Fail in loading config.lua in readline part about dcs-config-manager HOT 8 CLOSED

Thank you @Steveveepee for opening the issue and pre-qualifying this much... and adding the file :-)

Unfortunately, even with your file, it doesn't crash for me. But your suggestion was correct - where I actually use try/catch here, I added the e.message to show what's wrong.

Would you be so kind and test this version? Haven't published this one yet, so please DL this zip.
R3.zip

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Thanks, It's a path error.

Its looking for C:\Users*username*\SavedGames\DCS\config\options.lua

I don't have the base DCS folder with a config\options.lua in my Saved Games folder.

I do have Saved Games\DCS.openalpha and Save Games\DCS.openbeta with the correct structure for each under that.

Sounds like it needs some fall through logic to find a options.lua in one or more of these folders.

Regards,
Steve.

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Thanks @Steveveepee for the info. In that case you'll have to use the settings tab to tell the app where your config folder is for that instance. That's why I gave the option to change the path for each installation... but obviously didn't test this case good enough :-)

Btw I just "guess" the path in the app (looking directly at %userprofile%\Saved Games) - can't check right now (I'm on an airport) - but DCS doesn't note the config path in the registry, so I can't detect where it is. My guess is/was that the majority of all users will have it where it originally gets saved.

Planned changes to the app: I need to overhaul the error handling & messages that this case is communicated to the user properly - not as an error per se, but a notification, on first load.

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I cant get to the settings tab at all, the program exits after the first options.lua cant be found.

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Yeah :-) The panic was implemented pretty late and I simply forgot to test that scenario. Will have an update ready within the day.

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@Steveveepee Hmmm actually I do check for the existance of the directory at least...
So I build "%userprofile%\Saved Games\DCS" and check for it's existance. This seems to be true for you as I only try to read the options lua in that case (I then add \config\options.lua). Only then it would run into the situation you're facing.

Does this mean you have a DCS folder (no matter the content) in Saved Games, but the "real content" is elsewhere? Can you give me the full path to your options.lua?

I get the feelign that you might be "breaking" the "Basefolder+config+options.lua"-formula.

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@Steveveepee if you're still interested - I added logging to the recent pre-release that will help me understand you problem better. You can get it via https://github.com/TheFitzZZ/DCS-Config-Manager/releases/download/R3Pre1/PreRelease-Portable-R3.zip

It'll drop a log in %localappdata%\DCSConfMgr - please upload this here.

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Closed due to inactivity by OP - feel free to open it again.

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