Is it possible to use JBidwatcher with different User Profiles (Windows XP)?

How can I define different places to save JBidWatch.cfg and the auctions save files for each user?

snixx!

No ideas?

snixx!

Greetings,

It should do this automatically by default. It uses your home directory

C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\.jbidwatcher

to store the configurations, cached auctions, and saved auction lists.

If it’s not doing this, then there’s something wrong… Can you tell me where it’s storing the configuration files, and auctions.xml file? I’m not terribly familiar with Windows XP, but I know that under Windows 2000 it does the right thing…

Sorry about the delay in getting back to you. For some reason it didn’t send your original message to my email (which is how I get notified usually that people are posting here).

— Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!

JBidWatcher stores the configuration files in “D:\Anwendungsdaten\Desktop\.jbidwatcher”. These files will be used by both WinXP-Users :-(

The path “C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\{username}” doesn’t contain a folder named “.jbidwatcher”.

Greetings,
Okay, that’s pretty weird… JBidwatcher uses a Java variable ‘user.home’. If that’s pointing to your ‘Application Data/Desktop’ directory, then that’s where it’s going to store it. Ick…

In theory, if you have a desktop shortcut to launch JBidwatcher, you can set it like this for user1:

java -Duser.home=“C:\Dukumente und Einstellungen\{user1}” -jar JBidWatch-0.9.jar

and another for user2:

java -Duser.home=“C:\Dukumente und Einstellungen\{user2}” -jar JBidWatch-0.9.jar

You might need to provide a whole path to the java executable in that case.

It’s certainly possible that I could try to determine the current user, and create a specialized directory for that user’s auctions.xml file and display file. It’s an interesting and relatively straightforward feature, but probably one that would be post-1.0, unless someone else wants to implement it.

— Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!

It works. Thank you.