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how to locate renegade folder programmatically [message #230011]

Sat, 11 November 2006 13:07

jonwil
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Does anyone have any information on how to locate the renegade data folder programmatically?

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Re: how to locate renegade folder programmatically [message #230038 is a reply to message #230011]

Sat, 11 November 2006 15:24

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You could maybe use the Renegade install path from the registry ?

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Re: how to locate renegade folder programmatically [message #230048 is a reply to message #230038]

Sat, 11 November 2006 16:10

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I have noticed your debug script places debug files in the Renegade directory, I use this script to set stuff up for my levels, I just put "data/name" in the file name spot, and it saves the file to the Renegade directory.

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Re: how to locate renegade folder programmatically [message #230072 is a reply to message #230011]

Sat, 11 November 2006 18:36

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using namespace Microsoft::Win32;

String^ Install_Path = Convert::ToString(Registry::GetValue("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Westwood\\Renegade\\", "InstallPath", "Error getting data."));

Since it returns the path with "Renegade.exe" at the end, simply remove the last 12 characters from the return value.

Install_Path = Install_Path->Remove(Install_Path->Length - 12, 12);

Then append the path to the data folder.

Install_Path += "\Data\";

The full method:

using namespace Microsoft::Win32;

String ^Install_Path = Convert::ToString(Registry::GetValue("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Westwood\\Renegade\\", "InstallPath", "Error getting data."));
	Install_Path = Install_Path->Remove(Install_Path->Length - 12, 12);
	Install_Path += "\Data";

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[Updated on: Sat, 11 November 2006 18:46]

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Re: how to locate renegade folder programmatically [message #230535 is a reply to message #230011]

Tue, 14 November 2006 19:19

jnz
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johnwill is using C? so that wont work. good reply though.

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Re: how to locate renegade folder programmatically [message #230579 is a reply to message #230535]

Wed, 15 November 2006 04:36

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That code looks like AIDS, Dave Anderson.

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Re: how to locate renegade folder programmatically [message #230582 is a reply to message #230579]

Wed, 15 November 2006 05:25

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Silent Kane wrote on Wed, 15 November 2006 12:36

That code looks like AIDS, Dave Anderson.

Maybe, instead of just flaming his code you could tell him actually WHAT he should improve.

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Re: how to locate renegade folder programmatically [message #230603 is a reply to message #230011]

Wed, 15 November 2006 08:45

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Well for a start the += operator is a numeric function, not a concatenation operator... you should use the strcat() function for that.

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Re: how to locate renegade folder programmatically [message #230604 is a reply to message #230011]

Wed, 15 November 2006 09:14

jonwil
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Actually Danpaul88, it is possible to use operator overloading to make the += operator do whatever you want on your own data types.

Whether microsoft has an appropriate operator+= function in whatever .NET language that code is in I dont know.

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