Opened 7 years ago
Last modified 7 years ago
#9701 closed defect
WINDOWS: Flow of taking screenshots on Windows is broken — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | salty-horse | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Component: | --Other-- |
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| Cc: | Game: |
Description
When installing ScummVM with Windows installer, taking screenshots with alt+s always fails silently.
ScummVM's Windows installer installs the program in %PROGRAMFILES%, as it should. This directory requires Administrator permissions, which the installer requests.
The installer also creates shortcuts to run ScummVM. These set the current directory to the installation dir: %PROGRAMFILES%\ScummVM.
Since ScummVM is run without Administrator permissions (which is good), and alt+s tries to save screenshots in the current directory, nothing happens.
I propose the following:
1) Screenshots should be saved in a user-owned directory. I think "%USERPROFILE%\My Pictures" is the common place for those. Alternatively, we can use the directory we already create for save games and configuration: %APPDATA$\ScummmVM\Screenshots
2) When alt+s fails to save the screenshot, it should say something. Maybe it should pop up a message using the GUI, or maybe it should write a line to the debug console.
Maybe it already prints an error to stdout, but on Windows 9 I got no console even when running the regular ScummVM shortcut (the one that didn't have "(no console)" in its name). Separate bug?
3) If ScummVM has other non-debugging files it saves to the current directory (that is, files that regular users are expected to create without technical knowledge) we should redirect those to the %APPDATA% dir, if possible.
