Commandline option to select
I'm trying to make a portable Doomsday engine installation i.e. one that can travel with me on a USB stick or in my Dropbox, and which contains my savegames and settings. My main problem right now is that the runtime directory defaults to a location inside the local user's directory rather than in the main Doomsday dir.
The Command line options reference did not to help me, as it seems a bit outdated and does not include any references to the runtime directory. I tried its suggestions for selecting a savegame directory. It did not work.
For a moment I thought this problem was unsolvable and the location hardcoded, but then I discovered that the runtime directory is located in a different place depending on wether I run Doomsday from Snowberry or by itself.
Through Snowberry:
"C:\Users\_username_\Documents\Doomsday Frontend\runtime"
On its own:
"C:\Users\krank\AppData\Local\Deng Team\Doomsday Engine\runtime"
This means Snowberry's doing some magic to relocate the runtime folder. I downloaded Doomsday's source and tried sifting through SNowberry's source code but despite being familiar with python and the wx framework I as unable to find the commandline switch I'm guessing Snowberry adds (and doesn't tell you about - nothing shows up in "Preview commandline".
Soooo...
Anyone got any suggestions? Because aside from continuing to sift through the SNowberry python code, I'm out of ideas.
The Command line options reference did not to help me, as it seems a bit outdated and does not include any references to the runtime directory. I tried its suggestions for selecting a savegame directory. It did not work.
For a moment I thought this problem was unsolvable and the location hardcoded, but then I discovered that the runtime directory is located in a different place depending on wether I run Doomsday from Snowberry or by itself.
Through Snowberry:
"C:\Users\_username_\Documents\Doomsday Frontend\runtime"
On its own:
"C:\Users\krank\AppData\Local\Deng Team\Doomsday Engine\runtime"
This means Snowberry's doing some magic to relocate the runtime folder. I downloaded Doomsday's source and tried sifting through SNowberry's source code but despite being familiar with python and the wx framework I as unable to find the commandline switch I'm guessing Snowberry adds (and doesn't tell you about - nothing shows up in "Preview commandline".
Soooo...
Anyone got any suggestions? Because aside from continuing to sift through the SNowberry python code, I'm out of ideas.
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For me (on Ubuntu) Snowberry adds this command line switch. It doesn't show up when I hit "Preview commandline" inside snowberry, but I can see the switch is added when i check my doomsday.out:
Hope it will do the trick.