Hi everyone,
I have 2 questions for you....
1) Is there a way to define which Sevice Pack should be installed? I have this problem with Mari0Portable. The MinOS is currently at XP, but in fact it should be XP, SP3 (as noted in release notes and game forums).
2) I wanted to make an app with multiple icons. I used this:
[Control]
Icons=2
Start=AppNamePortable.exe
Start1=AppNamePortable.exe
Name1=AppName Portable
Start2=AppNamePortable2.exe
Name2=AppName Portable Other Part
I also made a AppNamePortableLauncher.ini and AppNamePortable2Launcher.ini.
The icons did appear in my PA menu, but the second icon didn't do anything, since it was linked to an unexisting exe. The first one worked like a charm, since it's AppID was the same as that in appinfo.ini. (That's my guess why it worked....)
I had to create a appinfo.ini with AppID "AppNamePortable" and one with AppID "AppNamePortable2".
Is it normal that I have to create 2 different appinfo.ini files to compile both exes?
This is a generic example, I'll provide real files if needed...
Thanks in advance!
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We stick to single icons for all apps except for the one exception, office suites. Lots of Windows apps ship with superfluous icons for things like settings, safe mode (Mozilla apps), deleting settings (VLC), or getting to a specific part of the app (AMP2) when all those things are actually reachable within the app itself or are better left to the command line. So, does this app *need* more than one icon when our other hundreds of apps (except office suites) don't?
MinOS doesn't currently support service packs as it's unusual for an app to require greater than SP2 on XP and it is unusual for an XP machine to be running release of SP1 at this point. We'll need to loop Chris into the discussion on adding the ability to distinguish service packs.
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We'll first of all, it's for personal use.
Second, I just want to add a command parameter to the exe I'm opening.
And I also want to maintain the option of running it without it.
So yes, I'd like to have multiple icons, or solve this the way it's normally done. (I guess still by using multiple icons...)
My question was this:
Did you compile all the exe's for OpenOffice all in one run of the PortableApps.comLauncherGenerator.
Or did you have to change the AppNamePortable.ini file every time you added a new exe/command line parameter?
I did the latter. If this is currently the only way of doing this, that's OK. I just wanted to know if there maybe was a more efficient way. I mean, I define 2 icons in my appinfo.ini. They both have a .ini file with the corresponding name, why not let them compile in one go?
Thanks for the clarification on MinOS, I hope the people will read the links I gave them to see that they should update to XP SP3 to propely play Mari0Portable...
Yes, I set the working directory!
The extra icons for LibreOffice are custom done to launch the main EXE with a commandline switch. So i'd take a look at that. It'll work best for your app.
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I suppose you're talking about this? That is what I did with my second exe. But for this I needed a second appinfo.ini file.
Or do you mean that I have to make a AppNamePortable.ini in the AppNamePortable root folder and pass command line arguments in that way? In this case the command line parameters won't go to the normal exe, I think, which isn't solving the problem.
Can you give me a link please?
Yes, I set the working directory!