Windows permissions and bad practices...

[marcogaio]

Thanks for all your effort on this wonderful project!

I'm a sysadmin. I've installed on some Win10 64bit computer used by my Occupational Therapy, but found that program does not run (bump an error relative to the inability to write to 'log.txt') and cannot save profiles and profile settings.

All my users run as unprivileged user (only member of 'Users' group). Both can be easily solved with:

cacls "%ProgramFiles%\project_gameface\log.txt" /E /P BUILTIN\Users:C
cacls "%ProgramFiles%\project_gameface\configs" /E /T /P BUILTIN\Users:C

Anyway, it is considereb bad practice to save data (and logs) in %ProgramFiles%, better to save them on user's home.

Thanks.

[willwade]

@marcogaio you wont get far here.. Keep an eye on this https://github.com/acecentre/facecommander Im literally fixing the build process right now. We are using %appdata%Programs etc.

There is a problem with all this - you do need ui_access for most AT needs and Admin rights to act as a keyboard/mouse emulator - but still doable.

Give me a week ;)

[marcogaio]

Uh, oh... but it is not clear... Face Commander is a 'repackaging' of Project GameFace? Or development continue here?

Thanks.

[willwade]

Here's the facts

• Gameface isn't being rapidly developed.
• Forks are 'repackaged' versions - yes.
• GrimAssist and FaceCommander are being more actively developed. FaceCommader is really targeted to the Ace Centre's population (complex physical disabilities and largely to access technology for communication). GrimAssist is largely as a mouse alternative in the same vein as GameFace.

The main aspect of both these forks is that things like instaling and updates etc - are non existent in GameFace. We make the UI easier plus more (we have blink detection and accidental trigger timeouts etc)

[marcogaio]

OK, clear; here we are Associazione La Nostra Famiglia, a confessional (Catholic) association aimed toward disabled children; so seems that your tool fit perfecly on our need!

I'll wait next version and give it a try, thanks!!!