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[drneau]

Save your consoles to a file called "MyConsoles.drnc" and put it in your home directory. When you start the tool, it will look in your home directory for this file and attempt to load it.

On windows, your home directory is typically "C:\Documents and Settings\<username>".

On Linux/UNIX, if you don't know where your home directory is, stop using Linux/UNIX.

On Mac OS X, your home directory should be "/home/<username>", unless you changed it.

[jalsing]

[i8dbear]

this is a great feature.

On Mac OSX, the path description noted by our fearless leader translates to your Home folder, or <harddrivename>/Users/<username>/.

For what it's worth, Jeff, from a Mac perspective, this is a somewhat clumsy place to store it. Stuff like this usually goes in a folder like <harddrive>/Library/ApplicationSupport/<application name>/ or it gets stored in the application folder itself. But I understand that we are just put-upon minorities and you must serve the greater unwashed masses

[RPRobins]

I think the user should get to set a home directory in the program's settings. I'm on XP and I've been putting all of the files in c:\poker\Tournament Manager\. The "My Documents" folder in Windows gets way too cluttered. I'd at least like to see it default to c:\Documents and Settings\(username)\Tournament Manager\.

Nevertheless, yet another good feature you've added!

[drneau]

[jumperjeff]

I'll throw in my 2 cents...

I've never hosted a tournament, so when I go to a home game, I take my laptop with me. This laptop belongs to my employer so I have to be careful what I install on it and where.

I really like TM because it doesn't require an install, and it runs from a single folder which can be stored on a USB memory key. (See where I'm going with this?)

I'd really like to be able to change the default save location from my "home directory" because where I work, this directory is automatically synchronized with on of our network drives, so technically, I'm putting poker stuff on our company drives. Probably not a good idea.

Please consider making the application folder the default location or allow us to specify it somehow.

[jumperjeff]

One more thing on this topic.

I created a MyConsoles.drnc and put it in c:\documents and settings\<username> and it does try to load it, but the password prompt comes up. (This may be by design.)

I must say that this probably isn't the best place for this file though. There are some important files in that folder (ntuser.dat for one) and as an IT professional, I'd recommend that people DON'T use this folder for anything.

The other suggestions in this thread are alright, but the root of the 'home' directory seems a little scary to me.

[MarcoB]

Doc,

Cant we just create a small text file somewhere which can contain some basic settings, I would prefer this file to be in the dirctory where the tournament manager is located (just dont included that file in the distribution) , but if it has to be the home directory, I dont care :

password:
path/name to tournament to load (for those who like to)
path/name to console to load (for those who like to)

[drneau]

This is a good idea.
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[Seitz333]

I tried the MyConsoles.drnc file and it works but it always puts the default internal audio clip selections back in, even if I remove them before I save the file. If I select an outside audio clip for an alert that does not have a default it will save my selected audio clip. If I try to replace one of the internal audio clips with an external clip it will default back to the internal clip.

Chuck

[drneau]

A couple updates here.

The default settings are now specified within the tool. Much more streamlined than what is mentioned here.

The bugs talked about in this thread are also fixed.
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