ConvertAll Portable 0.4.2 Dev Test 1

Submitted by Travis Carrico on February 16, 2008 - 4:28am

Application: ConvertAll
Category: Utilities
Description: ConvertAll lets you convert any units easily by typing them in and it selects from a list and you can even combine the different units any way you want (multiply, divide, square, etc).

ConvertAll Portable 0.4.2 Development Test 1 7.07 MB, 7.94 MB installed

Release Notes:

0.4.2 Development Test 1 (2008-05-28):

updated ConvertAll to 0.4.2

0.4.1 Development Test 8 (2008-04-17):

fixed how it would leave registry keys if you edited the background color

switched to the original compiled app instead of my recompiled one because when i first made this i didn't know how to redirect appdata

( categories:

Beta Testing

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Downloaded

Aciago - February 17, 2008 - 5:53pm

Test and report soon...

(May be tonight)

Regards.-

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Tested

Aciago - February 17, 2008 - 6:31pm

On Windows XP, don´t know which configuration because I´m on a Cyber Cafe... the App didn´t launch... showed a popup window reporting an error and to see a log I couldn't find...

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David Dixon II (Homepage) - February 17, 2008 - 7:53pm

I Recieved The Same Error Saying To Contact The Author To Obtain A New Copy.

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hm...

Travis Carrico - February 17, 2008 - 10:32pm

that's weird because it works fine on the 3 computers i tried it on. there wasn't much to making this portable except changing where it stored an ini file, and i upx'd everything. Do you think upxing all the exes, dlls, and pyds is what's causing problems on some computers? One pyd file even went from 12MB to 3.7MB.

Hopefully somebody can give me some insight into this problem.

I've given it a go

jeffm (Homepage) - February 18, 2008 - 2:22am

and it works fine on the XP machine I use at work and also on my Vista install.

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David Dixon II (Homepage) - February 18, 2008 - 10:13am

For Some Reason I Keep Getting An Error And It Will Not Allow Me To Install. IDK What The Problem Is Except Its An NSIS Error.

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Dev Test 2

Travis Carrico - February 18, 2008 - 1:51pm

ok so I fixed some things in both NSIS scripts. Anyone who was having problems before, please test the new one to see if the problems are fixed or not.

Tested

Aciago - February 19, 2008 - 12:48am

This time on Windows Vista Home Premium... no problems here this time...

The original Helpfile (README.html) is not included, so

wk - February 19, 2008 - 8:20am

I`ve found and downloaded it from the original side and put it into the convertall folder. Now it works. Perhaps You could include it by default?

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Great

David Dixon II (Homepage) - February 19, 2008 - 7:54am

No Problems Here. Works Great

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No Help

paulf - February 19, 2008 - 9:55am

The program ran fine but when you "push" the help button you get the message that the Read Me file can't be found.

Dev Test 3

Travis Carrico - February 19, 2008 - 3:44pm

sorry i guess i didn't try all the buttons; the help button now works as it should. That should be the end of the problems.

So... how would i go about moving this to a pre-release or an official release if either is possible? (i'm not sure if John only uses his apps for PortableApps.com or if he puts other people's on there too. i also realize there are probably tons of apps in the beta forums that are probably done also)

To get it official, we sit

ZachHudock - February 19, 2008 - 3:48pm

To get it official, we sit and wait. Just get in line behind Ryan, Patrick, Simeon, powerjuice, rab040ma, rayven01, myself, and probably a few others lol

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Dev Test 5

Travis Carrico - February 29, 2008 - 7:36pm

Dev Test 5 was released to make it fully paf compliant and a little perfectionist code change. I based this app off of the latest Sumatra release but i think mby the paf version for the very latest apps may be slightly higher (VER "1.5.6.0" vs VER "1.5.5.0"). Do I need to change something in my app to make it 1.5.6.0 or is it fine at the paf version it's at?

I'll Test is Out

Patrick Patience (Homepage) - February 29, 2008 - 8:03pm

It sounds like a cool app, I'll give it a shot and check things over.

Nothing left behind, i'll

ZachHudock - February 29, 2008 - 8:28pm

Nothing left behind, i'll check PAF conformity now...just trying to help Patrick out

Edit:

Add your copyright to other/source.readme.txt
Add "_Development_Test_5_en-us" without quotes to !define FILENAME "ConvertAll_Portable_0.4.1" in the installer
You don't have a DefaultData directory under App (i'm not sure if this is needed or not)

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fixed

Travis Carrico - February 29, 2008 - 8:38pm

Fixed

I don't think DefaultData is needed because there is no Default Data to put in there.

Can't Test

Patrick Patience (Homepage) - February 29, 2008 - 8:50pm

Sorry, I downloaded twice, corrupted both times. I think it's partially something with the server.

well i just downloaded it

Travis Carrico - February 29, 2008 - 9:01pm

well i just downloaded it three times in a row and it worked fine. although the server does go down from time to time. plz try again to see if it's the server or possibly a problem w/ your computer and my installer.

Nope

Patrick Patience (Homepage) - February 29, 2008 - 9:23pm

Still corrupted. I had this same issue with Eraser Drop Target, but using DownThemAll! worked, so I'll try that.

Great App

Patrick Patience (Homepage) - February 29, 2008 - 10:31pm

It turns out, DownThemAll! was able to manage the download better after all.

This was a fantastic pick, I had been looking for something like this for quite a while, so thanks for the find.

Here's some changes to make it as PAF Compliant as I know, they're really picky.

Try to put a less straight-up and personal description in the help.html file.
There's a Thumbs.db in App\AppInfo, delete it and turn off thumbnail caching.
I can see you (or they) UPXed , did you UPX using the recommended UPX tools?
To be more generic, change Other\Source\AppSource.txt to: "The source for the base application in this package can be obtained from the portable applications homepage mentioned in the help.html file."
Why's option.py in Other\Source?
You have double quotes on the website (line 25) in the source.
I think you have a small fade-in on the splash which isn't being used anymore, change the 100 in line 161 to 0.
The version number atop the Other\Source\Readme.txt is for the launcher, which can be set as 1.5.
The settings directory isn't shown in the INSTALLATION / DIRECTORY STRUCTURE section in that Readme, any reason why?
The legal copyright in the source is 'PortableApps.com and contributers' for our apps, now.
I don't know what you modified in the installer source, or if you're using a old version, but use a fresh install script from a recent app, and only remove stuff between PRE and POST install code, and change the basic values.

That's all I caught. Good work!

2. actually he should turn

ZachHudock - February 29, 2008 - 10:34pm

2. actually he should turn OFF thumbnail caching.

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Yeah

Patrick Patience (Homepage) - February 29, 2008 - 10:38pm

Thanks.

changes

Travis Carrico - February 29, 2008 - 11:06pm

ok i changed almost everything you said (not uploaded yet). The help.html text was just copied from the app's site but i guess i can write a new one. yeah i used the recommended upx command except I added *.pyd files to it. Option.py is in there because i modified the original app's source code and recompiled. that file was the only one changed (i edited the source code to make the app store it's ini in Data/settings instead of in Application Data). The portable apps installer gives me a "unknown variable/constant "{SectionMain}" detected" warning when i compile it so that's why i changed it originially. Does everyone get that message?

yup i get it too, its not an

ZachHudock - February 29, 2008 - 11:11pm

yup i get it too, its not an error, just a warning, so i ignored it.

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Alright

Patrick Patience (Homepage) - February 29, 2008 - 11:13pm

That all sounds good.

Yes, we all get that error, don't worry about it, even John reassured us.

so far it runs well in Vista

millarrp - February 29, 2008 - 11:31pm

I've been playing with it so far in windows vista for the past few days, but haven't had the chance to post until tonight. I haven't came across any problems so far. Keep up the good work

done... i'm pretty sure

Travis Carrico - February 29, 2008 - 11:46pm

alright, this app is now fully PAF Compliant and I will now post it on John's "Ready for official release" post.

Give it One More Shot

Patrick Patience (Homepage) - March 1, 2008 - 2:17am

I'll give it one more shot and check it out.

Good

Patrick Patience (Homepage) - March 1, 2008 - 2:23am

Development Test 6 is great, awesome work, T.

I'm very impressed. Again, good choice, I love it.

Dev Test 6

Simeon - March 2, 2008 - 1:41pm

works great. Thanks for the handy tool.

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Works Good with Vista

millarrp - March 2, 2008 - 2:22pm

I've just tried it on Vista Ultimate, and it works good.

Dev Test 8

Travis Carrico - April 18, 2008 - 12:13am

Dev Test 8 has now been released and fixes a potential of registry keys being left behind. after thoroughly testing, i'm sure this will be the last dev test release

dev test 8 works in vista ultimate sp1

millarrp - April 18, 2008 - 1:05pm

I just tried it in vista ultimate sp1, and I wasn't able to find any obvious problems

0.4.2

Travis Carrico - May 29, 2008 - 12:40am

updated to 0.4.2 Development Test 1

0.4.2 works well in vista

millarrp - May 29, 2008 - 8:23pm

I just tried this out on Vista Ultimate SP1, and it works well and leaves nothing behind.

Downloaded and will try.

horusofoz - June 15, 2008 - 9:40pm

Downloaded and will try.

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0.4.2 Worked in XP

paulf - June 16, 2008 - 10:40am

I installed the latest version 0.4.2 and tried it out. Appears to work fine and didn't seem to leave any traces behind in the registry.
This was tested on an IBM Thinkpad running XP professional.