DirCreate Return values

[mr-es335]

Good day,

I very much enjoy Autoit. However, I do find the Helpfile rather confusing at times.

For example. DirCreate...am I not able to employ the return values of DirCreate "on its own" - without the need for "FileExists"...as the Helpfile example displays?

DirCreate("C\Me")
Local $Result = ""
    If $Result = 1 Then ; Success??
        MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "", "The .edl folder was created successfully!")
    Else ; Failure??
        MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "", "The .edl folder was not created successfully!")
    EndIf

 

Edited November 1 by mr-es335

[mr-es335]

Good day,

I did...finally ...come across this little tid-bit:

$error = DirCreate("C:\Folder1")
MsgBox(0,'$error',$error)

Source: [Iod3n]

As long as the destination can be written to, then the error will return "1"! Correct"?

Following, is my updated example:

Local $error = DirCreate("C:\Folder1")
    If $error = 0 Then
        MsgBox(0, "NOTICE!", "Folder was not created", $error)
    Else
        MsgBox(0, "NOTICE!", "Folder was created", $error)
    EndIf

Question: May I ask, in the first example, the $error value is displayed...but not in the second example...why?

[Melba23]

mr-es335,

In your first script, where do you store the return value from the DirCreate function? How can you check it when you have no idea what it is? All you are checking is the value of the $result variable - which you have just set to "" and so makes any checking completely pointless.

In the second set of scripts you are storing the return value, but I would question your use of $error as the variable name as it would appear to me to be the exact reverse of that and better named $iSuccess! And as to why the return value is not shown in the latter of the 2 scripts - perhaps you should look carefully at how many parameters are you passing to the MsgBox functions?

M23