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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0002118 | FSSCP | Platform-Engine interaction | public | 2010-02-10 17:00 | 2017-02-13 23:26 |
| Reporter | chief1983 | Assigned To | m_m | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | N/A |
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Summary | 0002118: Move all configuration and logging data on all platforms to %APPDATA% | ||||
| Description | It has been bad practice for ages to write config data into the game/engine's installation path, but we still do. Logs, config files, etc need to be unified across all platforms as much as possible, and stored in %APPDATA% or equivalent. This includes moving Windows from using the registry to the INI file or *nix equivalent. On windows this will also require modifications to the launcher, whatever is considered standard at the time (SCP-maintained or kkmic's). | ||||
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Worth also addressing in the same manner the location of configuration and logging data on OS X. We currently use ~/Library/FS2_Open/ when it is compliant to use ~/Library/Application Support/FS2_Open/ instead. |
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Good to know. |
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Details from the Mac platform developer docs http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPFileSystem/Articles/WhereToPutFiles.html |
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Bear in mind that Wing Commander Saga have already done some of this (Although they use C:\Users\User_Name\Documents\Volition\Wing Commander Saga). Might be worth just stealing their code. |
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Honestly, it's not much more than changing it to use the unix code instead of the Windows code on Windows I think. It will probably take a bit more to do it 'right', but that should cover most of it. We're going to need to do prepwork to actually do it though, so we're not ready to just flip that switch just yet. |
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Just dropping a quick note here that I implemented the necessary changes: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=86194.msg1722096#msg1722096 (patch also uploaded here). The patch adds a new build cap flag to indicate that this build uses INI files instead of the windows registry so a launcher application will be able to choose where to save configuration data. It also adds a commandline option to enable the old behavior so users can continue to use old launchers. |
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I forgot that this issue existed. This feature is part of the SDL2 changes and has been merged. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2010-02-10 17:00 | chief1983 | New Issue | |
| 2010-02-10 17:02 | chief1983 | Description Updated | |
| 2010-02-13 11:36 | Echelon9 | Note Added: 0011662 | |
| 2010-02-13 20:00 | chief1983 | Note Added: 0011665 | |
| 2010-05-23 06:59 | Echelon9 | Note Added: 0011991 | |
| 2012-04-03 13:52 | Echelon9 | Severity | block => feature |
| 2012-04-19 07:37 | karajorma | Note Added: 0013472 | |
| 2012-04-19 14:54 | chief1983 | Note Added: 0013473 | |
| 2012-12-18 21:03 | The_E | Relationship added | parent of 0002191 |
| 2012-12-18 21:06 | The_E | Target Version | => 3.7.2 |
| 2013-12-22 14:28 | m_m | Note Added: 0015529 | |
| 2013-12-22 14:29 | m_m | File Added: registry.zip | |
| 2013-12-22 14:29 | m_m | Assigned To | => m_m |
| 2013-12-22 14:29 | m_m | Status | new => feedback |
| 2014-06-15 10:40 | m_m | Target Version | 3.7.2 => 3.7.3 |
| 2017-02-13 23:23 | m_m | Note Added: 0016860 | |
| 2017-02-13 23:26 | m_m | Status | feedback => resolved |
| 2017-02-13 23:26 | m_m | Resolution | open => fixed |
