[Opensim-users] Making Viewer Portable

[Jeroen van Veen]

did you checked out the cache-entry in app_settings/settings.xml ? =>

    <key>CacheLocation</key>
    <map>
      <key>Comment</key>
      <string>Controls the location of the local disk cache</string>
      <key>Persist</key>
      <integer>1</integer>
      <key>Type</key>
      <string>String</string>
      <key>Value</key>
      <string />
    </map>

jeroen

On Friday 05 June 2009 04:55:05 Len Brown wrote:
> Right on.  That is where the cache is stored by default.  That can be
> changed in the application BUT those settings are all stored as registry
> settings.  Those settings are what I'd like to have as an ini file rather
> than registry settings.
>
> For example, if you go into Second Life and change the cache to be stored
> on a thumb drive along with the main application, if you plug the thumb
> into a different computer and run Second Life, all the settings revert to
> default, including the default cache storage location you pointed out.
>
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Teravus Ovares <teravus at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I thought it was stored in:
> >
> > C:\Documents and Settings\<Windows UserName>\Application Data\SecondLife
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
> > Teravus
> >
> > On 6/4/09, Len Brown <lenwbrown at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hey there everyone!
> > >
> > >      Recently I've been working on making the Open Simulator Virtual
> >
> > World
> >
> > > Platform 100% portable.  I've set up the OpenSim server and a separate
> >
> > MySQL
> >
> > > server both on an external thumb drive.  I have copied the installation
> > > directory of the Hippo viewer to the thumb as well but discovered that
> >
> > when
> >
> > > I made changes to the viewer those changes were ignored when loading on
> > > a different computer.
> > >
> > >      I realized the viewer settings are all saved to the system
> > > registry (I'm using Windows XP).  Would it be possible to instead
> > > compile a viewer
> >
> > so
> >
> > > that all internal changes are instead saved to an ini file - like
> > > OpenSim is?  This way a person could have a truly 100% portable copy of
> > > OpenSim, MySQL server and viewer all on a thumb drive and keeping all
> > > settings
> >
> > intact
> >
> > > when going from system to system.
> > >
> > > Thanks for any input on this!
> > >
> > > - Len W. Brown
> > >      lenwbrown at gmail.com
> > >
> > >
> > >
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