Re: Amaya feature request

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 02:11:19 -0400 (EDT)
Markus Maier <[email protected]> wrote

> Hello,
> 
> This is a feature request. Perhaps somebody make the following work:
> 
> [1] Launch Amaya from an CD-ROM or read-only mounted Network device; the  
>     problems with Amaya 8.1a are related to my point [2] and the following 
>      observation:
>     If I start Amaya on Windows (98) from a writeable Samba Share the 
>     location bar shows
> E:\2N\2R1125\SYS\0\2N\2R1141\AMAYA\WINDOWS_I386.AMAYA_2003_04_23.NEZE.DE\INST\amaya\AmayaPage.html
>     from another read-only Samba share I get:
>            
> ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ......
> 
> [2] Amaya uses different locations for its user directory, and it is 
>     configurable in nearly all environments:
>         Unix: change HOME-Env-varaible
>         WinNT/2000/XP: change HOMEDRIVE- and HOMEPATH-env-variables
>    but on windows 98 it is hardcoded (as far as I understand the sources), now
>    my suggestion:
>         Check (in all environments) for an env-varaible AMAYA_USER_HOME,
>         and if it is set use it, if it is not set keep the default behaviours 
>         as it is implemented at the moment.
>    This makes it possible to launch amaya with a small script from a read-only
>    disk (in my case: a CD-ROM and read-only samba share ); the script has to
>    define AMAYA_USER_HOME with a temporary directory.
>    I think that are 3 lines of code in /thotlib/base/registry.c and 2 lines of
>    additional documentation.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> mle

Okay. Now the global variable AMAYA_USER_HOME lets the user select the directory 
where user preferences are stored (the AmayaHome directory).
     Irene.
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