From: H.G. Muller <h.g.muller@hccnet.nl>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:28:54 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Let WinBoard recognize ~ in settings file name as HOMEPATH
X-Git-Url: http://winboard.nl/cgi-bin?a=commitdiff_plain;h=21b3e61d8cd19bc5c916def127f055da7faf6cc2;p=xboard.git

Let WinBoard recognize ~ in settings file name as HOMEPATH

Fetch the appropriate environment variable to build the mathname in
MySearchPath() whenever the file name starts with "~\".
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diff --git a/winboard/winboard.c b/winboard/winboard.c
index 195ecfc..509ba76 100644
--- a/winboard/winboard.c
+++ b/winboard/winboard.c
@@ -1223,6 +1223,14 @@ int
 MySearchPath(char *installDir, char *name, char *fullname)
 {
   char *dummy;
+  if(name[0] == '~' && name[1] == '\\') { // [HGM] recognize ~ as HOMEPATH environment variable
+    installDir = getenv("HOMEPATH");
+    name += 2;
+    strcpy(fullname, installDir);
+    strcat(fullname, "\\");
+    strcat(fullname, name);
+    return strlen(fullname);
+  }
   return (int) SearchPath(installDir, name, NULL, MSG_SIZ, fullname, &dummy);
 }