PgcEdit 0.6.3.1 Burn DVD Setup

[aphid]

I recently installed PgcEdit 0.6.3.1 and it's a great program. However, I have one problem. When I click the Burn DVD/Create ISO Image button (or open it from the File menu), I always get the PgcEdit: Burn DVD - Setup dialog. I keep entering the correct paths to the various programs, set the burner drive letter, and click Save, but the settings only persist during the current session. If I open PgcEdit again, the settings have all reverted to the defaults and I have to enter them all over. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong.

Thanks in advance.

[r0lZ]

Maybe it's because you don't have write permissions on the PgcEdit setup folder.
This folder is (normally) "C:\Documents and Settings\<your login name>\Application Data\PgcEdit\".
The burn setups are saved in burn.cfg. Could you see this file? If it is present, open it with any text editor such as notepad, and look if the setups are correct.

And does PgcEdit remember the general settings (the one you change in the Options menu, and, among others, the main window position and size, the last opened folder, etc...)?

(Note that "Application Data" is normally an hidden folder, for an obscure reason that only Bill Gates understands! You may have to change a setup in Control Panel -> Folder Options to see it.)

[aphid]

Thanks for the reply, but it wasn't a write privilege problem. Your suugestions got me to looking more closely at what was happening. I did not have DAEMON Tools installed and was ignoring the default file location entry for that program. PgcEdit will not create burn.cfg nor save any information if there is an invalid path in any of the program location boxes. When I deleted everything from the DAEMON Tools location box, the Save button worked and created the burn.cfg file within my profile. I then uninstalled everything and deleted the PGcEdit folder in my profile. I installed DAEMON Tools and then ran PgcEdit (new) again. I was then able to open the Burn DVD Setup and enter all the correct paths, including to DAEMON Tools, and everything is fine.

Sorry for this posting as it was my lack of understanding of how PgcEdit works.

[r0lZ]

Don't be sorry! There is obviously a little bug here. Will fix it. Thanks for the report.

[r0lZ]

Hum, I can't reproduce the problem! When there is an invalid path in the burn setup dialog and I click save, the setups are correctly saved. Furthermore, I can't locate anything in my code that could explain this kind of problem. Are you sure that your description is right?

[aphid]

I retested this behavior by doing the following:

Deleted burn.cfg from the PgcEdit folder in my profile.

Launched PgcEdit and loaded a DVD project.

Clicked the "Burn DVD or create Iso image" button.
Two dialog boxes opened with "PgcEdit: Burn DVD - Setup" on top
The default locations were:
Path to mkisofs.exe: C:\Program Files\ImgTool Classic\mkisofs.exe
Path to ImgBurn: C:\Program Files\ImgBurn\ImgBurn.exe
Path to daemon.exe: C:\Program Files\D-Tools\daemon.exe
DVD burner drive letter: blank
Changed the locations to:
Path to mkisofs.exe: C:\Program Files\Video\ImgTool Classic\mkisofs.exe
Path to ImgBurn: C:\Program Files\Video\ImgBurn\ImgBurn.exe
Path to daemon.exe: C:\Program Files\D-Tools\daemon.exe
Left unchanged, but Daemon Tools is not installed
DVD burner drive letter: H
Clicked the Save button - nothing happened, dialog remained, no burn.cfg created
Deleted "C:\Program Files\D-Tools\daemon.exe" from the Path to daemon.exe
Then changed the burner drive letter to H, i.e., the cursor was not in the daemon.exe box
Clicked the Save button - nothing happened, dialog remained, no burn.cfg created.
Returned focus to the empty daemon.exe box (blinking cursor)
Clicked the Save button, dialog dissappeared and burn.cfg created.

Everything now works great and the burn.cfg file contains the accurate paths as entered through PgcEdit and, of course, without an entry for the daemon.exe path. This seems a trivial issue and may reflect some quirk in my particular system, but I cannot determine what it might be. Again, if I install Daemon Tools and point Pgcedit to the correct location of daemon.exe, everthing works fine. I just do not want the overhead of the virtual DVD drive and Daemon Tools apparently does not have an on demand feature.

[r0lZ]

OK, I've followed exactly your procedure, and I have had the same problem.

It's a Tcl/Tk bug! Sometimes, when you click on a button, the button seems to work, but the command associated with it is not carried on. You have to reset the focus to another element before it works again. My method is to click on the title bar of the window. Seems that, in the case of the burn setup dialog, it is also possible to click in the daemon.exe box, as you did.
Anyway, the problem is not related to the contents of the daemon tools path, but only to the way the mouse clicks are handled by Windows and Tcl/Tk.

I know this problem. It is referenced on my homepage. Unfortunately, I cannot fix it. But thanks to you, I know now that it is probably related to the dropdown menu buttons.

[aphid]

You're the Man! Issue solved with an easy workaround. PgcEdit is a fantasitc program and I very much appreciate your efforts. The nicely accurate layer break determination has been especially helpful.