg()
    Switch $nMsg
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
        Case $nMsg = $Button1
            DirCreate("H:\Back Up")
            If GUICtrlRead($Checkbox1) = $GUI_CHECKED Then DirCopy(@FavoritesDir , "H:\Back Up")
            

    EndSwitch

Edited November 18, 2010 by Rewl

[wakillon]

Something like this is a start...

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>

#Region ### START Koda GUI section ### Form=
Global $Form1 = GUICreate("Back-Up by Rewl", 393, 288, 192, 124)
Global $Button1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Backup to H:/", 120, 16, 131, 57, $WS_GROUP)
Global $Checkbox1 = GUICtrlCreateCheckbox("Favorites", 16, 96, 97, 17)
Global $Checkbox2 = GUICtrlCreateCheckbox("Desktop", 16, 120, 97, 17)
Global $Checkbox3 = GUICtrlCreateCheckbox("Music", 16, 144, 97, 17)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
#EndRegion ### END Koda GUI section ###

Do
    $msg = GUIGetMsg()
    If $msg = $Button1 Then
        DirCreate("H:\Back Up")
        If GUICtrlRead($Checkbox1) = $GUI_CHECKED Then ConsoleWrite ( "DirCopy Favorites " & @Crlf )
        If GUICtrlRead($Checkbox2) = $GUI_CHECKED Then ConsoleWrite ( "DirCopy Desktop " & @Crlf )
        If GUICtrlRead($Checkbox3) = $GUI_CHECKED Then ConsoleWrite ( "DirCopy Music " & @Crlf )
    EndIf
Until $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE

you could try with GUICtrlCreateRadio instead of GUICtrlCreateCheckbox

and DirCopy has a flag for overwrite files !

Can be usefull for a Backup...

Edited November 18, 2010 by wakillon

[AdmiralAlkex]

You are not reading the checkbox the right way, see GUICtrlRead() in the helpfile.

Also that DirCreate() looks unnecessary. Again, see helpfile for DirCopy().

Edited November 18, 2010 by AdmiralAlkex

[Rewl]

okay thanks for the help guys!