Enhanced self.appdir code to take care of both blank launch path as well as root launch path cases.

Author: PropGit

BlocklyPropClient.py

@@ -64,13 +64,15 @@ def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
         self.app_version = "0.0"
         self.connected = False
 
-        # Path to where application was launched
+        # Find the path from which application was launched
         # realpath expands to full path if __file__ or sys.argv[0] contains just a filename
 	self.appdir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
-        if self.appdir == "":
+        if self.appdir == "" or self.appdir == "/":
+	    # launch path is blank; try extracting from argv
             self.appdir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(sys.argv[0]))
+
 	self.logger.info('Logging is enabled')
-	self.logger.info('Application launched from %s', self.appdir)
+	self.logger.info('BlocklyPropClient.py: Application launched from %s', self.appdir)
 
         # initialize config variables
         self.ip_address = tk.StringVar()

BlocklyServer.py

@@ -27,11 +27,15 @@ def __init__(self, version, queue):
 
         self.version = version
         self.queue = queue
+
+        # Find the path from which application was launched
         # realpath expands to full path if __file__ or sys.argv[0] contains just a filename
 	self.appdir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
-        if self.appdir == "":
+        if self.appdir == "" or self.appdir == "/":
+	    # launch path is blank; try extracting from argv
             self.appdir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(sys.argv[0]))
-        self.logger.debug("Application started from: %s", self.appdir)
+
+        self.logger.debug("BlocklyServer.py: Application started from: %s", self.appdir)
 
         queue.put((10, 'INFO', 'Server started'))
 

PropellerLoad.py

@@ -18,12 +18,13 @@ def __init__(self):
         self.logger = logging.getLogger('blockly.loader')
         self.logger.info('Creating loader logger.')
 
-        # Find the path to the application launch directory
+        # Find the path from which application was launched
         # realpath expands to full path if __file__ or sys.argv[0] contains just a filename
 	self.appdir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
-        if self.appdir == "":
+        if self.appdir == "" or self.appdir == "/":
+	    # launch path is blank; try extracting from argv
             self.appdir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(sys.argv[0]))
-        self.logger.debug("Application running from: %s", self.appdir)
+        self.logger.debug("PropellerLoad.py: Application running from: %s", self.appdir)
 
         self.propeller_load_executables = {
             "Windows":  "/propeller-tools/windows/propeller-load.exe",
@@ -72,9 +73,10 @@ def load(self, action, file_to_load, com_port):
 
         # Patch until we figure out why the __init__ is not getting called
 	if not self.appdir or self.appdir == '':
-	    # realpath expands to full path if __file__ or sys.argv[0] contains just a filename
+            # realpath expands to full path if __file__ or sys.argv[0] contains just a filename
 	    self.appdir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
-            if self.appdir == "":
+            if self.appdir == "" or self.appdir == "/":
+	        # launch path is blank; try extracting from argv
                 self.appdir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(sys.argv[0]))
 
         executable = self.appdir + self.propeller_load_executables[platform.system()]