Opened 17 years ago
Closed 2 years ago
#3712 closed defect (fixed)
ALL: --savepath=PATH broken
Reported by: | SF/logicdeluxe | Owned by: | sev- |
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Priority: | normal | Component: | GUI |
Version: | Keywords: | ||
Cc: | Game: |
Description
ScummVM 0.12.0svn (Apr 30 2008 10:27:14) Features compiled in: Vorbis FLAC MP3 zLib MPEG2 Windows 2000 SP4
The command line option --savepath=PATH doesn't seem to do anything on the svn build as well as in the later releases. 0.8.2 is the last release in which this options works. This example does not work in releases after 0.8.2: scummvm --config=scummvm.ini --savepath="%appdata%\scummvm"
Ticket imported from: #1955075. Ticket imported from: bugs/3712.
Change History (11)
comment:1 by , 17 years ago
Owner: | set to |
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Priority: | normal → high |
Summary: | --savepath=PATH broken → WIN (?): --savepath=PATH broken |
comment:2 by , 17 years ago
comment:3 by , 17 years ago
I can reproduce the problem, but only if I don't select a target name.
'scummvm --savepath=c:/tmp tentacle' uses the correct save path
'scummvm --savepath=c:/tmp' uses the default save path
The slashes aren't important, using forwardslash or backwardslash seems to work fine.
comment:4 by , 17 years ago
Owner: | changed from | to
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Summary: | WIN (?): --savepath=PATH broken → ALL: --savepath=PATH broken |
comment:5 by , 17 years ago
Thanks, I see now. This is indeed an old and complicated issue and I think it affects *all* command line settings, not just savepath. Supporting these leads to a certain clash with the options dialog.
Roughly, we don't want to accidentally overwrite the savepath set in the config file by the temporary savepath, which could/would happen when the user uses the options dialog.
comment:6 by , 16 years ago
This does not affect all command line options. I'm trying to use the following: --savepath=%U3_APP_DATA_PATH%\Save --extrapath=%U3_DEVICE_EXEC_PATH% --themepath=%U3_DEVICE_EXEC_PATH% --config=%U3_APP_DATA_PATH%\scummvm.ini
The last 3 work fine however the --savepath parameter seems to be ignored when a config file is specified.
It seems like a bug that command line options override config file options EXCEPT for --savepath. What's strange, though, is that Scumm is CHECKING the --savepath specified parameter because if that folder does not exist ScummVM.exe complains and exits.
comment:7 by , 16 years ago
Well, this happens because launcherDialog() clears the kTransientDomain domain; and this should actually also affect the extrapath & themepath, only that it's less noticable there, since the themepath is not needed anymore once the theme has been loaded.
So, despite all, this is still a generic problem, a deep conflict caused by our attempt to simultaneously support a command line and a graphical interface.
comment:8 by , 13 years ago
Owner: | removed |
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comment:9 by , 7 years ago
Component: | --Unset-- → GUI |
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This still reproduces for me in ScummVM 2.0.0.
To summarize, once the GUI loads, the configuration in the GUI overrides what was passed through via the command line.
comment:10 by , 4 years ago
Priority: | high → normal |
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It works great for me under Mac OS X.
Maybe a Windows specific problem. Kirben, can you confirm the issue?
Marek, can you try it with slashes instead of backslashes, just in case?