Finding the SageMC STVs directory

[Ikarius]

Okay, so I've been doing a bit of digging on this, and I haven't come up with a suitable answer.

I'm looking for a cross-platform manner for locating the SageTV STVs directory.

The Sage API provides GetWorkingDirectory(), but the return from this is always context of the server. Unfortunately in the case of Sage Clients, it's not useful, as the client executes it's java on the client computer, not on the server, so if the client is a different OS or even installed in a different location, GetWorkingDirectory does not work.

Using the java native function java_lang_System_getProperty("user.dir") is closer, as it works correctly whether the client is an extender (returns the working directory from the server), or whether the client is a full-blown sagetv client (returns the working directory of the sage client process). Unfortunately, even this isn't entirely cross-platform safe, as Mac clients have their "STVs" directory separate from the install location of the actual client process.

So.... what's the right way to do this? I am trying to come up with a safe cross-platform mechanism for building a directory relative to "STVs/SageTV3" where I can drop some pre-set layouts for the user.

Cheers
Ikarius

[MeInMaui]

You could try GetDefaultSTVFile() or GetCurrentSTVFile() and extract the parent directory from there. Of course I'm not sure how cross-platform safe this is either.

Aloha,
Mike

[Ikarius]

Ahah! Thanks- I suspect that will work, since on extenders the STV is on the server, and on clients, the STV is on the client.... I completely missed that over in the widget API.... I'd looked through the config API, the Global API, and the Utility API, never thinking to look in the widget API.

EDIT: It works perfectly. Thank you so much!

Cheers
Ikarius