Can't get FileInstall to work

[troufas]

Hello,

I have a script that i need to compile along with an image, so that when i press a button in the gui, the image pops up in the preview space on the gui.

I have this line on the autoexecute section of my script:

FileInstall, C:\Users\myname\Desktop\Autohotkey\images\play.bmp, A_WorkingDir\images\play.bmp

I compile the script, create the images folder on my desktop, then when i run the script and press the play button, no image shows and the folder is empty. If however i just copy paste the image from my pre-compiled images folder into the new one, then the button shows the image ok.

I was under the impression that fileinstall would extract the image in the folder i designated then use it from there, but i haven't managed to make that happen so far.

Any help?

[gregster]

A_workingDir is a variable you want to evaluate while the rest of the file path is meant literally: %A_WorkingDir%\images\play.bmp
But you could probably leave that first part out anyway (About the Dest parameter: "It is assumed to be in %A_WorkingDir% if an absolute path isn't specified.").

[TAC109]

You probably want

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 FileInstall, C:\Users\myname\Desktop\Autohotkey\images\play.bmp, %A_WorkingDir%\images\play.bmp

[troufas]

A_workingDir is a variable you want to evaluate while the rest of the file path is meant literally: %A_WorkingDir%\images\play.bmp
But you could probably leave that first part out anyway (About the Dest parameter: "It is assumed to be in %A_WorkingDir% if an absolute path isn't specified.").

I tried removing the %a_workingdir% but it still didn't work.

You probably want

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 FileInstall, C:\Users\myname\Desktop\Autohotkey\images\play.bmp, %A_WorkingDir%\images\play.bmp

I am sorry, but i don't see the difference.

[TAC109]

I didn’t see that @gregster had replied first.

Check that your source and destination directories exist. FileInstall can throw an error, so insert code to test for this after the FileInstall command.

Cheers

[boiler]

I tried removing the %a_workingdir% but it still didn't work.

Did you also remove the \ that follows it so that it would be just images\play.bmp?

But if it didn’t work with the working directory correctly specified, it won’t work without it since you must have some other issue.

[troufas]

i just tried with just a .txt file and it worked fine, so i assume it's some issue with the bmp. I will keep testing, if i can't work around it somehow.