Oolite Bulletins

CommRLock78 wrote:

Hat's off to Tricky and Wildeblood. Many thanks indeed fellas ! I just tested it and I have to say, I love this "OXP"; it's exactly what I was thinking when I created the thread.

CommRLock78 wrote:

Now, I have my usual noob kind of question: I placed the script.js in the /AddOns/Config folder, which I had to create, so the question is, is a folder named Config in the AddOns folder an extension to the "main" Config folder .

$ dx /cygdrive/c/Games/Oolite1.76.1/AddOns/Config/
total 61K
drwxr-sr-x+ 1 Richard Users    0 Jun 21 18:05 ./
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Richard Users    0 Aug 22 07:42 ../
-rw-r--r--+ 1 Richard Users 1.5K May 20 04:49 keyconfig.plist
-rw-r--r--+ 1 Richard Users  18K May 24 00:30 logcontrol.plist
-rw-r--r--+ 1 Richard Users  325 Jun 21 22:02 nebulatextures.plist
-rw-r--r--+ 1 Richard Users 1.5K Jul  5 01:41 planetinfo.plist

Tricky wrote:

Yes is the answer. As to script.js in Config I have no idea if that works. cim or Ahruman are probably best placed to answer that.

I have these in my base Config folder...

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$ dx /cygdrive/c/Games/Oolite1.76.1/AddOns/Config/
total 61K
drwxr-sr-x+ 1 Richard Users    0 Jun 21 18:05 ./
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Richard Users    0 Aug 22 07:42 ../
-rw-r--r--+ 1 Richard Users 1.5K May 20 04:49 keyconfig.plist
-rw-r--r--+ 1 Richard Users  18K May 24 00:30 logcontrol.plist
-rw-r--r--+ 1 Richard Users  325 Jun 21 22:02 nebulatextures.plist
-rw-r--r--+ 1 Richard Users 1.5K Jul  5 01:41 planetinfo.plist

/opt/Oolite/oolite.app/Resources/Config $ ls | more
autoAImap.plist
characters.plist
commodities.plist
crosshairs.plist
customsounds.plist
demoships.plist
descriptions.plist
equipment.plist
gpu-settings.plist
hud.plist
hud-small.plist
illegal_goods.plist
javascript-errors.plist
keyconfig.plist
logcontrol.plist
material-defaults.plist
missiontext.plist
nebulatextures.plist
oolite-font.plist
pirate-victim-roles.plist
planetinfo.plist
screenbackgrounds.plist
script-patches.plist
shipdata-overrides.plist
shipdata.plist
shipyard.plist
speech_pronunciation_guide.plist
startextures.plist
verifyOXP.plist
whitelist.plist
world-scripts.plist

~/.Oolite/AddOns/Config $ ls | more
script.js

CommRLock78 wrote:

My base Config folder has the following

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/opt/Oolite/oolite.app/Resources/Config $ ls | more

Commander McLane wrote:

That's not your base Config folder, that's Oolite's internal Config folder

Ahruman wrote:

Commander McLane wrote:

That's not your base Config folder, that's Oolite's internal Config folder

Do pay attention, old chap. He’s not modifying it.

Ahruman wrote:

AddOns/Config/script.js is expected to work, yes. AddOns/script.js should work just as well.

Commander McLane wrote:

CommRLock78 wrote:

My base Config folder has the following

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/opt/Oolite/oolite.app/Resources/Config $ ls | more

That's not your base Config folder, that's Oolite's internal Config folder (hint: it is inside oolite.app), and you should stay away from it under all circumstances.

Commander McLane wrote:

Perhaps as an addition: The downside of putting script.js directly into a folder (be it AddOns/Config/ or AddOns/) is that you can do it only once. If you want to script something else, you can't place it alongside your first script.js, because there can be no two files with the same name in the same folder. That's where the whole OXP-thing comes in. If you instead create a new folder inside AddOns/ and name it MyOXP.oxp (you would of course choose a name which says something about its content; but it has to end with '.oxp'), then you can create another Config-folder inside AddOns/MyOXP.oxp/ and put your script.js in there. Now all your script.js's can live happily alongside each other, because each one lives in its own subfolder of AddOns/.

CommRLock78 wrote:

So, now for the noob question, what would be the "base" or "main" folder, or does one even exist ?

Commander McLane wrote:

CommRLock78 wrote:

So, now for the noob question, what would be the "base" or "main" folder, or does one even exist ?

AddOns/

Ahruman wrote:

I disagree – referring to the built-in resources as the “base folder” makes a lot more sense.

CommRLock78 wrote:

Ahruman wrote:

I disagree – referring to the built-in resources as the “base folder” makes a lot more sense.

Kinda what I thought

Tricky wrote:

I have these in my base Config folder...

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$ dx /cygdrive/c/Games/Oolite1.76.1/AddOns/Config/     <--- look here, it's AddOns/
total 61K
drwxr-sr-x+ 1 Richard Users    0 Jun 21 18:05 ./
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Richard Users    0 Aug 22 07:42 ../
-rw-r--r--+ 1 Richard Users 1.5K May 20 04:49 keyconfig.plist
-rw-r--r--+ 1 Richard Users  18K May 24 00:30 logcontrol.plist
-rw-r--r--+ 1 Richard Users  325 Jun 21 22:02 nebulatextures.plist
-rw-r--r--+ 1 Richard Users 1.5K Jul  5 01:41 planetinfo.plist

Commander McLane wrote:

Regarding that 'base folder' was an ad-hoc coinage by Tricky in the quote above and does not exist as a technical term in the context of Oolite, I see no benefit in re-defining it to mean something else than it meant when Tricky used it.

Tricky wrote:

As for "Oolite1.76.1", that is the base game directory for the stable version of Oolite. I also have "OoliteTest" and "OoliteShadyPlanets" for the development branches of Oolite in the Games directory. (Which also means I have separate versions of AddOns in those directories as Windows does NOT understand links, even though Cygwin does.)