Mu: Better compatibility for restricted environments in schools

[rpiuser]

Would there be any possibility of setting a default save / load path under a windows environment ? Currently C: is restricted and My Documents is redirected using GPO. When loading a "This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer" message is displayed (Due to C: being restricted) clicking okay takes you to "My Documents" The same behaviour happens with save. Ideally pointing to the users home folder (e.g H:\Mu) would be a lot cleaner and a much better experience / less confusing for the students using it.

[ZanderBrown]

Take a look at #126 & #86

[rpiuser]

Thank you, I've read through the threads and can't seem to determine if this has been resolved. I'm assuming I need the settings.json and I need to set a path in there, however I'm unsure of the format of the path :- "paths": ["path/foo.py" so would I use "paths": ["path/H:/mu"] ?
After testing, it appears this doesn't set the environment up pointing the user to their home drives, it appears to be just a save history ?

[ZanderBrown]

Ah yes seems that didn't happen. I'm assuming your using the exe?

[rpiuser]

Using this build mu-2016-10-23_16_42_53.exe on windows

[ZanderBrown]

Okay. The feature is being worked on in #179 hopefully it should make it into master over the next week to be included in the next release

[rpiuser]

Thank you, much appreciated

[ZanderBrown]

179 has been merged. Does it resolve your issue?

[carlosperate]

As a general note to remind us before we close this issue: We really need to add a page about the settings file to the documentation so that this feature can be discovered.

[rpiuser]

Using mu-0.9.13.win works great thank you, however if you specify a wrong drive letter or the drive doesn't exist in settings.json mu exits with a run returned -1

[ZanderBrown]

ah makes sense. I will put a check in asap

[rpiuser]

Other than that, it's working great - kids are merrily coding away using it :)

[ntoll]

Closing since fixed.