Hi there,
I'd like to suggest a small change to the way ArcEm finds files -
made a bit more relevant due to hostfs stuff. Currently the default
assumption is that ArcEm looks for files in the current working dir.
On Mac OS X and Windows this is a broken assumption, as users will
click on an icon. I'd like to suggest that ArcEm looks in a directory
specified by a user configuration file. And in the X11 version it
just forces the user to cd before they run arcem.
Instead we should have the user's specified launch directory as a
parameter in the user's config file (e.g., .arcem on unix). Then
looking for things like the ROM file, hostfs dir, etc. they can be
help there. Any objections?
The other thing rjek and I discussed was creating a platform
independent wrapper for getting info from config files - on X it
would read ~/.arcem, and Mac OS X it would look in ~/Library/
Preferences/arcem.plist and so on. On most OSs this would just be a
wrapper for that platform's API for doing such things. For most of
what arcem has I imagine a simple key/value string interface should
suffice.
Any thoughts?
-- Michael
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