FileInstall Strange behaviour

[lonardd]

Hi,

I have a source Script where I inserted the following code lines to be able to extract the script source code anytime later if I run it with the /ExtractSourceCode:

#Region ;**** Directives created by AutoIt3Wrapper_GUI ****
#AutoIt3Wrapper_UseX64=n
#AutoIt3Wrapper_Change2CUI=y
#AutoIt3Wrapper_Res_SaveSource=Y
#EndRegion ;**** Directives created by AutoIt3Wrapper_GUI ****
If StringInStr($cmdlineRaw, "/ExtractSourceCode") Then
    FileInstall(@ScriptFullPath, @ScriptDir & "\" & @ScriptName & ".txt", 1)  
    ;FileInstall("C:\Test.txt", @ScriptDir & "\Test.txt")
    Exit
EndIf

I used to be able to compile it on another computer some years ago without problems.

Now I wanted to modify the code, so I extracted it, renamed the file *.au3, performd my little modification and rebuild.

Strangely, I get this popup with Caption: Aut2Exe Error and Invalid FileInstall() function.

BEfore I hit the OK button on the Popup, I can see the file is actually Built as I can see that an EXE file is created, but as I hit OK in that error dialog, the EXE disappears.

Any advice?

Thanks

David

I can't remember if I did it with Autoit 2 

EPP_NF_Replacer_UBI.au3

[BrewManNH]

I can't replicate this, I get the EXE file and it extracts it ok when the executable is ran.

Can you copy and paste the output panel from SciTE when you compile it and get the error message to see the full output messages?

Edited February 27, 2019 by BrewManNH

[Bowmore]

This line is invalid. You can't use macros or variables as the source value  in FileInstall. You must use literal paths and file names.

FileInstall(@ScriptFullPath, @ScriptDir & "\" & @ScriptName & ".txt", 1)

It needs to be something like this

FileInstall("C:\dir1\dir2\myscript.au3", @ScriptDir & "\" & @ScriptName & ".txt", 1)

Or

FileInstall(".\myscript.au3", @ScriptDir & "\" & @ScriptName & ".txt", 1)

 

[TheXman]

@Bowmore

40 minutes ago, Bowmore said:

You can't use macros or variables as the source value  in FileInstall. You must use literal paths and file names.

Actually there is an exception.  From the help file:

Quote

The only exception to the above, is that the source file may be @ScriptFullPath - this allows you to include the source script.

 

[lonardd]

On 2/27/2019 at 9:58 PM, Bowmore said:

This line is invalid. You can't use macros or variables as the source value  in FileInstall. You must use literal paths and file names.

FileInstall(@ScriptFullPath, @ScriptDir & "\" & @ScriptName & ".txt", 1)

It needs to be something like this

FileInstall("C:\dir1\dir2\myscript.au3", @ScriptDir & "\" & @ScriptName & ".txt", 1)

Or

FileInstall(".\myscript.au3", @ScriptDir & "\" & @ScriptName & ".txt", 1)

 

As per your suggestion I tried this:

    FileInstall(".\EPP_NF_Replacer_UBI.au3", @ScriptDir & "\" & @ScriptName & ".txt", 1) and it now compiles. The problem is that it does not do what I want that is extracting the source code into a TXT file.

 

[BrewManNH]

3 hours ago, lonardd said:

The problem is that it does not do what I want that is extracting the source code into a TXT file.

So, what does it do instead?

[Bowmore]

I downloaded your script in your first post and compiled it unaltered then executed it from a command prompt as
Monitors>P:\Downloads\EPP_NF_Replacer_UBI.exe /ExtractSourceCode

This created a file 

P:\Downloads\EPP_NF_Replacer_UBI.exe.txt 

Which contains the the original source code from P:\Downloads\EPP_NF_Replacer_UBI.au3

From this I can see only 2 possibilities why this is not working for you

1. You are mistyping the command-line parameter "/ExtractSourceCode"
2. Your anti-virus is seeing this as suspicious behaviour and deleting the extracted file.