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20050415: IDV - setting PATHS for the IDV

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  • Subject: 20050415: IDV - setting PATHS for the IDV
  • Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 13:11:10 -0600


Inquiry: How do you set the USERPATH APPPATH etc for the IDV xml resource files?



Hi Stu,
The  IdvResourceManager does this:
   /**
    * Initialize the macro values
    *
    */
   private void initResourceMacros() {
       macroNames = new String[] {
           "%USERPATH%", "%SITEPATH%", "%IDVPATH%", "%DATAPATH%",
           "%APPPATH%", "%VERSION%", "%VERSION.MAJOR%", "%VERSION.MINOR%",
           "%VERSION.REVISION%"
       };



       macroValues = new String[] {
           getUserPath(), getSitePath(), getIdvResourcePath(),
           getDataResourcePath(), getAppResourcePath(),
           getStateManager().getVersion(),
           getStateManager().getVersionMajor(),
           getStateManager().getVersionMinor(),
           getStateManager().getVersionRevision()
       };
   }
For the app path it looks to see if there is an apppath property if not it uses the package of the main IDV class. 

For user path it calls:
getStore().getUserDirectory().getPath();
Which either looks at the command line -userpath argument or defaults to be ~/.metapps/<Main IDV Class Name> 

Site path is either command line argument or from the User Preferences gui
You can change all of these by overwriting the appropriate IdvResourceManager method in a GeonResourceManager 
class.

-Jeff