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["Martin d'Allens" <martin.dallens@xxxxxxxxx>]

I managed to build KiCad on windows, it works as far as I can tell.

But to get it to work I had to remove a noname.pro that had been generated
before my patch was applied.
And with regedit I cleared HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/KiCad/kciad/file1.
Otherwise the stray noname.pro looks valid and there is no reason to
default to the home directory.

I don't think we should refuse to open a project named "noname.pro", so the
new behaviour will only apply to new installations.

I hope you missed this, or I should keep digging.

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 10:06 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hey Martin,
>
> Your patch does not seem to work on windows.  When I try to open a new
> project from kicad, the file open dialog still points to the kicad
> executable path.  In my case it's c:\mingw\bin.  The Eeschema change
> seems to work as expected.  Is it possible the path is getting changed
> in kicad somewhere before the file dialog is called?  Please take
> another look at your changes and see if you can resolve this issue.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wayne
>
> On 6/14/2015 12:26 PM, Martin d'Allens wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This recent bug complains about the default project path being in a
> > read-only directory on Windows:
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1463510
> >
> > The attached patch changes the default project folder to wx's
> > GetDocumentsDir(), which should translate to "$HOME", "...\My Documents"
> > (Win), or "~/Documents" (Mac).
> > I tested it solely on Ubuntu.
> >
> > There could be more scenarios where we want to do the same. I tried to
> > extend this behaviour to Eeschema's standalone mode for starters, tell
> > me if more needs be done.
> >
> > However the behaviour of writing to some default directory without
> > asking is unsettling. I suppose most noname.pro <http://noname.pro> /
> > noname.sch wouldn't exist if a "Save as" popup was shown the first time.
> >
> > Martin
> >
> >
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