Castle Paradox

chronoboy · Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 1:49 pm Post subject: Possible BUG with CUSTOM.EXE

For some reason under Linux, ohrrpgce-custom only checks for RPG files in the Home directory when launched with a parameter with no file-path.

PWD=/home/ohrdevel/chronoboy

EG:
ohrrpgce-custom chronoboy.rpg will not work.
ohrrpgce-custom /home/ohrdevel/chronoboy/chronoboy.rpg will work.
ohrrpgce-custom wander.rpg will load wander.rpg if loaded $HOME.

Should be an easy fix, just needs to be corrected on the startup directory.

ohrrpgce-game works fine with all cases.
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TMC · Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 12:14 am Post subject:

I don't understand the complaint. You're saying that if ohrrpgce-custom and an rpg file are both in your home directory, then "ohrrpgce-custom agame.rpg" won't open it? This works for me both with the nightlies, and with Ypsiliform+2. If you mean that you want to be able to open games in $HOME without specifying a path with an executable located anywhere, then that's not normal behaviour, and I can't get ohrrpgce-game to do that either.
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Bob the Hamster · Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 7:10 am Post subject:

I think the problem is that custom forces it's current working directory to be $HOME if custom is installed system-wide. I checked the code that changes working directory, and it is indeed different in game and custom.

I am not sure if there would be any undesired side-effects if I just make custom do what game does...

chronoboy · Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 8:11 am Post subject:

Why was custom made this way in the first place? For organized people such as myself, I have many directories under my HOME folder. I tend store every game in it's own directory with it's own import directory to hold all the assets. Since I use multiple HSSs for a single game, it only makes sense for the game to have it's own folder.

Game on the other hand, since I don't have any assets for those, or HSS files, they are all generally in the same directory.

I find it most annoying that when I import HS files from the command line, that I need to enter in the entire path for each file... Perhaps a simple commandline switch would work to enable custom to automatically prepend the current working directory. Just an idea as a workaround.
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