versapad_combined.DEFAULT_PATH was hardcoded to this one machine's OneDrive
desktop, which made the tool unusable anywhere else. versapad_data.app_dir()
now resolves to the running .exe's own folder when frozen, or the project
directory when run from source, and DEFAULT_PATH hangs off that instead.
load_or_fetch() previously raised when both the file was missing and the
board unreachable, blocking a fresh install with no config and no board
attached. It now falls back to an empty default_combined() in that case, so
the tool is immediately usable either way. desktop_viewer's
_current_profile_view() picks up the same fallback instead of re-implementing
a narrower version of it.
Also drop the hardcoded PROFILE_NAMES dict, which had drifted out of sync
with the profile_names already stored in the combined JSON -- renaming a
profile in Programmiermodus never showed up in the read-only/browser views.
server.py and desktop_viewer.py now read names from the same JSON everywhere.
versapad_data.CONFIG_PATHS (read-only interop with the official C# VersaGUI's
JSON export) is intentionally left on the OneDrive desktop -- nothing in
this codebase writes there, it's not part of this tool's own config.
pip install of pyinstaller/pystray/pillow was a separate manual step the
README only mentioned in prose, so the script silently died on missing
packages -- especially bad on Explorer double-click, where the window
closes before any error is visible. Consolidate all dependencies into
requirements.txt (also used by README's plain "pip install -r" flow), have
the script install it itself, wrap the whole build in try/catch with
exit-code checks after every native call, and pause on both success and
failure unless -NoPause is passed.
Also move the build output from %LOCALAPPDATA% into dist/ next to the
script, so it's easy to find and matches the already-gitignored dist/ entry.
AGENTS.md now follows the mandated section structure (Project Goal,
Aktuell unterstützte Architektur, Kritische Domänenregeln,
Existing-Codebase-Regel, Implementierungsdisziplin, Naming, Deferred
Work, Dokumentation und Verifikation) instead of an organically grown
set of headings. Folds in all prior technical notes (protocol
validation, network-drive build/runtime gotchas, threading rules)
under the appropriate section, and fixes a stale "no tray icon yet"
line that no longer matched the code. README gets an explicit honest
status paragraph (what's tested, what's not: no automated tests, no
prebuilt exe download, hardcoded paths).
No docs/ tree: project has no database or persistent multi-user
service, so the full doc structure isn't warranted per the standard.
AGENTS.md is agent-facing session notes, not a proper intro for
someone landing on the repo cold. README covers: what this is,
requirements, how to run from source or build the .exe (and why no
prebuilt .exe is committed -- network-drive build/runtime gotchas),
file overview, MCP server usage, known limitations.
