Re: [Bug-gnubg] Bug when opening from file icon a match saved in .sgf

[Holger]

At 18:18 13.10.2003, Joern Thyssen wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 11:46:24AM +0100, Jon Kinsey wrote
> > >
> > >I'd opt for the registry, unless it's possible by the installer to add
> > >the environment variable to the list of system env. variables.
> > >
> > >It shouldn't be that difficult to query the registry (or am I just being
> > >naïve)?
> >
> > Here's some sample code to read the value from the registry (I think this
> > works with 95):
>
> Thanks!
>
> I've committed code, so gnubg should initialise the data directory to
> the install directory.
>
> Can anyone of the windows-builders check if the code compiles and
> works?

It compiles and also works depending on how you define it. First of all 
getInstallDir() returned arbitrary memory if the key wasn't found. Fixed by 
initialising it to NULL.
And finally it simply depends on whether the installer sets 
HKLM\SOFTWARE\gnubg\Install_dir. Even if Oystein's current install package 
sets it, earlier packages probably didn't, so the key is missing. At least 
here on this machine it doesn't exist.
If we want to introduce this key maybe we should take: "HKLM\SOFTWARE\GNU 
Backgammon"?

Regards,

        Holger