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| 0002075 | Spring engine | General | public | 2010-09-03 01:01 | 2012-03-06 01:55 | ||||
| Reporter | abma | ||||||||
| Assigned To | abma | ||||||||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always | ||||
| Status | resolved | Resolution | no change required | ||||||
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| Summary | 0002075: Springs detects %PROGRAMFILES%\Spring as read-write, %HOME%\Mygames\Spring as read-only dir in win | ||||||||
| Description | Spring often prefers the install-directory but it should use the home-directory. (This only happens, when the user has r/w-access to the installed dir) copied from an ramdom info-logS: # Using read-write data directory: E:\Games\Spring\ # Using read-only data directory: C:\Documents and Settings\Shiva\My Documents\My Games\Spring\ # Using read-only data directory: C:\Documents and Settings\Shiva\My Documents\Spring\ # Using read-only data directory: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Spring\ or an other one: # Using read-write data directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\Spring\ # Using read-only data directory: C:\Users\Lvpc\Documents\My Games\Spring\ | ||||||||
| Additional Information | In detail, it looks like bool DataDirLocater::IsPortableMode() { returns always true in windows, because this function checks if in the module-path (where spring.exe is started from) unitsync.dll exist and this is always true in windows (but not in linux)... my suggestion is: don't check for unitsync.dll but for portable.txt. (as portable installations only occur within windows). if that file exists, this is a portable "installation"... | ||||||||
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abma (administrator) 2010-09-05 19:35 Last edited: 2010-09-07 19:16 |
Maybe a spring.manifest file could help here too (can't test it, i've no windows vista/7): http://helpware.net/VistaCompat.htm (disable virtualization) this file already seems to be created by springlobby spring.manifest: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0"> <assemblyIdentity version="1.0.0.0" processorArchitecture="X86" name="spring" type="win32"/> <trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3"> <security> <requestedPrivileges> <requestedExecutionLevel level="asInvoker" uiAccess="false" /> </requestedPrivileges> </security> </trustInfo> </assembly> |
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jK (developer) 2010-09-07 22:47 Last edited: 2010-09-07 22:50 |
Spring just selects one dir as write dir. Think about how the VFS works. It merge all those dirs into 1 virtual file tree, if you read from one of its nodes the file can be anywhere on your filesystem. But if you now want to create a new node where should it be created? It must be a fixed location from all those possible ones, and spring uses a hierarchy to select this special one (and the install dir is higher than the home dir for windows). So it doesn't mean that Spring couldn't write to the others, it just means that it won't write to them. PS: this is wanted because still a lot windows users prefer the all-in-one-dir solution. |
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abma (administrator) 2010-09-08 01:19 |
yep, it's clear, that there can be only one write-able directory, but i think this should be by default the %HOME% as the lobby seems to use the writeable dir too, this would allow easier testing... Microsoft itselfs stores data of games there: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/My_Documents#Other_.22My.22_folders maybe discuss at next meeting? |
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jK (developer) 2010-09-08 01:22 |
It was discussed already, search the forum for Auswaschbar's posts. |
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abma (administrator) 2010-09-08 03:34 |
http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=15185 i've found no conclusion in the thread. :-/ sound's like to better not change anything at this point... |
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abma (administrator) 2012-03-06 01:55 |
its fine as it is |
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| 2010-09-03 01:01 | abma | New Issue | |
| 2010-09-05 19:35 | abma | Note Added: 0005456 | |
| 2010-09-07 19:14 | abma | Note Edited: 0005456 | |
| 2010-09-07 19:16 | abma | Note Edited: 0005456 | |
| 2010-09-07 22:47 | jK | Note Added: 0005478 | |
| 2010-09-07 22:48 | jK | Note Edited: 0005478 | |
| 2010-09-07 22:48 | jK | Note Edited: 0005478 | |
| 2010-09-07 22:49 | jK | Note Edited: 0005478 | |
| 2010-09-07 22:50 | jK | Note Edited: 0005478 | |
| 2010-09-08 01:19 | abma | Note Added: 0005479 | |
| 2010-09-08 01:22 | jK | Note Added: 0005480 | |
| 2010-09-08 03:34 | abma | Note Added: 0005482 | |
| 2010-12-06 21:02 | abma | Relationship added | related to 0002246 |
| 2012-03-06 01:55 | abma | Note Added: 0008404 | |
| 2012-03-06 01:55 | abma | Status | new => resolved |
| 2012-03-06 01:55 | abma | Resolution | open => no change required |
| 2012-03-06 01:55 | abma | Assigned To | => abma |
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