Re: [Gnumed-devel] Portable GNUmed issue

[Sebastian Hilbert]

On Dienstag 23 September 2008, James Busser wrote:
> 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. 

I cannot follow here. What we could do is tell gnumed to write to a special 
directory and make sure it is on the stick by say telling gnumed we are on 
windows and it should write to c:\gnumed\client\tmp or whatever the location 
for GNUmed on the stick is.

> 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. (?)

Yes but GNUmed needs to know where to look for these files.


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