Allow runing w/o Hearthstone installed about hearthstone-deck-tracker HOT 9 CLOSED

This is reasonable and I will probably add it. In the mean time you have two options I can think of:

1. you could create empty log.config and output_log.txt files where they normally belong. The tracker should run with that. But as you said, you can't export decks aside from moving your PlayerDecks.xml. Maybe having the tracker in e.g. Dropbox could work.

2. create decks on e.g. Hearthpwn and import them from there.

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Ad 1) Yea. I sorted it to work a bit differently -- I created a dummy Hearthstone.exe and pointed to it :)
As for the "export", I did exacly that: cloud sync :)

Ad 2) Ofc that is an valid workaround. I just found it strange that lots of functionality of the Tracker is unavailable only b/c of the dependancy to (missing) HS.

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Pointing to the exe serves only the purpose of getting the directory. I don't like the directory selection dialogs, that's all :). I could probably get the install directory from the registry actually. That would make the "offline" mode easy too.

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Sadly, HKEY_USERS[...]\Software\Blizzard Entertainment\Hearthstone doesn't contain the install path, and that is the only registry entry for Hearthstone/B.net launcher.

I have myself not managed to find the file where they store the install paths. Not in %appdata%, appdata/local, or the install dir. They must be hiding it.

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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Hearthstone 

seems to contain the nessecary information

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Alright! Done for the next update.

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Really interesting! I wonder how that did not show up in my serach. Remember, that location only exists in 64 bit OS's (Hearthstone is 32 bit program). Otherwise, you would not go through the wow6432node. A separate one will be needed for 32 bit.

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Oh, yes. Google tells me:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

Sounds about right. Can't really test that.

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Interesting..

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

seems to work on 64bit as well.

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