i want to create a program and i need help

[maniaq]

hi, i don't know if i'm writing in right section, but i need help.

first of all i know how create a program that copies all needed files to some place i want (with installshield) but then i face up some problems:

first of all i have a .bat file that should be launched when i install the program and inside that file a have many lines with this line

"I386 source"

which i want change during my program installation, something like this:

i want to locate windows source I386 folder and i want that "I386 source" would be changed to it, for egzample

from this

"I386 source"

to this

E:\Atomix\XP\XP\I386

insise that .bat file (maybe there is an easier way).

how could i do that?

Edited May 6, 2006 by maniaq

[nitroshift]

i didn't quite get you but maybe editing the .bat file will help...

[ophiel]

copy and paste these lines into a file called source.bat:

@ECHO off

   IF NOT [%1]==[] goto start

   ECHO.
   ECHO	no command line argument passed.
   ECHO.

   GOTO :eof

:start

ECHO argument passed = %1

after that if for instance you ran source.bat d:\i386 the %1 variable would equal d:\i386, try the example for yourself.

you can also set your own variables within the .bat code using set.

for instance:

set test=this is a test

later in your code %test% would equal this is a test

Edited May 8, 2006 by ophiel

[druiddk]

@ophiel > even though that will work im still curious if someone has a good tip for replacing lines inside a bat or txt file for that matter

[ophiel]

i don't understand why you would want to replace a line in a batch script. it would require patching the file and kind of negates the simplicity of a batch file.

i sometimes have a batch file create another batch file via echo > file.txt, perhaps that would be a better solution than trying to patch an existing script?

[maniaq]

copy and paste these lines into a file called source.bat:

@ECHO off

   IF NOT [%1]==[] goto start

   ECHO.
   ECHO	no command line argument passed.
   ECHO.

   GOTO :eof

:start

ECHO argument passed = %1

after that if for instance you ran source.bat d:\i386 the %1 variable would equal d:\i386, try the example for yourself.

you can also set your own variables within the .bat code using set.

for instance:

set test=this is a test

later in your code %test% would equal this is a test

thanks i have tested and it worked

[maniaq]

the next problem that i'm faced up is i don't know how to call cmd automatically when i extract files...

first when i add files (included a .bat file) to sfx archive i select what file to run after extract and here i stop...

i want to add a line for egzample "source.bat d:\i386" in command promt (when the files are beeing extracted). the reason i ask is because win xp source folder always changes. so is there any way i could do that? tnx

[ophiel]

instead of making a self-extracting archive, i would recommend using makecab to create a .cab archive of your files.

then afterwards you would use a batch script like this to decompress:

@echo off
expand myfiles.cab %1

if the script was named filecopy.bat, you would call it like this: filecopy.bat d:\i386

note: expand and makecab are microsoft utilities that come with xp