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VBA-M works in Windows 7

Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 4:51 pm
by spacy51

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I did not expect otherwise anyhow ;) 

SVN886:
Settings are now stored in "C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Roaming\VBA-M" for Vista. XP has a simliar structure.
File associations now work on a per-user basis with Vista and UAC enabled.

EDIT:

I just uploaded SVN888 to SourceForge.

I'd like to know if my current build environment breaks anything:

  • Windows 7 RTM x64

  • Visual C++ 2008 SP1

  • Windows 7 SDK RTM x64

  • DirectX SDK March 2009

  • OpenAL 1.1 SDK (ver 3.05)

  • NASM 2.07

  • zlib 1.2.3

  • libpng 1.2.39


VBA-M works in Windows 7

Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 10:37 pm
by ZachBacon

can't say I like this change "Settings are now stored in "C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Roaming\VBA-M" for Vista. XP has a simliar structure." I believe in a truely portable vba-m now I know it will still work with the settings in the actual application folder itself but I work on VisualBoyAdvance-MPortable and well sad to say sometimes the launcher doesn't shutdown properly and settings get stuck in a place that isn't supposed to be in like C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Roaming\VBA-M, my suggestion is introduce something like a commandline -portable "path to settings file (IE) C:/vba-m or C:/Data/VBA-M" this would work better in the long run and will allow you to keep your idea but allow for a better setup for my project over at PortableApps.com


VBA-M works in Windows 7

Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 4:17 pm
by Squall Leonhart

Don't dynamically link libpng, for some reason doing so has the screen capture function crash the emulator


VBA-M works in Windows 7

Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 4:36 pm
by spacy51

SVN893: command line changes:

either:
vba.exe YOURROMHERE
or:
vba.exe --configpath YOURCONFIGPATHHERE
or:
vba.exe --configpath YOURCONFIGPATHHERE YOURROMHERE

YOURCONFIGPATHHERE must not end with a \ character
Don't try to change positions, as I was not in the mood to write a full-fledged command line parser. And I hate string handling.


VBA-M works in Windows 7

Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 12:42 pm
by SCHUMI4EVER

I know this thread is way out of date but if a user is stupid enough to put the emu into a protected folder like Documents or Program Files the change below (which is in all future VBA-M versions) causes problems cuz it remembers the original (protected) location when trying to create saves even once the emu has been moved to a neutral location in an attempt to get saving to work. It's best just to keep it in the folder same as before.

Settings are now stored in "C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Roaming\VBA-M" for Vista