Windows [Solved] Did anyone get the disable Sandbox thing to work properly?

[N0013]

I'm using GMS2 & build the game as zip

I've tried the simple code to check the problem.
show_message(program_directory);
if file_exists("ez.zip") then {
zip_unzip("ez.zip",program_directory+"Data/"); }
else
{
show_message("File Not found!");
}

The result is
The message show correct place (same location of .exe)
but it's unzip to the Appdata/Local lol. Any idea ?

thanks.

 

[IndianaBones]

There seems to be a bug/issue when trying to write to program_directory, it points to the appdata/local folder as you have found.

More info in this thread : https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?threads/getting-executable-directory.69171/#post-410274

And this one: https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.p...rogram_directory-with-sandbox-disabled.67617/

 

[N0013]

There seems to be a bug/issue when trying to write to program_directory, it points to the appdata/local folder as you have found.

More info in this thread : https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?threads/getting-executable-directory.69171/#post-410274

And this one: https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.p...rogram_directory-with-sandbox-disabled.67617/

Thanks! I'll look into those threads hope I can figure it out!

 

[N0013]

Look like I can create folder in the same place with exe with this code

global.dir = program_directory()+"Data/";
if !(directory_exists(global.dir)) { directory_create(global.dir); }

But for unzip function

if file_exists("ez.zip") then {
zip_unzip("ez.zip",global.dir);
}

it's still unzip to the Appdata/Local

Now I've got an idea to copy the whole folder from Appdata to my game folder
but I'm not sure that file_manager extension will help me to do it since
it doesn't look like it have a function that can copy the whole folder with files in it.

 

[IndianaBones]

Look like I can create folder in the same place with exe with this code

global.dir = program_directory()+"Data/";
if !(directory_exists(global.dir)) { directory_create(global.dir); }

But for unzip function

if file_exists("ez.zip") then {
zip_unzip("ez.zip",global.dir);
}

it's still unzip to the Appdata/Local

Now I've got an idea to copy the whole folder from Appdata to my game folder
but I'm not sure that file_manager extension will help me to do it since
it doesn't look like it have a function that can copy the whole folder with files in it.

I think you can use directory_contents to get a list of all the files in a folder.

Perhaps @Samuel Venable , the author, could suggest a way to do it.

 

[N0013]

If you can help me with folder copy code that would be great too!
I'm trying to copy the Data folder from Appdata project directory to the game directory but my code doesn't work at all.

global.dir = get_program_directory();
directory_copy(working_directory+"Data/",global.dir+"Data/");

Maybe I'm doing it wrong.
Can anyone provide me a sample code?

EDIT* NVM finally got it to work now!!
By using this code
directory_copy(game_save_id + "Data", working_directory + "Data")

The result is it's copy all the file inside Data folder from Appdata to game directory!
Hope this help people who trying to do something like this.

PS. You also need file manager extension in order to do this!