FileOpen Problem

[kruhft]

Hello, I am just getting started with MT5 and I'm trying the simple script: void OnStart() { int handle = FileOpen("Z:\\test.dat", FILE_WRITE); Alert(GetLastError()); FileClose(handle); } Nothing special, just trying to create a file on my Z: drive. The Alter is there because the file is never created and I wanted to see if there was an error. I end up getting a 5002 Error, which according to the documentation is 'Invalid file name'. The filename looks pretty good to me, but maybe there's something to MT that is a bit different from the other languages I've used in the past? Any help appreciated. -- Burton Samograd http://kruhft.dyndns.org

[kruhft]

Sorry for the bad formatting, hopefully this is better:

Hello, I am just getting started with MT5 and I'm trying the simple script:

void OnStart() { int handle = FileOpen("Z:\\test.dat", FILE_WRITE); Alert(GetLastError()); FileClose(handle); }

Nothing special, just trying to create a file on my Z: drive. The Alter is there because the file is never created and I wanted to see if there was an error. I end up getting a 5002 Error, which according to the documentation is 'Invalid file name'. The filename looks pretty good to me, but maybe there's something to MT that is a bit different from the other languages I've used in the past? Any help appreciated.

--
Burton Samograd
http://kruhft.dyndns.org

[kruhft]

Ok, so it looks like you cannot create files outside of the "Files" directory.  That seems a bit odd; is that a security feature?

[Andriy Moraru]

Yeah. You'd hate to run scripts that mess with your entire filesystem :).