Am 07.03.2012 19:11, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd:
Sven Barth wrote:
A further question Mattias, if I just run the individual lazarus.exe
file in it's corresponding directory, I presume that would also be fine.
Although, I appreciate that I would have 2 completely seperate sets of
settings.
Without any parameters the settings are saved in %APPDATA%, so any
Lazarus would use/overwrite the settings of the other Lazarus. You
MUST pass the pcp parameter to all installations if you want different
configurations (Note: You can leave out the parameter for one
installation which will then use the default location).
When Lazarus reads the config file, what is the current directory (i.e.
. in unix and Windows)? Could this be used to specify the same location
as the binary?
I don't know whether Lazarus does a "SetCurrentDir", but in Unix it will
be the directory you started it from (if from the shell) or some other
directory if started through the desktop manager (I don't know which
methods are used there, I'd even need to check what wmii - which is the
WM I use - does there ^^). On Windows it will be the directory specified
in the shortcut (if started from a shortcut) or the current directory
(if started through cmd or by clicking the exe).
My opinion: don't rely on the current directory if you want to locate
configuration. In theory the approach "ExtractFilePath(ParamStr(0))"
could be used, but there can be problems on Unix systems with that.
Regards,
Sven
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