[Sage] Sage custom CSS and portability

[Tim Gourley]

Yes, I am using a Windows Platform, and I'm using FirefoxPortable on a USB
thumb drive.

I tried something similar to what you suggested.  I created a batch file in
the root of my thumb partition, called firefox.bat.  It looks like this:

@echo off
set CURRENT_DRIVE=%CD:~0,2%
%CURRENT_DRIVE%\FirefoxPortable\FirefoxPortable.exe

The set command does a substring on the CD command to parse out the current
drive letter, and sets it in the variable CURRENT_DRIVE.  I then call the
FirefoxPortable executable from that drive and the path.

I then set Sage to use the following for the path to the custom css:

%CURRENT_DRIVE%\FirefoxPortable\Data\mozilla.css

That didn't work.  It doesn't look like Sage does environment variable
expansion.  I even tried putting the %CD:~0,2% variable in there instead but
it didn't work.

Thanks for the suggestions so far.

On 9/4/06, too_much green_tea <toomuchgreentea at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Never mind ... I think there may be a problem with the scope of the set
> variable.
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> Sent: Monday, September 4, 2006 10:56:16 AM
> Subject: Re: [Sage] Sage custom CSS and portability
>
> I'm assuming you're on MS platform (you used "\" in path)?
>
> I haven't used any USB drives yet, so what I can suggest is rather limited
> ... but I guess it is possible to create a script that automatically store
> the location of the inserted drive in a system variable. Try the following
> and see if it works for you.
>
> - create a file with a unique name at the root of the USB drive (e.g. "
> dijagakejfeijfwiejfi.txt")
> - create a script that searches C:\ through Z:\ for that filename
>     @echo off
>      if exist c:\dijagakejfeijfwiejfi.txt set myUSBlocation=C:
>      if exist d:\dijagakejfeijfwiejfi.txt set myUSBlocation=D:
>      ...
>      if exist z:\dijagakejfeijfwiejfi.txt set myUSBlocation=Z:
> - execute the script everytime you insert the drive
>
> You should then be able to use "%myUSBlocation%" in your path.
>
> Or you can simply set the variable "myUSBlocation" manually before running
> Firefox ... whichever way works best for you. :-)
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Tim Gourley
> To: sage at mozdev.org
> Sent: Friday, September 1, 2006 10:15:30 AM
> Subject: [Sage] Sage custom CSS and portability
>
> Hello,
>
> I've been using Sage for a while now and it is a great application.  The
> only problem I've had with it is that when I try to use Sage with Firefox
> Portable 1.5 from my USB thumb drive and I specify a custom style sheet,
> it puts the full path, including the drive letter.  Since I use this on a
> couple different computers I cannot rely on the drive letters being the
> same.
>
> I've tried various combinations of paths such as "stylesheet.css",
> "..\stylesheet.css", and so on to get it to work, but to no avail.  Does
> anyone have any thoughts or ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
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