VirtuaWin Portable Development Test 1 Submitted by Bobert on July 18, 2008 - 3:15pm
VirtuaWin Portable Development Test 1 Application: VirtuaWin VirtuaWin is designed to be simple and elegant to use yet still be highly configurable and extensible. Please test and report anyu bugs/errors you may fine. I have not encountered any in my testing, but please report any you may find. :) I have tested it on XP service pack 3 in a limited account, worked fine. Download VirtuaWin Portable Development Test 1 [258KB download / 359KB installed] (MD5: ed81f99017df24653baa554ce54dc8a0) Release Notes: Development test 1: ( categories: )
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There are at least 2
There are at least 2 different other releases in Beta if I remember correctly :)
I could only find one, and it
I could only find one, and it was over a year old. I just made this for myself, and it turned out good so I posted it. I actually forgot to search.:(
There's no place like 127.0.0.1
cool. does this account for
cool. does this account for plugin settings as well?
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Patrick Patience is a key virtue.
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Registry
Patrick did the other one. If I remember correctly, he was having issues with VirtuaWin writing registry entries about the plugins, and there was no way to know what plugins were installed to remove the registry entries. I'm not sure if a new release has been made that changes that, or if you found a way to fix that, but just to let you know.
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook
Yep, registry entries for
Yep, registry entries for plugins were the problem. That was the reasen he removed his app. I made mine available after he removed his with the understanding that people should not use plugins.
Maybe a solution could be the launcher taking in account all the individual plugins as well and handling those correct if they are present. Sounds like a lot of work though.
It doesn't do that, YET...
I am working to see if I can get the plugins to work correctly. I forgot to check about the modules (I just thought it stored the settings in the .cfg file) until it was halfway through uploading it. I'll see if I can get that to work in dev test 2 :)
There's no place like 127.0.0.1
the plugins store their
the plugins store their settings in either config files, or the registry. but its a whole different matter trying to account for all the plugins without a proper guidelines to making the plugins.
Australia's Great Dividing Range : Dividing From What?
Patrick Patience is a key virtue.
behold, return of taneth111! (insert darth vader music here)
works fine
Works fine on my very low power WinXP SP3 box. Though I would like to know if there is a way for it to run on without the tray icon (I would of course have to kill the process manually) ?
There is not a way that I
There is not a way that I know of, you could check the support forum at VW's website.
There's no place like 127.0.0.1
Yes, there is
Setup -> Expert tab -> Advanced options fieldset -> Hide system tray icon checkbox.
If you do this, you can use a task manager like DTaskManager (it is inherently portable, so long as you don't tell it to save its settings in the registry) and its "End Process" to close it friendlily, rather than terminating the process ("Kill Process" with it).
If you ever want the tray icon back, edit VirtuaWinPortable\App\virtuawin\config\virtuawin.cfg, and find the line that says "Display_systray_icon# 0" and change the 0 to a 1. Then it'll come back. :-)
Edit: I'm not using Bobert's version, he may have fixed config storage, in which case it'll be Data\settings\virtuawin.cfg or something like that.
Chris Morgan (formerly chrism) :-)
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Portable_App_Developer = true
what version
I just downloaded and installed VirtuaWin from their website directly, and they now have settings to set it up to run like a portable app. What version is the portable app using? If it's having problems, it could be that they've been fixed.
Thanks!