From 463a543eb63398773c1967e541160a1cde99e01e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marcel Houweling <mhwlng@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2022 09:50:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add JournalPath to appsettings.config

---
 Elite/History.cs         | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 Elite/appsettings.config |  3 ++-
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Elite/History.cs b/Elite/History.cs
index 3b825a0..85c583e 100644
--- a/Elite/History.cs
+++ b/Elite/History.cs
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Collections.Specialized;
+using System.Configuration;
 using System.Drawing;
 using System.Globalization;
 using System.IO;
@@ -84,6 +86,11 @@ public static extern int SHGetKnownFolderPath([MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStruct)
                 IntPtr hToken, out IntPtr ppszPath);
         }
 
+        private static string GetExePath()
+        {
+            var strExeFilePath = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location;
+            return Path.GetDirectoryName(strExeFilePath);
+        }
 
         /// <summary>
         /// The standard Directory of the Player Journal files (C:\Users\%username%\Saved Games\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous).
@@ -92,6 +99,18 @@ private static DirectoryInfo StandardDirectory
         {
             get
             {
+                var exePath = GetExePath();
+
+                if (File.Exists(Path.Combine(exePath, "appSettings.config")) &&
+                    ConfigurationManager.GetSection("appSettings") is NameValueCollection appSection)
+                {
+                    var journalPath = appSection["JournalPath"];
+                    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(journalPath))
+                    {
+                        return new DirectoryInfo(journalPath);
+                    }
+                }
+
                 //#if DEBUG
                 //return new DirectoryInfo(@"C:\Users\Marcel\Desktop\Elite Dangerous");
                 //#endif
diff --git a/Elite/appsettings.config b/Elite/appsettings.config
index d3a1513..d80a559 100644
--- a/Elite/appsettings.config
+++ b/Elite/appsettings.config
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
 <appSettings>
   <add key="EnableWindowsFormsHighDpiAutoResizing" value="false" />
-  <add key="clickSound" value ="beep-3.wav" />
+  <add key="clickSound" value="beep-3.wav" />
+  <add key="JournalPath" value="" />
 </appSettings>
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