Re: [Enigma-devel] Re: Mac OS X fixes for 1.01

[Ronald Lamprecht]

Hi,

Sidney Markowitz wrote:
> > Looking at the Apple developer docs the correct place for the Enigma 
> > user data should be:
> >
> > "~/Library/Application Support/Enigma"
>
> There are a number of problems. The %s strings in the statement above
> get replaced with the expanded ~/.enigma, not with ~/Library/... because
> of what appears to me to be extra lines in main.cc, lines 595-599
>
> #ifdef MACOSX
>     if (prefs->getBool("MacUpdate1.00") == false) {
>         userStdPath = userStdPathMac1_00;
>     }
> #endif

You are right. These lines should be deleted.

> I would insert cd ~/ && before the rm -rf in that command line. I didn't
> se an error specifically from it, but I have had strange side effects at
> times in MacOS X when deleting the current directory. It can't hurt to
> be careful about it.

I added "cd ~ && " to the string.

> Once I take care of those two things, there are still problems that I
> don't have time to track down right now. I'll list them in case that's
> enough for you to go on:
>
> Looking at Options after starting up agaib anfter the migration, the new
> user path remains ~/.enigma, with only Image Path changing to the new
> directory.
>
> If I run Enigma 1.00 after the migration like you asked me to try,
> Option shows both being ~/.enigma.
>
> If I delete ~/.enigmarc.xml, ~/.enigma,
> and ~/Library/Application Support/Enigma, then run Enigma 1.0.1, it
> still asks if I want to move the options from ~/.enigma.

Thanks - I hope I found the reason for all this misbehaviour in two 
minor bugs. I added all changes in revision 750

> I won't get a chance to get back to this for perhaps 24 hours.

Awaiting your reports on the fixes.

Thanks

Ronald