Console Portable 2.00.141b Development Test 1

when i click on your download-link i get the following page:

"500 - Your link has timed out or is invalid. Go back to the drop page and refresh your browser."

Something wrong with the download link?

I've been looking for something like this. Not sure I like the lack of window border but everything else looks nice. Curious why you called it console2 instead of just console?

Checked over the source:

console2portable.nsi

• On lines 168-169 you refer to config.xml. Shouldn't that be console.xml?
• Not sure what you're trying to do on line 181, but it doesn't look right. Why would Console2PortableSettings.ini ever be in $PROGRAMDIRECTORY? Also is line 180 leftover from notepad++?
• On 183 you're missing the plugin call to get the user type. Actually 183-186 doesn't appear to be necessary at all since for both user and guest you're doing the same thing...
• There's quite a few things wrong with UpdateLocations.. the way it's written it completely skips the part to replace the drive letter, and it doesn't account for the default drive letter on the first run.

Here's a snippet that should clean things up:

	SkipSplashScreen:
		;=== Check for data files
		IfFileExists "$PROGRAMDIRECTORY\console.xml" UpdateLocations ;=== settings already in program directory
		IfFileExists "$SETTINGSDIRECTORY\console.xml" MoveSettings ;=== settings found in data directory
		
		;=== Copy the default settings files
		StrCmp $DEFAULTLOCATION "true" "" UpdateLocations ;=== if not default location, user is on their own
		CreateDirectory "$SETTINGSDIRECTORY"
		CopyFiles /SILENT "$EXEDIR\App\DefaultData\settings\*.*" "$SETTINGSDIRECTORY\"
		
	MoveSettings:
		Rename "$SETTINGSDIRECTORY\console.xml" "$PROGRAMDIRECTORY\console.xml"
		
	UpdateLocations:
		;=== Update files for new location
		${GetRoot} $EXEDIR $0
		IfFileExists "$SETTINGSDIRECTORY\Console2PortableSettings.ini" "" CreateSettingsIni
		ReadINIStr $1 "$SETTINGSDIRECTORY\Console2PortableSettings.ini" "Console2PortableSettings" "LastDriveLetter"
		WriteINIStr "$SETTINGSDIRECTORY\Console2PortableSettings.ini" "Console2PortableSettings" "LastDriveLetter" "$0"
		IfFileExists "$PROGRAMDIRECTORY\console.xml" "" GetPassedParameters
			${ReplaceInFile} "$PROGRAMDIRECTORY\console.xml" "$1\" "$0\"
			Delete "$PROGRAMDIRECTORY\console.xml.old"
			Goto GetPassedParameters
		
	CreateSettingsINI:
	    ;=== Create initial settings INI with default drive letter
		WriteINIStr "$SETTINGSDIRECTORY\Console2PortableSettings.ini" "Console2PortableSettings" "LastDriveLetter" "c:"
		Goto UpdateLocations
		
	GetPassedParameters:

Make sure to delete the other nsexec line near the bottom too, that's a leftover from notepad++. Also you need to clean up the installer, it still has leftovers in the pre-install code.

Overall good first effort, just a few logic problems. It takes a bit to get used to how NSIS script works. :)

Can i view web pages and how

I've updated the launcher with the recommendations made.

thanks for the help guys.

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I like this. It seems really cool. I have the UnixUtils and some other items I would like to have in the PATH, is there anyway to add to the PATH with this?

I mean the %PATH% variable, so that I can add my UnixUtils bin directory, and my CommonFiles/CommandLine directory to the system Path. That way, I only have to type ls(.exe), instead of F:/PortableApps/CommonFiles/GnuWin32/bin/ls.exe to display current directory settings. (etc...) Does that make sense? I think it may have to do with the shell settings, but I don't know, and boogered up my home install playing with it.
*edit*
Sorry, this should have been replying to the above, I was not logged in when I hit reply.

Edit: Nvm.