Re: [Rails-devel] Opening save files directly

[Erik V. <eri...@hc...>]

There is an option in the user-customizable properties file (default name
my.properties) that you can set to your save-file directory:
save.directory=c:/projects/rails/save

By default this is commented out.

Erik.


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From: Chris Shaffer [mailto:chr...@gm...] 
Sent: Thursday 05 November 2009 20:26
To: Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
Subject: Re: [Rails-devel] Opening save files directly


My friend says this:



I've also spent the last half hour or so trying to implement Mr. Black's
suggestion for -Duser.dir, without success.  After several trials, I was
able to get Rails to start with that switch in place, but it always starts
out in "My Documents," regardless of what directory I specify for user.dir.



Any suggestions?

Also, is this something I should submit as a formal enhancement request?

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On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Jim Black <jim...@ya...> wrote:


Chris,

I might be able to help with the working directory- a Windows user
told me to use java's "-Duser.dir" argument to set the working
directory.  (I think that's -Duser.dir=/foo/bar, then- whatever the
typical java cmd-line syntax is.)  This is working for windows users,
apparently, but it doesn't work for me on my mac.

Incidentally, to get consistent time stamps in filenames (like GMT
time- independent of players' local timezones), start up rails like
this-
    java -Duser.timezone=UTC -jar rails-1.0.6.jar
That way, all timestamps will be in UTC format, and consistent.

Like you, I would also like to know how to associate the file type to
load java/rails- so I can just 'doubleclick' on someone's saved move.
It would be a little different windows vs mac, I guess, since it's
batch args to the java cmd line in either case (the association is to
java, I assume).

 - jim


On Nov 5, 2009, at 10:14 AM, Chris Shaffer wrote:

> Is there any way to associate the .rails extension with the program,
> so you can open a save file directly?  Failing that, is there a way
> to change the default location in which Rails looks for files?  I
> have a friend using Windows and it always defaults to opening his My
> Documents folder, instead of the Dropbox folder in which we're
> keeping the files.
>
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