[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Jun 25, 10:02 am, Jason Zapman II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've written a program. To install this program, I'm going to need to >> initialize some stuff for the users environment, specifically the name/ >> location of an internal state file. >> >> Currently, I'm hard coding the location of this file, but that's in- >> elegant. What I'd like to do is just ask the user, with a suggested >> default. >> >> My question is how do I save this answer? It's kind of a chicken-and- >> egg problem. >> >> The only solution I've thought of is to write something that's self >> modifying, but that's ugly (go in, grep for this variable >> initialization, re-write that line with the new value, quit). Is >> there a better way to do this? There almost has to be... >> >> If not, are there some 'best practices' on how to do the self- >> modification? >> >> Thanks for any help; >> Jason > > I would think you could pop-up some dialog when the program is first > run to ask where they want the file to be. On the first run though, > you can just have the config file located in the current working > directory with the script file itself. Then just move it or save a new > copy to the new location and delete the original. > > Mike > Or, better still, leave it in place to act as the defaults for the next user who wants to start using this package?
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