[FTE]Saving custom cfg error

[toneddu2000]

Hi guys. FTE doesnt' allow to save custom cfg with the command

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cfg_save foo

It says:

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Couldn't write config c:\blah\mygame\data/configs/foo.cfg (if disablehomedir is set to 1 in default.fmf manifest file) or Couldn't write config c:\Users\blah\Documents/Mygames/FTE Quake/data/configs/foo.cfg if disablehomedir is set to 0

Instead, if I create by myself the foo.cfg in the configs folder and I read it via

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localcmd("cfg_load foo\n");

and then

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float myval= cvar("my_cfg_val");

the value is retrieved!
Is it a bug or did I miss a step?

Any help will be appreciated and thanked as always!

[Max_Salivan]

cfg_save_all "If 1, cfg_save ALWAYS saves all cvars. If 0, cfg_save only ever saves archived cvars. If empty, cfg_save saves all cvars only when an explicit filename was given (ie: when not used internally via quit menu options)."

[toneddu2000]

thanks Max_Salivan , but cfg_save_all is set to "", so, technically, it should work. Plus, if I set cfg_save_name to foo for example, and I query cfg_save_name, it says foo, but when I issue cfg_save command, it saves all the cvars to fte.cfg!
Is it also possible to save only specified cvars to a .cfg file?

[Dr. Shadowborg]

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Couldn't write config c:\blah\mygame\data/configs/foo.cfg (if disablehomedir is set to 1 in default.fmf manifest file) or Couldn't write config c:\Users\blah\Documents/Mygames/FTE Quake/data/configs/foo.cfg if disablehomedir is set to 0

O_o

Is it supposed to be mixing the back and forward slashes like that in the paths?

[toneddu2000]

O_o

Is it supposed to be mixing the back and forward slashes like that in the paths?

yeah, FTE does it (at least on Windows)

[Spike]

make sure the directory it says actually exists.

FTE internally uses forward slashes everywhere, because they work everywhere (there's a few microsoft-specific exceptions to that, but they don't apply to standard C).
the backslashes can arise from using microsoft functions to query working directories etc. There's also a few mods that explicitly use backslashes, so the engine has to tolerate them regardless.

[toneddu2000]

make sure the directory it says actually exists.

Thanks Spike, but it totally exists. Infact, if I try to read via localcmd("cfg_load foo\n"); the foo.cfg in configs/ folder is read perfectly. And, even if folder doesn't exist, when command is issued, fte DOES create folder but does not create .cfg file