[Solved] OXPing on Windows, shift key not flushing the cache

[RyanHoots]

Well, I'm stuck, and I need help.

While OXPing on my new Windows-running PC (boo), I have a problem with flushing the cache. The computer is so fast that I can't hit the shift key fast enough to get Oolite to know I want it to reload my OXPs.

On Linux, I'd open the GNUstep defaults file and tell Oolite to always flush the cache on startup, however I can't seem to locate the file on Windows.

So, my questions are: Is there a better way to get the cache to flush? Can that GNUsteps file be found hidden in Window's sloppy mess of a filesystem? Should I just install Linux?

[Thargoid]

It should be under <oolite root>/oolite.app/GNUstep/Defaults as .GNUstepDefaults

Or alternately you can just put a fake folder.oxp (or whatever) folder in your addons, and when you want to refresh the cache just rename it to somethingelse.oxp. The game will detect that change as a newly installed OXP (and a removed one), that the cache is now stale and it will rebuild it.

[RyanHoots]

It should be under <oolite root>/oolite.app/GNUstep/Defaults as .GNUstepDefaults

Or alternately you can just put a fake folder.oxp (or whatever) folder in your addons, and when you want to refresh the cache just rename it to somethingelse.oxp. The game will detect that change as a newly installed OXP (and a removed one), that the cache is now stale and it will rebuild it.

Thanks, it's working now.

[JazHaz]

I have

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"always-flush-cache" = YES;

set in .GNUstepDefaults.

It does flush the cache every time on my Win7 laptop.

[Eric Walch]

The computer is so fast that I can't hit the shift key fast enough to get Oolite to know I want it to reload my OXPs.

I can shift-click the Oolite icon to launch Oolite, so the shift is pressed before the computer knows that I am to be launching Oolite. Or is your computer so fast and intelligent that it can predict that you will launch Oolite after you press the shift key?

Or do strange things happen in Windows when the shift was already pressed on Oolite launch?

[another_commander]

I can shift-click the Oolite icon to launch Oolite, so the shift is pressed before the computer knows that I am to be launching Oolite. Or is your computer so fast and intelligent that it can predict that you will launch Oolite after you press the shift key?

Or do strange things happen in Windows when the shift was already pressed on Oolite launch?

No, nothing strange happens. Pressing shift before launching the game works fine on Windows too.