Easy question about PCGEdit 7.4

[DVD-RBNewbie]

This should be easy (at least I *think* it should) but I couldn't find an answer.

When I click "Open" in PCGEdit, can I set a custom location for it to "Open" into rather that the default of C:\? My normal working area for DVD's is elsewhere and I find myself constantly having to navigate back to it each time I open PCGEdit.

Thanks for any help.

[r0lZ]

Normally, PgcEdit remembers the last location you have used.
If it doesn't work, maybe the config file cannot be saved. Could you verify that the file C:\Documents and Settings\<your login name>\Application Data\PgcEdit\PgcEdit.cfg exists?
If it exists, could you post the contents of this file here?

Also, do you use an english version of Windows?

Note that Application Data is an hidden folder. You might have to change the "Show hidden files and folders" option in the Windows Folder Options dialog.

[DVD-RBNewbie]

It does save the last location used if you have "save settings on exit" checked, which I did not.

I normally leave that unchecked simply so I don't accidentally change something I didn't mean to and then have it be saved on exit. It just never occured to me that the last location used was one of the settings that was saved. Of course it seems obvious to me now :-)

Anyway, thanks for the fast reply & the help r0lZ.

[r0lZ]

You can even save a fixed default path for the file browser simply by loading a DVD and using the "Save settings now" function.

[BigCondor]

My son like to save different ISOs on a DVD to play computer games. Sometimes after I used PgcEdit to browse a DVD on the virtual drive PgcEdit remembered the path and then next time I open PgcEdit it heads for the virtual drive and unfortunately it gets hang up with the my son's game. There were ocassions where I have to hit reset to solve the problem. So is there any way to tell the PgcEdit to stop searching after sometime? Thanks!

[r0lZ]

Hum, seems there is a bug here, but I'm not sure it is in PgcEdit...

I'll try to find a workaround for this problem, but I need some more info.
If I understand well, you use PgcEdit to open a DVD-Video directly from a mounted image. Then, you replace the image with a DVD-ROM image, and the next time PgcEdit starts, it searches the virtual drive for a DVD-Video, and hangs. Right?
Are you sure the virtual drive is mounted and fed with a DVD-ROM ISO? What's the behaviour of PgcEdit exactly? Does it hangs immediately when it is launched, or do you request to open a DVD? Can you see the Open DVD dialog?
Also, try to toggle "Options -> User Interface -> Use file browser instead of folder browser for Open/Save folder operations?". Does it works better?

In the meantime, you should be able to force PgcEdit to forgot about the virtual drive by unmounting it, and launching PgcEdit.
If that doesn't work, you can edit the file "C:\Documents and Settings\<your user name>\Application Data\PgcEdit\pgcedit.cfg". Search for a line beginning with "set ::config(initialdir)" (w/o the quotes) and replace the path by {C:\}
Note that "Application Data" is normally an hidden folder. You might have to change the Windows Show Hidden Files and Folders option (in Control Panel -> Folder Options -> View).

[BigCondor]

Hi, thanks for your prompt reply, very much appreiciated.

Here's the situation, I mount an image on the hd and opens it with pgcedit. Then my son place a DVD with image on DVD rom to play. Hence the path of the virtual drive points to the DVD rom. After that I open a DVD on pgcedit so it search the DVD rom for the image.

The program doesn't actually hangs. When I start the program and open a DVD then it begins to search the virtual drive and hence reads the DVD in the DVD rom. I can see the Open DVD dialog and it keeps on looking without stopping(maybe it will eventually stop if I wait long enough), seemingly looking for the video_ts.ifo.
I have tried to change the pgcedit.cfg according to your suggestion and it seems pgcedit remembers the last open directory. Since my son is using that computer I will actually test this later.

[r0lZ]

I have tried to change the pgcedit.cfg according to your suggestion and it seems pgcedit remembers the last open directory. Since my son is using that computer I will actually test this later.Yes. To avoid your problem, you might want to disable Options -> Save Settings on Exit, and save the settings manually, after loading a DVD from a convenient location on your HDD. That path will be the default.

I'll try to reproduce the problem here...
Another question: which program do you use to mount the ISO?

[BigCondor]

OK, so I will have to disable Save Settings on Exit and use Save setting now when I feel good, is that what you suggest?

I use Daemon Tools to mount my images.

And one more thing, can you fix some use of cases on commands? Some commands is said to use upper case but it actually uses lower case, just like Ctrl+G but we have to use Ctrl+g for that.
And it would be more friendly if the program can accept upper case when we enter the language code such as "ZH" instead of "zh" only. Thanks!


Some I now use these settings:-

Disabled "Save Settings on Exit "
Enabled "Use file browser instead of folder browser for Open/Save folder operations"
"Save Settings now" to a fixed location

And it seems to workout fine, thanks!

[r0lZ]

OK, so I will have to disable Save Settings on Exit and use Save setting now when I feel good, is that what you suggest?
Yes.
I use Daemon Tools to mount my images.
Perfect!
And one more thing, can you fix some use of cases on commands? Some commands is said to use upper case but it actually uses lower case, just like Ctrl+G but we have to use Ctrl+g for that.
You mean that the labels in the menus are in upper case, but you don't need to press SHIFT to activate them. Right? I'll see if I can change that...
And it would be more friendly if the program can accept upper case when we enter the language code such as "ZH" instead of "zh" only. Thanks!
No. PgcEdit uses the standard codes ISO639 language codes. They are in lower case, and you have to enter them as they are.

Some I now use these settings:-

Disabled "Save Settings on Exit "
Enabled "Use file browser instead of folder browser for Open/Save folder operations"
"Save Settings now" to a fixed location

And it seems to workout fine, thanks!
:)

[BigCondor]

When you say Ctrl+G in the menu, it doesn't work if we use "G" instead of "g", so it is quite confessing when it is case sensitive and yet the instruction doesn't give us the correct value.

I don't mean to change the language codes. I only ask if you can do the flavour of changing the case for us if we use capitals. So that whenever it encounters "ZH" or "zh", it will give us the correct value and "zh" will be shown in the box.

[r0lZ]

Is it so hard to press CAPS-LOCK?

[BigCondor]

As I had said earlier, it would be more friendly though. I had in the past get stuck while entering a language code. I had my caps lock on without noticing and the program kept reject my input. It took me more than an hour to find the reason. Of course I know what is happening when I hear the beep sound now.

[r0lZ]

Oh yeah, I understand! I can easily display an error message in the status bar...

[BigCondor]

Thanks!