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[Garth Corral <gcorral@xxxxxxxxx>]

Okay, I guess I'm still confused.  What is the proposed location for the help PDFs?


> On Nov 17, 2014, at 8:36 PM, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi Garth,
> 
> I agree 100%.  I can create a path to the included bundled help PDFs with a relative path from the currently running executable.
> 
> If I was assuming they would be at /Applications/Kicad/Kicad.app I wouldn't have to ask the program where it was running--I would just hardcode that :)
> 
> This is definitely the whole point of bundling everything together--but both the Windows and Linux installs appear to put the help files in a known location, rather than in a relocatable bundle along with the executables like we're doing on OS X, so it wasn't as easy as just adding a third location to the file.
> 
> Furthermore, I think I found a function call to get the path of the currently running executable.  As soon as I get it working I'll send a patch to the list.
> 
> Adam Wolf
> Cofounder and Engineer
> W&L
> 
>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:32 PM, Garth Corral <gcorral@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I’m not sure I understand what you mean.  The application bundle would be kicad.app.  Are you assuming that everyone will install the entire package directory in /Applications?  If so, you shouldn’t.  I, for one, only install the actual application bundle, kicad.app.  I thought that this was the point of Bernhard doing all the work of bundling everything, so that folks can simply do a drag and drop install of the application as is customary on OS X.  Assuming that I have a folder of stuff outside the bundle but in the applications folder breaks this.
>> 
>> 
>> Garth
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Nov 17, 2014, at 8:16 PM, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi folks,
>>> 
>>> I'm trying to wrap up the last few remaining bugs before I'm happy with the OS X package.
>>> 
>>> One of them is to get the "Getting Started" and other help files to work.  My current packages put the help PDFs in English in the application bundle, near the executables.  Due to OS X custom, these are *probably* at /Applications/Kicad/help/, but it is not safe to rely on that.  On the other hand, I can build a relative path from the current path of the executable, and be relatively confident there.
>>> 
>>> I am looking at SearchHelpFileFullPath and I see two bases for the search--DEFAULT_INSTALL_PATH and the KICAD environment variable.
>>> 
>>> Is there an easy way to get the path to the currently running executable in this file?
>>> 
>>> I am definitely still learning my way around the code base...
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> 
>>> Adam Wolf
>>> Cofounder and Engineer
>>> W&L
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