> On Thursday 05 Feb 2009, Bernard Veasey wrote:
>> When using RPCemu 0.8.1 (spoon) - If I do the following in Windows to
>> create a RPCemu shortcut on the desktop I get a problem.

>> Windows desktop >
>> Start > All Programs > RPCemu > RPCemu Interpreter > right click >
>> Send To > Desktop (create shortcut)

>> When I then double-click the RPCemu icon on the desktop, instead of
>> it looking for the cmos.ram and hd4.hdf files in the
>> 'Program Files\RPCemu' folder, it looks for them on the desktop and
>> as it can't find any, it creates new ones there.

>> To make it work properly, I had to create a RPCemu desktop icon by
>> creating a shortcut from the original
>> 'Program Files\RPCemu\RPCemu-Interpreter.exe' file instead.

> Adny said:
> It sounds like the first method isn't filling in the "Start in" field of
> the shortcut wosname properly (presumably because it's creating a
> shortcut to a shortcut, or somesuch).  RPCemu (and various other
> programs, for that matter) need this 'start in' field to be set
> properly since they look for things in the current folder.
>
> Good ol' windows... so consistent and helpful :p  You can always edit
> the shortcut properties to fix the problem ;)

> Theo said:
> Right click over the shortcut, choose Properties.
>
> 'Start here' is the directory in which the program is started, so set
> it to C:\Program Files\RPCemu or whatever.

Thanks Adny and Theo - I only mentioned it so that the programmers
could correct the problem for future releases.

-- 
Email - [email protected]
Web - http://www.bapfish.org.uk/

_______________________________________________
Rpcemu mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.riscos.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rpcemu

Reply via email to