Good/Reliable Way to Determine Sage Install/Execution Directory

[cncb]

I don't see any API functions or properties that give me this. Is there a way to discover this directory without going to the registry (Windows only) or navigating from the current STV (which seems like it could easily become unreliable)?

[Morgan111]

Try GetWorkingDirectory()

[cncb]

Originally Posted by Morgan111

Try GetWorkingDirectory()

I know from past Windows programming that the working directory frequently changed due to opening a file from a specific location or other operations. Is that not the case with this API function? Thanks.

[Fonceur]

What about the SageTV version? I see GetRemoteClientVersion(), but what about the server itself?

[bastafidli]

I don't use Studio, but I know Sage under Linux has a problem with this. E.g. I am installing Sage into directories like this
/opt/sagetc/server_v1
/opt/sagetc/server_v2
/opt/sagetc/server_v3
then I create symlink to whichever verion I want to run l
/opt/sagetc/server -> /opt/sagetc/server_vx
and then I run
/opt/sagetc/server/start...

The problem is that Sage writes to property files and other places /opt/sagetc/server_vx rather than /opt/sagetc/server. I then have to go and manually change it.

[JREkiwi]

java_lang_System_getProperty("user.dir")

John

[cncb]

GetWorkingDirectory() does seem to work consistently on Windows at least. Thanks for the suggestions.

[GKusnick]

There's a new API in the recent betas for GetDefaultSTVFile(). You should be able to derive the install path from that.

[cncb]

Well, it turns out that GetWorkingDirectory() returns the working directory on the server even when it's used on a local software Client??

Is java_lang_System_getProperty("user.dir") the Java equivalent that would work on the local client?

I hesitate to navigate from the Default STV file location because it seems that this could easily change. Also, this might return the server default STV location too?

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by cncb

Well, it turns out that GetWorkingDirectory() returns the working directory on the server even when it's used on a local software Client??

This is known & has already been fixed for the next release.

- Andy

[cncb]

Originally Posted by Opus4

This is known & has already been fixed for the next release.

Excellent. Thanks.

[Opus4]

I figured I should post an update about this, since it changed again...

Originally Posted by cncb

Well, it turns out that GetWorkingDirectory() returns the working directory on the server even when it's used on a local software Client??

The next version (v6.5.7) will revert to having GetWorkingDirectory() return the working dir on the SageTV server. We decided it was a mistake to have changed that because clients need to be able to get the server's working dir.

Is java_lang_System_getProperty("user.dir") the Java equivalent that would work on the local client?

Yes, you should use java_lang_System_getProperty("user.dir") to get the working dir on the local client.

The next default STV will contain this change.

- Andy