I've been lurking on this site for several months, but I didn't really have anything to say or contribute during that time. However, I just recently discovered this:
http://mnemosyne-proj.sourceforge.net
I brought the idea of physical portability (as opposed to system portability, because Mnemosyne already runs on both Windows and Linux) up on the project's forums. Ironically, someone suggested I mention this here. Also, while I've looked at the program's code, my Python programming skills are a bit rusty.
As far as I can tell, all of the program's settings are written to a single folder inside the user's home directory, so I don't think it would be too difficult to make a portable app out of this program.
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One question: Any way to set a different folder?
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Ryan McCue
Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
(Tom Lehrer)
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
I didn't find a way (by running the program) to change the directory that the settings go into. I think it's directly hardcoded to save all settings into the ~/.mnemosyne directory.
I also copied Mnemosyne into a folder on my flash drive to test it out there. That copy of it was accessing the settings directory in my home directory.
The base directory variables are located in the source files
mnemosyne\core\mnemosyne_core.py and mnemosyne\core\mnemosyne_log.py (at least)
in variables calles 'basedir'. Each function has its own basedir variable.
I'm not a python expert, but I guess the lines should be changed from:
basedir = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), ".mnemosyne")to something like this:
basedir = os.path.join(os.path.abs("..\\Data"), ".mnemosyne")I can't build it because I don't want to install PyQT and the other stuff required for compilation, but the later line should change the base directory to ..\Data\.mnemosyne.
I give up then
I have too many projects at the moment.
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Ryan McCue
Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
(Tom Lehrer)
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
Something recently occurred to me. Rather than asking if anybody was interested in trying to make a certain flashcard program portable, I should just have asked if there were any existing flashcard programs that are already portable (or near-portable) that anyone knows of.
So let me pick the community's brains now. Even a very basic portable flashcard program would be useful to me, but the features I'm really looking for are:
As always, free/open-source applications are preferable when available.
As an aside, I'm looking at the source code for a few items such as Wiki on a Stick (particularly for external file or self- load/save operations), to see if I can cobble together a JavaScript-based flashcard program that runs in a browser and does most of what I want.
For the sake of making it available to the search engine, I want to bump this thread with the note of a flash card program that is already close to being portable. It's called Pauker.
http://pauker.sourceforge.net/
At first, I didn't think it could be made portable because it was written in Java. However, the Downloads page has a Windows EXE file that actually constitutes the entire application.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=40334
Unfortunately, it writes a bunch of settings to a place in the registry. Opening regedit and doing a search for "Pauker" should find the folder (in HKEY_USERS) where they're all stored. After that, Yoda da Coda's RegRap program works perfectly for this application. (Just don't forget to fill in the Settings.ini file before you start it.)
https://portableapps.com/node/4164