On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 7:18 PM, John J. Foerch <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 06:55:02PM -0500, Mark Roddy wrote:
>>
>> 1) How can I show error output of my RC file under Windows?  This
>> would have been much easier to debug had I had this info.
>>
>
>
>  I would really like to know... Any windows users willing to investigate
> this issue thoroughly would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>> 2) Is there a way to determine what the platform is within my RC file
>> so I can set the variable depending on the system?  Something like:
>> if IsWindows:
>>     cwd=make_file('C:\\Documents and Settings\\mark\\Desktop')
>> else:
>>     cwd=make_file('/home/mark/Desktop')
>>
>
>
>  No need to do that.  Just do this:
>
>    cwd=get_home_directory();
>
>  Then you can make relative paths platform-independently like this:
>
>    cwd.append("downloads");
>
>  Refer to the MDC docs about nsILocalFile and nsIFile for more
> information about manipulating these objects.
>
> --
> John Foerch
>

John,
Thanks for the tip!  I'm going to try and see if I can figure out the
lack of debugging info in the shell under Windows as it took me almost
20 minutes to figure out I had a typo in my conkerorrc when changing
it to use get_home_directory() (modern compilers have spoiled me), and
I'm sure I'm going to have to deal with this issue again in a few
weeks when I have to reboot into Windows again.  If I find anything
uselful I'll get it to you.

-Mark
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