How do you make a custom version with independent configuration settings?

[chrisdukes]

I made a custom version of the Comic Vine Scraper by modifying the original version and removing the Welcome Form from the scrapeengine.py file. That's worked great for me, but the problem if that I also have the Original Version of the plugin installed. I assumed they would have independent configurations, but if I change the settings for my Custom Version then Original Version's settings change also. I thought changing the names of the configform.py and configuration.py files along with their references would work, but it's didn't.

Thanks for any help!

[cbanack]

The location of the settings file and other files are all kept resources.py.

If you're trying to make a second version of Comic Vine Scraper, I'd recommend changing the Profile dir (lines 95 to 99) to something other than r"\Comic Vine Scraper". Maybe r"\Comic Vine Scarper Plus" or something. Then all the various settings and stuff will be stored there instead of shared between both versions of the scraper.

While you're at it, things will work smoother if you rename the entire module, which will make ComicRack see the the original scraper and your new scraper as two totally different plugins. To do that, change the Name (and probably author, version, etc) in the Package.ini file.

Of course, then you'll want to rebuild the your own new installer package, but then you need to install IronPython on your system path, as well as Java and Ant to run the build script (build.xml). That requires more specialized knowledge.

[chrisdukes]

Thanks for the help! It worked out great.