asl-charts/src/Program.cs

using System ;
using System.Windows.Forms ;
using System.IO ;
using System.Diagnostics ;

// --------------------------------------------------------------------

public static class Program
{
    public const string APP_NAME = "ASL Charts" ;

    private static string mBaseDir ;
    private static string mDataDir ;
    private static JsonConfig mDataConfig = null ;
    private static JsonConfig mDebugConfig = null ;
    private static MainForm mMainForm = null ;

    [STAThread]
    static void Main( string[] args )
    {
        // initialize
        mBaseDir = Application.StartupPath ;

        // locate the data directory
        mDataDir = System.IO.Path.Combine( mBaseDir , "data" ) ;
        if ( ! Directory.Exists( mDataDir ) ) {
            mDataDir = System.IO.Path.Combine( mBaseDir , "../data" ) ;
            if ( ! Directory.Exists( mDataDir ) )
                mDataDir = mBaseDir ;
        }

        try {

            // load the app config
            // NOTE: It would be nice to be able to load the app config from another location, but it seems
            // we need to create a new AppDomain to do this, and it doesn't work with Mono :-/
            mDataConfig = new JsonConfig( "data config", Path.Combine( mDataDir, "config.json" ) ) ;

            // load the debug config
            mDebugConfig = new JsonConfig( "debug config", Path.Combine( mBaseDir, "debug.json" ) ) ;

        } catch( Exception ex ) {
            showErrorMsg( "Initialization failed:\n\n" + ex.Message ) ;
            return ;
        }

        // run the application
        Application.EnableVisualStyles() ;
        Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault( false ) ;
        mMainForm = new MainForm() ;
        Application.Run( mMainForm ) ;
    }

    public static void showInfoMsg( string msg ) { MessageBox.Show(msg,APP_NAME,MessageBoxButtons.OK,MessageBoxIcon.Information) ; }
    public static void showWarningMsg( string msg ) { MessageBox.Show(msg,APP_NAME,MessageBoxButtons.OK,MessageBoxIcon.Warning) ; }
    public static void showErrorMsg( string msg ) { MessageBox.Show(msg,APP_NAME,MessageBoxButtons.OK,MessageBoxIcon.Error) ; }

    public static void logTraceMsg( string msg )
    {
        // log a trace message
        Trace.WriteLine( DateTime.Now.ToString("HH:mm:ss") + " | " + msg ) ;
    }

    public static JsonConfig dataConfig { get { return mDataConfig ; } }
    public static JsonConfig debugConfig { get { return mDebugConfig ; } }
    public static string dataDir { get { return mDataDir ; } }
}