Subject Re: Help f1 problem Solutiom From Akshat Kapoor <akshat.kapoor@kapoorsons.in> Date Tue, 10 Sep 2024 19:16:03 +0530 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started Good Evening Charlie, > Wow I didn't catch that typo until just now.  So I have no idea as I had skipped the menu item and went with the f1 which sometime worked but sometimes did nothing.  Sometimes it even went to windows help!  I read some comments that f1 for help can be shaky. > > I worked on this some more this morning and found a good solution for the help menu item. In MiscAPI on line 1193 I it had been cBatchfile  = "Junk.bat" > I hadn't seen this before.  On line 1212 the program is trying to create data.  The {app} folder in inno was non-writeable which was causing the error.  I simply changed the path on line 1193 to go to a writeable folder which should be the same for everyone using the inno setup.  It is actually an easy fix. > > I am going to write a try and catch for line 1212 just to be safe.  I have tested the 1293 correction but not the try and catch yet.  I'll do that after my dentist appointment! > > Thanks for your comment about the typo.  Sorry I originally missed it. > Sorry for missing this. runhidden() can accept 2 parameters. The first is command and the second is batch file name. So you need not hard code the path. runhidden(cmd+chr(13)+chr(10)+cmd2+chr(13)+chr(10)+cmd21+chr(13)+chr(10)+cmd22+chr(13)+chr(10)+cmd3,'exp_inve.bat') The above is a working command. cmd,cmd2,cmd21,cmd22,cmd are valid strings built slightly earlier. One example is cmd3 = [copy /y ]+mcompany.unc+mcompany.direct+[\*.jpg ]+mcompany.remote_dir All the commands are executed. Regards Akshat