Finalized 'basedir' and 'baseinappdir' in Windows.

- This still needs some testing and doc updates, but it seems to be
working great
- Hopefully people will now stop asking for this feature

src/emucore/OSystem.cxx

@@ -179,12 +179,12 @@ void OSystem::loadConfig(const Settings::Options& options)
   FilesystemNode save(myDefaultSaveDir);
   if(!save.isDirectory())
     save.makeDir();
-  myDefaultSaveDir = node.getPath();
+  myDefaultSaveDir = save.getShortPath();
 
   FilesystemNode load(myDefaultLoadDir);
   if(!load.isDirectory())
     load.makeDir();
-  myDefaultLoadDir = node.getPath();
+  myDefaultLoadDir = load.getShortPath();
 
   logMessage("Loading config options ...", 2);
   mySettings->load(configFile(), options);

src/windows/HomeFinder.hxx

@@ -30,19 +30,6 @@ class HomeFinder
     HomeFinder() = default;
     ~HomeFinder() = default;
 
-    // Return the 'HOME/User' folder, or an empty string if the folder couldn't be determined.
-    const string& getHomePath() const
-    {
-      if(ourHomePath == "")
-      {
-        char folder_path[MAX_PATH];
-        HRESULT const result = SHGetFolderPathA(NULL, CSIDL_PROFILE | CSIDL_FLAG_CREATE,
-          NULL, 0, folder_path);
-        ourHomePath = (result == S_OK) ? folder_path : EmptyString;
-      }
-      return ourHomePath;
-    }
-
     // Return the 'APPDATA' folder, or an empty string if the folder couldn't be determined.
     const string& getAppDataPath() const
     {
@@ -56,6 +43,19 @@ class HomeFinder
       return ourAppDataPath;
     }
 
+    // Return the 'Desktop' folder, or an empty string if the folder couldn't be determined.
+    const string& getDesktopPath() const
+    {
+      if(ourDesktopPath == "")
+      {
+        char folder_path[MAX_PATH];
+        HRESULT const result = SHGetFolderPathA(NULL, CSIDL_DESKTOPDIRECTORY | CSIDL_FLAG_CREATE,
+          NULL, 0, folder_path);
+        ourDesktopPath = (result == S_OK) ? folder_path : EmptyString;
+      }
+      return ourDesktopPath;
+    }
+
     // Return the 'My Documents' folder, or an empty string if the folder couldn't be determined.
     const string& getDocumentsPath() const
     {
@@ -69,8 +69,21 @@ class HomeFinder
       return ourDocumentsPath;
     }
 
+    // Return the 'HOME/User' folder, or an empty string if the folder couldn't be determined.
+    const string& getHomePath() const
+    {
+      if(ourHomePath == "")
+      {
+        char folder_path[MAX_PATH];
+        HRESULT const result = SHGetFolderPathA(NULL, CSIDL_PROFILE | CSIDL_FLAG_CREATE,
+          NULL, 0, folder_path);
+        ourHomePath = (result == S_OK) ? folder_path : EmptyString;
+      }
+      return ourHomePath;
+    }
+
   private:
-    static string ourHomePath, ourAppDataPath, ourDocumentsPath, ourDesktopPath;
+    static string ourHomePath, ourAppDataPath, ourDesktopPath, ourDocumentsPath;
 
     // Following constructors and assignment operators not supported
     HomeFinder(const HomeFinder&) = delete;

src/windows/OSystemWINDOWS.cxx

@@ -35,31 +35,21 @@ void OSystemWINDOWS::getBaseDirAndConfig(string& basedir, string& cfgfile,
       basedir += '\\';
     basedir += "Stella\\";
   }
-  savedir = loaddir = "~/"; // FIXME - change this to 'Desktop'
+  FilesystemNode defaultLoadSaveDir(homefinder.getDesktopPath());
+  savedir = loaddir = defaultLoadSaveDir.getShortPath();
 
   // Check to see if basedir overrides are active
   if(useappdir)
-    cout << "ERROR: base dir in app folder not supported" << endl;
-  else if(usedir != "")
   {
-    basedir = FilesystemNode(usedir).getPath();
+    char filename[MAX_PATH];
-    savedir = loaddir = basedir;
+    GetModuleFileNameA(NULL, filename, sizeof(filename));
+    FilesystemNode appdir(filename);
+    appdir = appdir.getParent();
+    if(appdir.isDirectory())
+      savedir = loaddir = basedir = appdir.getPath();
   }
+  else if(usedir != "")
+    savedir = loaddir = basedir = FilesystemNode(usedir).getPath();
 
   cfgfile = basedir + "stella.ini";
 }
-#if 0
-// - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-string OSystemWINDOWS::defaultSaveDir() const
-{
-  HomeFinder homefinder;
-  FilesystemNode documents(homefinder.getDocumentsPath());
-  return documents.isDirectory() ? documents.getShortPath() + "\\Stella\\" : "~\\";
-}
-
-// - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-string OSystemWINDOWS::defaultLoadDir() const
-{
-  return defaultSaveDir();
-}
-#endif