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Submitted by Voltron43 on October 15, 2009 - 11:12am

I've seen that a few people have tried to create a PortableApps launcher for ImgBurn and stopped developing it (ImgBurn Portable (v2.4.0.0), proper PAM/standalone portable app package - February 29, 2009, ImgBurn Portable Launcher Dev 5 "Need Testers" - 2008-06-30).

I'm thinking of programming the launcher in AutoHotkey (similar to Nathan9222's CCleaner PortableLauncher, Recuva PortableLauncher, and Defraggler PortableLauncher).

The portable launcher will first download the latest version from the website, install it on the Flash Drive, then launch ImgBurn. Lightning UK, the author of ImgBurn, posted the following in the ImgBurn forum:

Feel free to recommend the program as a solution for burning the ISO file and even link to the download page but to keep things easy, I'd prefer it if you didn't 'bundle' it. It's not really how I like ImgBurn to get distributed and if I say it's OK for one company to do it (like in your case where burning is nothing to do with the main product you're selling), others (where that's not the case) assume it's OK for them too - that's what I want to avoid.

What do you guys think?

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Sounds good : )

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horusofoz - October 15, 2009 - 7:13pm

Seems the same principle as a PAF Live installer. Maybe have a look at PicPick Portable or Java Portable to see how this has been done in the past.

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Check the imgburn forum the author replied

the0ne - October 23, 2009 - 2:40pm

As has just been done with the U3P installer, if you make one I can disassemble/copy or tell me the steps, I'll do it and stick it on the website.

I just need to be able to automate the package creation so I can do it with the double click of a BAT file. (i.e. create the normal setup, u3p and portableapps one at the same time

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=12282

I've replied to the author's

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Voltron43 - October 24, 2009 - 8:30pm

I've replied to the author's post.

BAT file

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John T. Haller (Homepage) - October 24, 2009 - 8:54pm

Also let him know it can be done with a BAT file. You can feed the X:\PathToFiles\IMGBurnPortable path to PortableApps.comInstaller.exe and it will automatically create and drop the installer in X:\PathToFiles

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Done

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Voltron43 - October 24, 2009 - 11:26pm

Done

Launcher Language Question

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Voltron43 - October 24, 2009 - 11:30pm

I noticed that most launchers are programmed using NSIS and so I ask if all launchers should be programmed in NSIS or can a different language be used (such as AutoHotkey)?

yeah. But honestly, you

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OliverK (Homepage) - October 25, 2009 - 2:04am

yeah. But honestly, you should probably use NSIS as most of use are proficient in it, and you can copy\paste most of the things that you need. Laughing out loud

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