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[Fixed] InfraRecorder Portable 0.50 Rev 3 loses settings

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July 27, 2010 - 9:47am
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Bruce Pascoe
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[Fixed] InfraRecorder Portable 0.50 Rev 3 loses settings

InfraRecorder 0.50 Rev 3 keeps losing its settings--after configuring it, closing it, and relaunching it, all its settings have been reset.

I tried tracking this down myself, but I couldn't fix it. However, I did find something interesting: Settings.xml is apparently being corrupted very badly in the process of being moved from Data\settings to App\InfraRecorder, resulting in this XML:

			<TempPath>C:\Users\Ginny\AppData\Local\Temp\InfraRecorderPortable\</TempPath>
			<ShellDir>L
			<WindowLeft></WindowLeft>
			<WindowRight></WindowRight>
			<WindowTop></WindowTop>
			<WindowBottom></WindowBottom>

Any chance this could be fixed?

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July 27, 2010 - 11:13am
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Workaround

Try this:
Exit Infrarecorder.
Browse to App\InfraRecorder, cut your settings.xml and paste into Data\settings (if there's one already there, replace it with the one from App\InfraRecorder.
Now restart Infrarecorder, and it will create a well-formed settings.xml in App\InfraRecorder, and it will now remember your settings.

Hopefully this can be fixed for the next release, but at least this works.

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July 27, 2010 - 11:19am
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Reset

Did you try reinstalling and resetting your settings? 0.50 is a bit of a buggy release, unfortunately. I stopped using it (the local release I mean) due to the desktop icons being hidden bug. Moving a file isn't corrupting it. And we do a simple replace on the strings in it, we don't work directly with the XML itself.

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July 27, 2010 - 12:24pm
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This happened from a completely clean install, so I doubt reinstalling will help. I also don't remember Revision 2 having the issue. Like I said, the XML I posted above was the result after the file was moved to the app folder (as in, that was the XML file in its entirety).

I'm thinking there might be a regression in the string replacement code between Rev 2 and 3, but I couldn't find anything when I glanced at the source. I'll look again later if you don't find it in the meantime.

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July 27, 2010 - 1:22pm
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Rev 3 Desktop

I think all rev 3 added was the partial fix for InfraRecorder's desktop icon hiding bug.

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July 28, 2010 - 1:27am
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Hm...

Oh well, I guess I'll take another look at the launcher source in the morning. Just out of curiosity, would it be feasible to just port the IRP launcher to PAL? I know PAL has built-in string replacement and such...

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July 27, 2010 - 1:32pm
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Did my workaround work for

Did my workaround work for you?

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July 28, 2010 - 1:22am
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What, the above workaround? Um, after exiting InfraRecorder, the settings.xml is moved out of the app folder back to Data\settings by the launcher. Therefore once I've exited it there's nothing to move...

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July 28, 2010 - 7:37am
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Workaround, revisited.

My logic is that if you delete the settings.xml, the app will re-create it.
On my first attempt at a workaround, I may have been mistaken about closing InfraRecorder first, so I tried it again with a clean install.
Immediately after install, there is no settings.xml.
Once you start the app, it creates the malformed xml, and then upon exiting, it moves it to Data/Settings.
So I started up Infrarecorder and deleted BOTH copies, then while IR is still open, I changed the settings (like disabling the smoke effect).
Then I closed IR, and checked the file in Data/Settings. It was well-formed.
Starting up IR again, the file is moved back to the App/Infrarecorder folder, but there it's screwed up again!
I think IR is making a new file faster than the launcher can move the old one.

So I found that this works:
Start IR.
Delete both copies of settings.xml.
Change a setting.
Close IR.
Check the settings.xml in Data/Settings, it should be well-formed.
Copy this to App/Infrarecorder so that the good file exists in both locations.
Now you should be able to save settings.

I hope this works.

EDIT I think I know what's going on. If there is no file in App/Infrarecorder, it makes a default. PA Launcher moves this file upon close. IR is faster making a new one than the launcher is at moving the old one. But if the file exists, IR doesn't make a new one and the launcher does its job right.

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July 29, 2010 - 9:11am
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More testing

Did some more testing, there's indeed a regression between Rev 2 and Rev 3. Rev 2 saves settings just fine, Rev 3 loses them at every launch. Now here's the odd thing: I compared the two launchers in WinMerge, and indeed nothing was changed in the config rewriting code. I'm stumped. Did any plugins change (even if just a version bump) between the two revisions? Perhaps a regression in the Unicode-to-ANSI function or the config plugin...

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July 31, 2010 - 7:57am
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I've been working on fixing

I've been working on fixing this the last few days, did a re-write of the xml-file handling, and re-compiled it with unicode Nsis.

I'm sending it John as well, but just to make sure it works fine for everybody, I thought to put it out here!

So, for anyone who wants to test this: InfraRecorderPortable 0.50 Developement test 1.paf.exe
MD5: bdd7031088eb8928c306ce344d0f580d

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July 31, 2010 - 8:23am
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Tested language switching and saving of settings

Hi,
i just tested IRp0.5DT1 on WinXP Sp3 German. Here are my results:

  • language switching works properly when launching from the platform
  • settings are properly stored, settings.xml does not seem to be corrupted and the encoding matches
  • when launching IRp without the platform, its language defaults to english. changing it manually did not work on the first try, but on the second. this might be unrelated, i was unable to reproduce this behaviour!
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August 1, 2010 - 12:51pm
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Works great

Tested last night and this morning, and it works great. Settings are properly remembered between sessions now. No other issues that I could see. Smile

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