Portable please

Stefan · Post by **Stefan** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 11:57 am

Hi DV,
thank you for new release.
Please consider to leave my registry alone
and use an INI or XML in program folder instead.
(I mean next to the exe file)

Would be fine to have all portable.

Thank you
Stefan

Art · Post by **Art** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 9:15 pm

I second that! Portable would be great!

Regards,

Art

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 9:19 pm

I second that request. Portable would be super!

Art

Brandon M. Sergent · Post by **Brandon M. Sergent** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 1:54 pm

Ditto.

My nazi IT deparment thinks I'm too stupid to install a program without blowing up the left side of the building.

DV · Post by DV » Tue Oct 07, 2008 8:42 am

I can relate to that!

Will investigate making a portable version when I get time...
Basically the current version uses several ocx's (richtext, commondialog) and needs the vb6 runtime libraries. These may or may not already be installed on your target machine.
It'll write to the registry though...

Brandon M. Sergent · Post by **Brandon M. Sergent** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 5:01 pm

As a temporary fix, one can extract the installer using Uniextract.

http://legroom.net/software/uniextract

Brandon M. Sergent · Post by **Brandon M. Sergent** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:27 pm

Never mind, it doesn't check its root folder for the needed resource files, thus even uniextraction doesn't make it portable.

My apologies.