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put specialfolderpath("Documents") & slash & "Livecode Projects" into tAppPrefDir

Klaus wrote:Hi GSPearson,

is gApplicationPrefsDir defined as a global variable?
Did you check "the result" somewhere?


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Klaus

FourthWorld wrote:Does UAC allow the program to write/modify files in C:/ProgramData/?

libUrlDownloadToFile tFCCLicenseDataDownload, tFCCLicenseDataFilename, "ExtractFCCDownloadedArchive"
put the result into it
breakpoint

GSPearson wrote:In my application I have libURLDownloadToFile working as in my splash stack it downloads a zip file from my website, extracts it and checks to make sure it is the latest version. If it is not, then it downloads the latest version and runs it.

Now as I have been updating this application, I am trying to complete a user's request by downloading data from the FCC which is in zip format. When I enter the following code and run the application it skips over the callback message function and goes directly to the break point. Within the callback message function, I have a breakpoint command so I can try to figure out why the contents of the archive is not being extracted in the program's data directory.

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libUrlSetStatusCallback "FCCLicenseDownloadStatus", the long name of me
   libUrlDownloadToFile tFCCLicenseDataDownload, tFCCLicenseDataFilename, "ExtractFCCDownloadedArchive"
   
   breakpoint

Then the Extract FCC Downloaded Archive is as follows:

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command ExtractFCCDownloadedArchive pURL, pStatus
   local tList, tArchiveFileLoc
   breakpoint
   
   put gApplicationPrefsDir & slash & "l_mdsitfs.zip" into tArchiveFileLoc
   put "Status: Extracting FCC Application Data Files from Online Resource" into fld "Status Msg Field" on card "Main Card" of stack "ViewsOnLearningEBSSplashApplication"
   revZipOpenArchive tArchiveFileLoc, "read"
   put RevZipEnumerateItems(tArchiveFileLoc) into tList
   repeat for each line i in tList
      if i = empty then
         next repeat
      end if
      revZipExtractItemToFile tArchiveFileLoc, i, (gApplicationPrefsDir & slash & i)
   end repeat
   revZipCloseArchive tArchiveFileLoc
   
   delete variable tList
   delete variable i
   delete variable tArchiveFileLoc  
end ExtractFCCDownloadedArchive

gApplicationPrefsDir is set to C:/ProgramData/{ProgramName} which I do have the fcc archive just not the contents of this archive.



Any Ideas why this Extract Function is not being ran.

Simon wrote:

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put the result into it

Oh no.... Never do that.
The "it" variable is changing all the time.
just use

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put the result

It may very well be empty.

Simon