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kolinger / rd-usb

Web GUI for RuiDeng/Riden USB testers (UM34C, UM24C, UM25C, TC66C)
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Would it be possible to set a different location for the data and configs and such? #35

Closed NastyFlytrap closed 2 years ago

NastyFlytrap commented 2 years ago

Appdata/local is nice and all, but i'd like to store everything thats there in a different folder. Could you add an option to specify that location in the WebGUI?

kolinger commented 2 years ago

Hi, application needs to know location before it starts thus setting location in web UI is too late.

What about if you could specify location with command-line argument via shortcut for example?

NastyFlytrap commented 2 years ago

Hi, application needs to know location before it starts thus setting location in web UI is too late.

What about if you could specify location with command-line argument via shortcut for example?

Its fine by me, i know my way around a terminal, but a good amount of people dont. Maybe the ability to set it in the config file?

I imagine, on bootup it could just read where the config file tells it to save, and move all of its files there, save the last location it copied to in the exe itself, and on next bootup it'd compare the location in itself to the config file, and if they match, skip the copying.

Or maybe thats too convoluted. Im not sure what the most user-friendly solution is.

kolinger commented 2 years ago

This is not feasible. There is no way to modify exe by itself and even to modify other exe is very complicated since it's in compressed form and not directly readable. This could be done only if you save another file besides exe in directory where is exe located. Do you think this is cleaner solution than CLI option?

NastyFlytrap commented 2 years ago

This is not feasible. There is no way to modify exe by itself and even to modify other exe is very complicated since it's in compressed form and not directly readable. This could be done only if you save another file besides exe in directory where is exe located. Do you think this is cleaner solution than CLI option?

Not really, but my goal was user accessibility, it'd deffinitely be a lot more pain and work for us, who have to think this up, create it, and bugfix it.

kolinger commented 2 years ago

I'm afraid there is no user-friendly way how to do this properly. At least there is some way how to do it now - see readme for details. Available in 1.7.2 version.

Does this solve your issue?

NastyFlytrap commented 2 years ago

I'm afraid there is no user-friendly way how to do this properly. At least there is some way how to do it now - see readme for details. Available in 1.7.2 version.

Does this solve your issue?

It sure does, thanks

NastyFlytrap commented 2 years ago

Wait, how do i set the option? I cant put that on an exe file because windows thinks i want to rename the file, and if i were to put that on a shortcut then it wouldnt look like your example, then it'd include its full location, and it'd be in quotation marks aswell...

kolinger commented 2 years ago

You can make shortcut. If you have spaces in path then you need to use quatation marks but only for paths not for option itself, like this:

"C:\some\program.exe" --data-dir "C:\data"

NastyFlytrap commented 2 years ago

Yea, thats kinda why i asked, since the formating in your example on the main page doesnt look like the text i'd find in a shortcut, which was kinda misleading. Thanks