Re: [Gnumed-devel] Portable GNUmed issue

[James Busser]

On 22-Sep-08, at 5:15 PM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> > I am looking at my newly started (hurray!! ) GNUmed Porable  
> > client, the
> > thing is I think I discovered why I could not run it it the other  
> > PC ...
> >
> > I think the GNUmed client makes a \.gnumed  folder in the  
> > HARDDRIVE with
> > all
> > the GNUmed config files in the  "current user" folder.
>
> It does and it requires that. But not "on the harddrive" but rather  
> "in the home directory". So you may
> need to use a symlink for .gnumed or put the homedir onto the stick  
> or something similar.
>
> > Well if this is the case then it will be IMPOSSIBLE for me to make  
> > it run
> > in
> > some of these PC´s ... Besides when I read the wiki for the first  
> > time
> > the
> > thing I liked the most is it´s ability to NOT leave anything behind

Maybe the portable could recognize when \.gnumed resides on a volume  
that (being the hard drive) is different than the volume (the  
portable drive) from which the software is being run. This might  
permit both the GNUmed menu > "Exit" command as well as the exception  
handler "Close GNUmed" buttons to delete \.gnumed as part of the exit  
process. (?)