Okay, I guess I'm still confused. What is the proposed location for the help PDFs?
> On Nov 17, 2014, at 8:36 PM, Adam Wolf <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Garth, > > I agree 100%. I can create a path to the included bundled help PDFs with a > relative path from the currently running executable. > > If I was assuming they would be at /Applications/Kicad/Kicad.app I wouldn't > have to ask the program where it was running--I would just hardcode that :) > > This is definitely the whole point of bundling everything together--but both > the Windows and Linux installs appear to put the help files in a known > location, rather than in a relocatable bundle along with the executables like > we're doing on OS X, so it wasn't as easy as just adding a third location to > the file. > > Furthermore, I think I found a function call to get the path of the currently > running executable. As soon as I get it working I'll send a patch to the > list. > > Adam Wolf > Cofounder and Engineer > W&L > >> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:32 PM, Garth Corral <[email protected]> wrote: >> I’m not sure I understand what you mean. The application bundle would be >> kicad.app. Are you assuming that everyone will install the entire package >> directory in /Applications? If so, you shouldn’t. I, for one, only install >> the actual application bundle, kicad.app. I thought that this was the point >> of Bernhard doing all the work of bundling everything, so that folks can >> simply do a drag and drop install of the application as is customary on OS >> X. Assuming that I have a folder of stuff outside the bundle but in the >> applications folder breaks this. >> >> >> Garth >> >> >> >>> On Nov 17, 2014, at 8:16 PM, Adam Wolf <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> I'm trying to wrap up the last few remaining bugs before I'm happy with the >>> OS X package. >>> >>> One of them is to get the "Getting Started" and other help files to work. >>> My current packages put the help PDFs in English in the application bundle, >>> near the executables. Due to OS X custom, these are *probably* at >>> /Applications/Kicad/help/, but it is not safe to rely on that. On the >>> other hand, I can build a relative path from the current path of the >>> executable, and be relatively confident there. >>> >>> I am looking at SearchHelpFileFullPath and I see two bases for the >>> search--DEFAULT_INSTALL_PATH and the KICAD environment variable. >>> >>> Is there an easy way to get the path to the currently running executable in >>> this file? >>> >>> I am definitely still learning my way around the code base... >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> Adam Wolf >>> Cofounder and Engineer >>> W&L >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> Post to : [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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