Variables in Configure tools

[Michael Vogel]

Is it possible to get the information of the location of the Purebasic configuration file within a program which is used for a IDE tool?

I have programmed a nice extension which works fine, but I'd like to use it on my USB stick as well, where I have the full purebasic environment to be able to program everywhere.

So the drive letter can be different and I can't get the information of some settings - for instance the tabulator setting from the Purebasic config file.

Michael

[Little John]

Is it possible to get the information of the location of the Purebasic configuration file within a program which is used for a IDE tool?

I have programmed a nice extension which works fine, but I'd like to use it on my USB stick as well, where I have the full purebasic environment to be able to program everywhere.

So the drive letter can be different and I can't get the information of some settings - for instance the tabulator setting from the Purebasic config file.

Michael

By default, the file is in the

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%APPDATA%\PureBasic\

directory on the system. (%APPDATA% automatically provides the proper drive letter.)
The configuration file might be located somewhere else, depending on the command-line switches that you used when launching PB. For more details, see in the Help

IDE Commandline options

Regards, Little John

[Michael Vogel]

By default, the file is in the

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%APPDATA%\PureBasic\

[...]

IDE Commandline options

Regards, Little John

Thanks, Little John - I was searching within the help file for words, like Configure, Tools, but didn't find anything.

I'll try that now, hopefully it will work :roll:

Michael

[Michael Vogel]

I'll try that now, hopefully it will work :roll:

I did not see, that this can't work

The Environment variable %APPDATA does not show the path to the configure file (at least, when PB is started in portable mode)!

I use the portable mode, because I use my PB stuff also at work and don't want that anything is written to the registry (BTW I don't like the PB icons which get changed when the IDE is started without the /PORTABLE parameter)

So it's tricky to solve that - the only way I see is that the tool have to be given into a certain directory...

Michael

[Little John]

The Environment variable %APPDATA does not show the path to the configure file (at least, when PB is started in portable mode)!

Yes, that's the reason why I wrote:

The configuration file might be located somewhere else, depending on the command-line switches that you used when launching PB. For more details, see in the Help

IDE Commandline options

Here it is in German: IDE Kommandozeilen-Optionen.

Regards, Little John

[freak]

In portable mode, the preferences are always in the directory of the IDE, so for this case you can use the PB_TOOL_IDE variable like this:

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PreferenceFile$ = GetPathPart(GetEnvironmentVariable("PB_TOOL_IDE")) + "PureBasic.prefs"

I added PB_TOOL_Preferences as an environment variable for the tools for the next version.

[Michael Vogel]

In portable mode [...]you can use the PB_TOOL_IDE variable [...]

Thanks!

I added PB_TOOL_Preferences as an environment variable for the tools for the next version.

THANKS!

Michael