Re: [Rails-devel] Opening save files directly

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

Not being a Java programmer, I'm not clear on how to check if something is
in my jar.

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Chris

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On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Erik Vos <eri...@hc...> wrote:

>  Chris,
>
> If it isn't included in the jar file (IMO it should be), you can find it at
> the top level in the CVS source on sourceforge.net.
>
> If Rails can't find it after you have installed it, you can add the
> following option to the rails.bat startup script, immediately after *java*:
>
> -Dconfigfile=<path>/my.properties
>
> Erik.
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Chris Shaffer [mailto:chr...@gm...]
> *Sent:* Friday 06 November 2009 06:05
>
> *To:* Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
> *Subject:* Re: [Rails-devel] Opening save files directly
>
> Where would one find the my.properties file?  I've searched all the rails
> directories without success.
>
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> Chris
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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.
>>
>>  ------------------------------
>> *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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