#3911 closed defect (fixed)
WINCE: "ScummVM.ini" is overwritten everytime ScummVM starts
| Reported by: | SF/lostech | Owned by: | SF/knakos |
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| Priority: | normal | Component: | Port: WinCE |
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| Cc: | Game: |
Description
The actual (26th august 2008) build of ScummVM V0.13.0 does overwrite the existing "ScummVM.ini" with default settings everytime ScummVM is started. Therefore it is not possible to configure ScummVM or to add games.
Compiler: Cygwin/cegcc
Tested on: PocketPC simulator (WM5 image) Loox N560
Ticket imported from: #2075491. Ticket imported from: bugs/3911.
Change History (17)
comment:1 by , 16 years ago
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comment:2 by , 16 years ago
comment:3 by , 16 years ago
Yes, you´re right. Actual TRUNK build is meant which shows up as 0.13.0 in the "About" dialogue.
comment:4 by , 16 years ago
Yep, I haven't built from trunk since we branched 0.12.0. So yes, this is probably due to the the new config file stuff. Should be straightforward to address (:he said and ended up rewriting the FS API :-)).
I'll get to this shortly.
comment:5 by , 16 years ago
Just wanted to say that this isn't a WinCE specific issue. It also occurs in the regular Windows build of ScummVM
comment:6 by , 16 years ago
Hmm, I can not affirm that. An actual trunk build of the Windows version does not show up this problem on my side. Did you compile with MSVC or with MinGW/MSYS as I did?
comment:7 by , 16 years ago
Ah I'm sorry, my mistake
It *does* overwrite scummvm.ini, but *not* with default settings
(and I've compiled it using MSVC, but the compiler shouldn't matter in this case)
comment:8 by , 16 years ago
Kostas, did you have a chance to look into this yet? Can you reproduce it?
comment:9 by , 16 years ago
Not yet I'm afraid. But I have hopes for a scummvm session this weekend :-) [hope springs eternal :-)]
comment:10 by , 16 years ago
Does this still occur? Kostas, can you do some testing (at least building ScummVM, running it, confirming the issue) ?
P.S.: lostech, FYI, "actual" does *not* mean "current, recent", as you seem to think. In particular, it is a false-friend for the german word "aktuell" (that one confused me a lot).
comment:11 by , 16 years ago
Because of that "actual/recent" issue I had written the initial bug description with a date which which was intended to make it more clear ;-) Nevertheless I "recently" *g* compiled a build and the bug was still there making the trunk WinCE ScummVM unusuable. So the regular V0.12.0 is still the last WinCE version which can be used.
comment:12 by , 16 years ago
Can somebody tell me where ScummVM stores its .ini file on WinCE in general (resp. on the affected device(s) in particular) ?
One guess would be that ScummVM tries to load the .ini file from point A, but stores it in point B. This would explain why it keeps being overwritten with some "default". Maybe there are multiple scummvm.ini files on your system (e.g. one in extrapath, and one in wherever ScummVM write the .ini to) ?
comment:13 by , 16 years ago
This is exactly what I'll be tackling next. scummvm.ini is written in the cwd, the notion of which (cwd) dows not exist on ce. A full path must be given. So iirc the situation is similar with the regular windows port (I remember a conversation with kirben and md5 on the list).
comment:14 by , 16 years ago
Aha. Well in that case it should be easy to fix: Decide where the .ini should be stored, then overload OSystem_SDL::openConfigFileForReading and OSystem_SDL::openConfigFileForWriting accordingly. Or alternatively modify their defs in sdl.cpp (though an overload would be cleaner).
comment:16 by , 16 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
comment:17 by , 6 years ago
| Component: | → Port: WinCE |
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Not sure what yo mean with "actual build", and also note that there is no ScummVM 0.13.0 yet -- so, could you clearify: Are you talking about a trunk build (which will becomes 0.13 or so one day) ?
If so, this is possibly caused by the new config file OSystem API. Kostas?