[Tuxpaint-devel] Stamps installer on Windows

[John P. <jo...@jo...>]

Hi All,

just finishing off the installer for the Tux Paint Stamps collection on
Windows.

The Stamps can be installed for all users in the application directory:

'C:\Program Files\TuxPaint\data\stamps\'

or just for the current user in a personal directory:

'C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Application Data\TuxPaint\stamps\'

along with that users drawings.

Note that one of these locations has a missing 'data\' element which is
causing me a slight headache.

It would be nice if the installer didn't fiddle about with relative
destination paths based on whether it thought you were installing in the
application directory or in the users data directory. It would mean that
for the situation where a restricted user is installing the stamps they
could *manually* choose to install the stamps in their data directory
(the default) or in their local Tux Paint application directory and have
it work correctly.


Would anyone object if I added additional search paths in the Tux Paint
executable to check for stamps and fonts directories inside a 'data\'
directory in the users 'home' directory on Windows?

e.g. Tux Paint would search these places for stamps:

C:\Program Files\TuxPaint\data\stamps\*
C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Application Data\TuxPaint\stamps\*
C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Application Data\TuxPaint\data\stamps\*

and something equivalent for fonts (anything else?) and of course using
the correct registry entries instead of the absolute stuff shown above
:-)

It would also make zipped stamps easy to install in both locations: just
unzip in the relevant TuxPaint directory,

cheers,
John.