Arma Class

[overfl0]

Originally reported by: The Sighter (Bitbucket: sighter, GitHub: sighter)

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Create a class with the following specs:

package: arma

module : arma

Classname: Arma

Methods

• *+ get_user_path() * this should return the place to the path where mods can be installed in the user folder
• *+ get_installation_path() * this should return the folder there arma is installed and mods can be installed to (i.e. c:/program files/steam/commonapps/arma/)
• + get_executable_path() return path to the arma executable
• + run_game(modlist, profile) run the game in a separate process with all mods in modlist applied as command line parameters. Use possibility of actually building a text file here and then load arguments form there. The modlist parameter contains a list of real mod-class-instances. Profile name should also be applied.

Notes

All information should be retrieved from the registry

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/tacbf_launcher/tacbf_launcher/issue/4

[overfl0]

Original comment by overfl0 (Bitbucket: overfl0, GitHub: overfl0):

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Why use get_user_path actually? I'm not sure why would we use that directory over arma_installation_path dir.
Besides, I've got a separate drive for arma and would not want to use my user folder which resides on a totally different drive (and is tight on space).

[overfl0]

Original comment by overfl0 (Bitbucket: overfl0, GitHub: overfl0):

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One more thing: what do you mean by "package: arma"?
Does it mean the file has to go to an "arma" directory?

[overfl0]

Original comment by The Sighter (Bitbucket: sighter, GitHub: sighter):

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Yes right packages map to directories.
Regarding to the user path. I was thinking about installing the mods in the userspace so the launcher don't need admin rights. Maybe we should at least make it configurable. What do you think about that?

[overfl0]

Original comment by overfl0 (Bitbucket: overfl0, GitHub: overfl0):

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Ok, I'll add an accessor and a mutator (@staticmethod) for a custom_path and make the class a Singleton. We don't want it to be instanced manually, do we?

[overfl0]

Original comment by overfl0 (Bitbucket: overfl0, GitHub: overfl0):

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Implemented. Some tests are missing but other tests were performed manually.