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Custom Code Action: ExtractToFile
Classname: com.zerog.ia.customcode.util.fileutils.ExtractToFile

Description: This class opens a URL resource and save the content to a new file. The URL resource can be inside the installer archive, on the user's hard drive, or from a network location. This is useful for installing files from a remote or Internet location, or for extracting files from the installer archive for special processing.

Input InstallAnywhere Variables:

ExtractToFile_Source: Path and name of the file as stored in "ExtractToFileCustomCode.jar". For example, com/acme/myfile.txt
ExtractToFile_Destination: Path and name of new file to create. For example, $USER_INSTALL_DIR$/myfile.txt

Output InstallAnywhere Variables:

None

General Instructions:

This README explains how to set up and take advantage of the ExtractToFile custom code action.

For IA 5.5.1 and earlier versions of IA:

To effectively use this action, you will want to add an "Execute Custom Code" action to anywhere in the IA Advanced Designer.
Once you have added an "Execute Custom Code" action to your project, you will need to select the JAR or ZIP file that contains the desired action. To select the JAR or ZIP file, click on the "Choose JAR or ZIP..." button and select the file "ExtractToFileCustomCode.jar" in the "Choose Code Archive" dialog tht appears.
Next you have to designate the "Class:" that is to be called for the custom code. In this case, you would enter "com.zerog.ia.customcode.util.fileutils.ExtractToFile" (no quotes).

For IA 6.0:

To effectively use this action, you will want to add ExtractToFileCustomCode.jar in [InstallAnywhere Folder]\plugins . Then, add the action located in the plugins tab to InstallAnywhere in the IA Advanced designer. Remember that for the action to work correctly you need to set ExtractToFile_Source and ExtractToFile_Destination to the expression you want to evaluate.

Please see the user guide for more information on adding additional properties to the customcode.properties file found in ExtractToFileCustomCode.jar.

Thank you,
Zero G Developer Technical Services.




20 November 2003