From 8e5b8510c852335c0cc65441550110a8dcf64d4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thierry Crozat
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2017 18:54:42 +0100
Subject: CMD: Improve warnings for --detect and --add when no game is found

---
 base/commandLine.cpp | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'base/commandLine.cpp')

diff --git a/base/commandLine.cpp b/base/commandLine.cpp
index 475c917bdb..6814abd889 100644
--- a/base/commandLine.cpp
+++ b/base/commandLine.cpp
@@ -870,7 +870,8 @@ static GameList recListGames(Common::FSNode dir, bool recursive) {
 
 /** Display all games in the given directory, return ID of first detected game */
 static Common::String detectGames(Common::String path, Common::String recursiveOptStr) {
-	if (path.empty())
+	bool noPath = path.empty();
+	if (noPath)
 		path = ".";
 	bool recursive = (recursiveOptStr == "true");
 	//Current directory
@@ -879,6 +880,9 @@ static Common::String detectGames(Common::String path, Common::String recursiveO
 
 	if (candidates.empty()) {
 		printf("WARNING: ScummVM could not find any game in %s\n", dir.getPath().c_str());
+		if (noPath) {
+			printf("WARNING: Consider using --path=<path> *before* --add or --detect to specify a directory\n");
+		}
 		if (!recursive) {
 			printf("WARNING: Consider using --recursive *before* --add or --detect to search inside subdirectories\n");
 		}
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