Windows & importing dives

[Dirk Hohndel]

"Lubomir I. Ivanov" <neolit123 at gmail.com> writes:

> On 5 March 2013 19:24, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 5 March 2013 18:46, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>>> Miika Turkia <miika.turkia at gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Seems that XSLT files are not found in Windows if subsurface is
>>>> invoked by opening a data file (and selecting subsurface as a program
>>>> to handle it). E.g. I use file exploder to double click on
>>>> testdives.DLD and select subsurface to handle the DLD files.
>>>
>>> Interesting. Windows is such an odd OS in the way things are found - I
>>> wonder what the CWD is when starting an app like this. And how it is
>>> able to switch back to its own executable path - as that is how we
>>> attempt to find the files.
>>>
>>> Lubomir, do you know more about this?
>>>
>>
>> i think for that to work in a clean way, we need to obtain the process
>> path (e.g. /proc/self/exe)
>>
>> char buf[MAX_PATH];
>> GetModuleFileName(NULL, buf, MAX_PATH);
>>
>> the buffer includes the executable name e.g. "<c:\....>\myfile.exe" so
>> it has to be stripped.
>>
>> the result then has to be put _in front_ at mark <P> using concat (of
>> sorts), but obviously on runtime:
>> static const char *xslt_path = <P> XSLT ":xslt:.";
>>
>> but also check if the XLST build for Windows accepts full paths with
>> drive letters.
>>
>
> i've just realized that the localization is not working as well when
> e.g. opening a .DLD file from the desktop, which means that the
> process working directory has to be changed, otherwise the location of
> all relative path assets is lost.

That's what I figured when I saw Miika's report - it's all using the
same logic.

> GetModuleFileName still has to be used, but then there is a method
> called SetCurrentDirectory which will have to accept the stripped
> path, unless there is a method that does both things at once.

Let's use the lowest common denominator that gets us XP and later :-)

I assume you'll send me patches at some point?

/D