FileInstall() function issues?

[bittiez]

So I have my script all ready to go, and it works flawlessly, but when I go to compile its telling me FileInstall() is an invalid function, is there some file I need to include for this to work properly?

[BrewManNH]

You're probably using it incorrectly, post your code or at least the part that includes the FileInstall section.

[smartee]

hi bittiez,

No includes are required to use FileInstall() function, perhaps your syntax is incorrect; make sure the source files are specified as literal strings. See the help-file for more details on usage, if you still encounter difficulties, post a snippet of the code that doesn't work as expected and tell us the exact error details.

Hope this helps

-smartee

[bittiez]

Exact details: "Invalid FileInstall() function:"

Yes, thats all it shows, it does not give me any more detail I'm afraid =/

FileInstall(@WorkingDir & "\tempdownload\" & $downloadfile & "\"& $app_i[$i], @WorkingDir & "\"& $app_i[$i], 21)

Which turns out to be something along the lines of:

FileInstall("C:\tempdownload\2\filename.txt", "C:\filename.txt", 21)

(The working dir, second level folder and file name all change from time to time, hence the use of variables and arrays)

I have already done consolwrites for the directories and filenames, they all check out, and this runs without any errors or warning when running it as a .au3..

[sahsanu]

Exact details: "Invalid FileInstall() function:"

Yes, thats all it shows, it does not give me any more detail I'm afraid =/

FileInstall(@WorkingDir & "\tempdownload\" & $downloadfile & "\"& $app_i[$i], @WorkingDir & "\"& $app_i[$i], 21)

Read again the help file and you will see this bold text talking about source parameter: "This must be a literal string; it cannot be a variable or the result of a function call"

Edit: If you need to use Fileinstall() with many files in a directory, then you can take a look to this SmOke_N's program will write the code for you. Edited May 5, 2011 by sahsanu

[BrewManNH]

The FileInstall command requires the use of a literal path and file name, you can't use variables as the source for the file install. You can use variables as the destination but not for the source. The fileinstall is done at compile time, so the compiler won't know what your variables mean at that time.

[bittiez]

Ah I see, thank you guys very much

[bittiez]

Is there any way around this? Maybe a file move function? There is no way I can have the source be a specific file in my script =/

Nevermind, FileCopy works

Edited May 5, 2011 by bittiez

[BrewManNH]

The only thing that you can do to make it so that it's in a semi-variable location is to use a relative path, FileInstall("test\testfile.ini" as an example would install the file testfile.ini that's located in the test folder under the script's folder. Or you could use a leading "\" to specify the root folder of the drive and a folder under that. That's about it, if the compiler can't find the file by the file path and file name, it will not install the file.

[BrewManNH]

Is there any way around this? Maybe a file move function? There is no way I can have the source be a specific file in my script =/

Nevermind, FileCopy works

If you're referring to moving the file to another folder when the script is run, you can use variables in the destination parameter. That will work because it's not acted upon until run time. It's only the source that can't use variables or macros.