Wink Portable 2.0 Launcher Development Test 2 Submitted by tanisthalon on March 7, 2008 - 5:25pm
I have updated my portable version of Wink to comply with the latest launcher specs etc. The previous post was build 1000, this is for the latest build 1050 and there is also also a beta build 1060. Application: Wink Download Wink Portable 2.0 Launcher Development Test 2 [247KB download / KB installed] Please give it a try and post your feedback. Regards, Release Notes: I received permission from Satish previously to create this. The correspondance can be found in the Other/Source folder.
Development Test 1 (2008-03-07):
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Excellent
I've been looking for exactly something like this, I will D/L it when I get home and test it out for you. I'm trying to teach someone 500 miles away how to use Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop, and it's just really hard without visual aides.
Ever considered to contact
Ever considered to contact the author and get permission or have the author make a portable compliant version?
Sort off
I contacted Satish in 2006 of the top of my head regarding making a portable version. He was happy for me to go ahead myself and they even linked to this site in the forum for users requesting a portable version etc. It would be easier if Satish had made it open source. But that is his choice. All been well when the site here can go ahead with freeware postings I can then offer the full version here. Until then it will have to remain the launcher only.
'Beneath this mask there is more than flesh and bones. Beneath this mask there is an idea and ideas are bulletproof.' V
You could always make a
You could always make a complete paf.exe and send it to him to host it. That would be completely legal I think.
Way to go!
(PS. I have a wink portable already on my flash, some old beta that was floating around. It included the app itself if i remember correctly)
Indeed
Yes I released a Beta that was available from my site that had it included.
I will get in touch with Satish again regarding him hosting a full paf version himself. But first I will check with John that is ok with him. Obviously it will not be linked here until the freeware aspect is sorted out.
'Beneath this mask there is more than flesh and bones. Beneath this mask there is an idea and ideas are bulletproof.' V
I just suggest contacting
I just suggest contacting the developer. Then in theory there should not be any legal issues. Werther john allows it to be linked from the forum it his own choice.
I think the Freeware aspect is John putting third party releases between ordinary releases and hosting the apps himself. From the right to re-distribute to the right to add the launcher in this case. But it's not that John would mind if a genuine developer would host a Portable App of his own making on his own side unless John would start claiming the original developer is now allowed to because, for example, the launcher or installer contains parts copyrighted by John and therefore he wants the application to be removed.
And if the 'freeware' aspect is ever going to be sorted... It's not that John will start to claim ownership of the Freeware application.
So I think it should be okay to have the original developer to have his own application as a portable application no matter what John allows on this site. And if John really wants to disallow other publishers to make their own Portable Apps for whatever reason this should not be an Open Source project at all.
I think the freeware aspect of PortableApps.com is just implementing a structure of differentiating between Open Source apps and freeware apps. John is fairly tightlipped about what his ideas are about freeware support anyway. For all I know it could very well be he wants also the rights to put in into deals with Flash Drive manufacturers which I would have mixed feelings about. It never can be someone makes a freeware app, gives you the rights to make a portable version and some site decides to make some money from the freeware application.
If John doesn't want the freeware apps even linked from the forum, there are enough websites around who don't have any problem with that, including the developer of the freeware application itself.
So bottom line is, just ask the developer to host a full version of the app compatible with the PortableApps.com format and let John tke it from there. If he doesn't like it, he can even remove the link from the forum. This stands apart from the "hosting it on PortableApps.com" and "Listing it in the list of official PortableApps.com applications". But that's just my opinion...
Development Test 2
I have amended the issues raised by Patrick that were in CamStudio Portable in this Launcher also.
'Beneath this mask there is more than flesh and bones. Beneath this mask there is an idea and ideas are bulletproof.' V
I'll try it out.
Post back later.
Jacobm001
Latest Wink Portable and Super Anti Spyware
Just a quick heads up ....
I had seen a couple of problems with SAS wrongly reporting [and blocking] the latest WP as an adware trojan; I reported this last week to the SAS support team and they've tested WP in the labs and, as of about 4 hours ago, modified their anti-spyware signatures accordingly.
Anyone currently using SAS should make sure that they update their sigs asap.
Robert.
problem with registry
Hello,
After having followed the recommended steps, is there any reason why wink still wants to access my registry or am I omitting something. (I wish to install it on my laptop on which I have no admin privileges)
thx for your assistance
cheers,
JH
some of the apps on
some of the apps on PortableApps need access to the registry in order to write the user's personal settings.
We don't modify the base applications at all, so if the base app stores it's settings in the registry, our wrapper for the base app will backup the local registry settings for that app (if they exist), move the portable settings into place in the registry, launch the application, and then on close of the app, the launcher will save the portable settings back to the flash drive and restore the local settings.
These apps don't claim to not touch the registry, they claim to leave no personal data behind and keep local settings unchanged.
The developer formerly known as ZGitRDun8705
Requirement
As Zach has kindly explained, it is a harmless action required for the application to run that is tidied up upon proper closing of the portable version.
'Beneath this mask there is more than flesh and bones. Beneath this mask there is an idea and ideas are bulletproof.' V