At 15:43 2016-12-07, Sytze de Boer <sytze.kiss@gmail.com> wrote:

>I'm still totally lost trying to capture a photo via AVICAP32, so now

>trying alternatives.

>

>Using the Windows software Camera to take a photo.

>All is good. It places the photo into a folder

>C:\Users\Sytze\Pictures\Camera Roll

>

>cdirs=FILETOSTR('picloc.txt')

What is the format of the file?

1) Does the file have an EOL? That would be copied to cdirs.

2) Does the file end with a backslash? If not, you could get something like

C:\PICLOC1\PICLOC2*.jpg

assigned to ldirs instead of

C:\PICLOC1\PICLOC2\*.jpg

(Note the backslash, the THIRD backslash.)

>ldirs=cdirs+"*.jpg"

>lPics=ADIR(picfiles,ldirs)

>

>trcask350 =cdirs+picfiles(1,1) &&Yes, it now knows the picture

>trcask351 =Sys(5)+Curdir()+"PICS\"+Alltrim(Str(matties.code))+"_PHOTO.JPG"

>**all is good at this stage

3) Does the pics subdirectory exist?

>COPY FILE (trcask350) TO (trcask351)

>

>Here's the problem

>The file in the 2nd location is a zero byte file

>

>Can anyone suggest why this is so?

It previously got written that way and subsequent runs have

done nothing to it? Try deleting it, and see what happens. I got

errors from your code, not a zero byte file until I corrected the three issues.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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