I've done some checking, the whole "AppData\Local\VirtualStore" thing is a Windows 'feature' it redirects file io in order to protect the program files location. IMHO this sucks 
I've designed LDCad to be portable, this totally contradicts the Windows approach (with it millions of separate folders like 'appData', 'my documents', 'users' (folders that seem to change with every windows version I might add). I thought I solved the problem with the setup by letting it change the folder permissions (it worked on vista).
These virtual redirects should be transparent, but I think it messes with the timestamps so LDCad decides to re-inventory on each start-up.
The best workaround for this whole thing is installing LDCad into a non 'system' location.
About the menu's. The main reason I choose the non standard menu's is the possibility to keep them open (pin down). In the future they will be more then just text items in some menu's. In such approach they aren't really menu's at all they're more like overlay tool panels. For example in a early version the compass was a 'menu'. But I decided to make it static later on.
The part bin content is made out of .pbg files located in the partBin folder, these represent the groups you can navigate through. there are many options associated with them, most can be learned by viewing the existing files. The search part bin group hasn't got many options currently but I might add extra 'base' filters in the 1.1 version. That version will be more 'unofficial' aware anyway.
I've designed LDCad to be portable, this totally contradicts the Windows approach (with it millions of separate folders like 'appData', 'my documents', 'users' (folders that seem to change with every windows version I might add). I thought I solved the problem with the setup by letting it change the folder permissions (it worked on vista).
These virtual redirects should be transparent, but I think it messes with the timestamps so LDCad decides to re-inventory on each start-up.
The best workaround for this whole thing is installing LDCad into a non 'system' location.
About the menu's. The main reason I choose the non standard menu's is the possibility to keep them open (pin down). In the future they will be more then just text items in some menu's. In such approach they aren't really menu's at all they're more like overlay tool panels. For example in a early version the compass was a 'menu'. But I decided to make it static later on.
The part bin content is made out of .pbg files located in the partBin folder, these represent the groups you can navigate through. there are many options associated with them, most can be learned by viewing the existing files. The search part bin group hasn't got many options currently but I might add extra 'base' filters in the 1.1 version. That version will be more 'unofficial' aware anyway.