Re: [be] Greetings and question about project files

[Dan Dennison]

On Feb 16, 2009, at 7:01 PM, Daniel Owens wrote:

> I was wondering if there was a way to have a custom .bibledit folder  
> when using Bibledit in Windows. I have a dual boot setup (so I can  
> run Libronix), so my projects are on a second hard drive formatted  
> in NTFS. A symlink in my home folder in Linux makes it work there,  
> but what about Windows? I understand that Vista supports symlinks,  
> but what about XP? Would it be possible to create an option in the  
> gui to have a custom location for project files?


In Windows XP, you can create a hard link.

C:\>fsutil hardlink create
Usage : fsutil hardlink create <new filename> <existing filename>
   Eg : fsutil hardlink create c:\foo.txt c:\bar.txt

The code that creates/specifies the data directory is called  
tiny_directories_get_root(), which returns a ustring containing the  
path to the data directory (currently $HOME/.bibledit)

tiny_utilities.cpp:
   root_directory = tiny_gw_build_filename(g_get_home_dir(),  
".bibledit");

The idea to create a UI to specify where to store the Bibledit data  
makes sense to me. I wonder if perhaps putting it under Application  
Data might be a bit better.

The catch-22 here will be that on startup, Bibledit will need to find  
where to find it. The XML config file is stored inside of this, so  
that might not help. Perhaps hard-coding the XML config file to  
$HOME/.bibledit/configuration, and then loading everything else from  
there?

dan :)