11626 Specifying location of BCSessions.xml and BCPreferences.xml

[chrisjj]

Is there by any chance some undocuemnted was of doing this e.g. a command-line switch?

[Aaron]

No. But BC3 does have an option to point at a Shared BCSessions.xml under the Tools menu -> Options, General section.

[chrisjj]

I guess I could write an .exe wrapper to copy a CL parameter to that variable... :)

Could you please file the requested feature as a wish? Thanks.

[Craig]

We don't have a way to doing in on the command line, but you can override the locations in the registry. If HKEY_CURRENT_USER or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE has a string at "\Software\Scooter Software\Beyond Compare 3\SettingsPath" it will use that directory instead of %AppData%\Scooter Software\Beyond Compare 3. It will use that for everything (sessions, prefs, state, registration key).

In any case, I think supporting it on the command line is a reasonable feature request, since you gave a good example of where it would be useful.

[chrisjj]

> We don't have a way to doing in on the command line, but you can override the locations in the registry.

Thanks but No Way would that be allowed in the typical prohect control situation.

> In any case, I think supporting it on the command line is a reasonable feature
> request, since you gave a good example of where it would be useful.

Thanks. But I'm somewhat mystified since there are surely users making far more advanced applicatinos that IU would would have needed this already. Or is all project-embedded BCing done by script??

[Craig]

Thanks. But I'm somewhat mystified since there are surely users making far more advanced applicatinos that IU would would have needed this already. Or is all project-embedded BCing done by script??

No idea. All I can says is that this is the first request for this particular functionality that I'm aware of.

[chrisjj]

Fair enough. Are there other users here who have needed this, and perhaps found an alternative solution?