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LeTjock
Level 3
‎Apr 03, 2008 01:34 AM

Write to file with installscript fails on windows vista

The installscript command OpenFile failes on Windows Vista are there any other installscript command to use in Vista that will work?
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MichaelU
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‎Apr 03, 2008 09:24 AM

I'm not aware of any problems with the file APIs on Vista. However there are a lot of tricks that the UAC-related elevation can play on where your files really are vs. where you originally thought they were. Could you be running into a case where the path your code tries to open becomes incorrect?
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LeTjock
Level 3
‎Apr 03, 2008 10:08 AM

The path is correct.
When Im using
OpenFileMode(FILE_MODE_APPEN);
if(OpenFile(nvFileHandle, sDir, sFile) < 0) then
...

I get negative result from OpenFile on Vista (not on XP)


With the following code the return value is greater then 0 on both XP and Vista:
OpenFileMode(FILE_MODE_NORMAL);
if(OpenFile(nvFileHandle, sDir, sFile) < 0) then
...


I no longer need to write to the specific file via Installscript, but maybe some other user searching the forum would like to know how to do..
Thanks anyway MichaelU.
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