screenshot write permission fail (Vista/7)

[AlexK]

Ctrl-S for screenshot doesn't work. 0.10.4 Windsows 7 Ultimate x64 unless you change the directory to some generic place (instead of the default user's desktop). Perhaps UAC permissions problem?

[Matthew Gates (matthew-porpoisehead)]

Yes, it's permissions. Win Vista and later set the desktop so apps can't save things there without doing /something/... not sure what apart from running as admin which we probably don't want to do.

[Matthew Gates (matthew-porpoisehead)]

Possible solution: set screenshot dir to My Documents or something for vista and 7. It's annoying though - yet another conditional on the windows version.

Maybe we could have a "open screenshot folder" button from the config dialog where the screenshot directory is set which opens explorer on windows, finder on osx and [something, maybe from a freedesktop standard or using mime types] on *nix.

[AlexK (4-noone)]

It would be nice to have at least an error message for such a case.

[Matthew Gates (matthew-porpoisehead)]

You have one in the log. A notification of some kind would be a good idea.

On 22 April 2010 01:35, AlexK <email address hidden> wrote:
> It would be nice to have at least an error message for such a case.
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> Ctrl-S for screenshot doesn't work
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/568086
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[Alejandro (aalejo87)]

I have the same problem as AlexK and I finally found a solution on Windows 7 64Bit. My documents, desktop and others are denied as not writeable but I could save a .png in a folder under C:/ ... Just create a folder in a local disk like C: name it like whatever you want, then go to: "C:\Users\YOURUSER\AppData\Roaming\Stellarium and find -> /config.ini" then look for the following lines:

[main]
invert_screenshots_colors = false
restore_defaults = false
screenshot_dir = C:\FOLDERNAME
version = 0.10.5

Replace FOLDERNAME with the folder you just created.
It worked for me!!

Sorry for my bad english, hope it works. No need to run as admin and etc...

[Sergey (sergeyvist)]

We can add a manifest to our pe file on windows so it it will require administrator privileges on start.
Is it a good solution ?

[Sergey (sergeyvist)]

Here is a patch.
But it may need some additional actions to do.
I was using VS2009 to build the stellarium so something can be wrong on other dev envirounment.

Put files
mt.exe and stellarium.exe.manifest into util folder

[Sergey (sergeyvist)]

manifest file
put into /util/

[Sergey (sergeyvist)]

mt.exe - tool to insert a manifest file
put into /util/ folder

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

Patch not work without MSVS.

[Sergey (sergeyvist)]

Please describe the problem.
Did mt.exe stared ?
If yes than the executable location can be differ from the specified.

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

I'm change resource_id and now this patch work.

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

Diff: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~stellarium/stellarium/trunk/revision/5312

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

manifest is solve this issue but ask user for grant permissions on every run. I'm disable manifest and changed for default folder for screenshots for Windows as My Pictures folder.

Diffs: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~stellarium/stellarium/trunk/revision/5313 and http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~stellarium/stellarium/trunk/revision/5314