> 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
