Wrong path to TeXstudio

[dbitouze]

JabRef version 5.2 on Windows 10

• Mandatory: I have tested the latest development version from http://builds.jabref.org/main and the problem persists: in fact not actually relevant since I could try it on Linux, but not on Windows (see below).

Students of mine, who are using Windows 10 (I'm a Linux user) experienced a problem when they tried to push citations to TeXstudio: it was impossible until we change the path to TeXstudio from C:\Program Files (x86)\texstudio to its, nowadays, default location C:\Program Files\texstudio.

[Siedlerchr]

Thanks for the report. The code for the path detection lies here

jabref/src/main/java/org/jabref/gui/desktop/os/Windows.java

Lines 27 to 37 in bb011c9

	@Override
	public String detectProgramPath(String programName, String directoryName) {
	String progFiles = System.getenv("ProgramFiles(x86)");
	if (progFiles == null) {
	progFiles = System.getenv("ProgramFiles");
	}
	if ((directoryName != null) && !directoryName.isEmpty()) {
	return Path.of(progFiles, directoryName, programName + DEFAULT_EXECUTABLE_EXTENSION).toString();
	}
	return Path.of(progFiles, programName + DEFAULT_EXECUTABLE_EXTENSION).toString();
	}

The problem is that it doesn't check for the existence of the file/executable inside the Programs x86/Program Files and therefore incorrectly assumes it's located in the x86 folder.

[Gan-Cheng]

Hi, I think this problem is interesting and not so difficult, could I try to fix it?

[Siedlerchr]

@Gan-Cheng Sure, go ahead! Make sure to check out the contribution guide for getting started https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md

[Gan-Cheng]

Thanks. By the way, I wonder whether it is required to implement the function of searching program path, or just judging existence of target path in program files and program files(x86) is Okay.

[Siedlerchr]

Thanks to @Gan-Cheng this issue should now be resolved in the latest main version

We would like to ask you to use a development build from https://builds.jabref.org/main and report back if it works for you. Please remember to make a backup of your library before trying-out this version.

[dbitouze]

Thanks to @Gan-Cheng this issue should now be resolved in the latest main version

Many thanks to both of you.

We would like to ask you to use a development build from https://builds.jabref.org/main and report back if it works for you.

Unfortunately, I cannot test because I don't own any Windows machine. But I'll report troubles if students of mine have again such a trouble.