Re: [Rails-devel] Opening save files directly

[Chris S. <chr...@gm...>]

Where would one find the my.properties file?  I've searched all the rails
directories without success.

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On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Erik Vos <eri...@hc...> wrote:

>  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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> Chris
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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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