OpenOffice.org 3 Portable Pre-Release 2 (updated)

Don't you mean MSVCRT?

Thanks.

Looks like I will be using this pre on such a machine tomorrow.
Any hints what I should be looking for? - The beta2 did fine there, though: There were no portable-related issues.

I´ve checked it this evening, missed it the night before..
At home with OOo local and MSVCRT SP1 installed -> slow response
At work, business as usual, no real problems..

Everything worked perfectly for me on Vista64. I have the 32 bit version of java.

Just tried again with a fresh portable install, and now it won't start up at all. Starts fine if I run soffice.exe directly, but as we know, that creates a local profile.

Odd thing is, the first time I ran this copy, I saw the splash screen for a few seconds. But the main window never showed up and when I checked Task Manager, it wasn't running. Now it won't even show the splash screen before terminating.

Okay, and I just tried deleting the Data directory and running the portable again... The PortableApps splash screen stayed up for at least 30 seconds, then finally went away but now the OpenOffice splash screen is frozen...

Operating system, as I mentioned earlier, is 32-bit Windows Vista Ultimate, SP1. UAC is on.
Visual C++ 2005 runtime is installed.
Portable device is a Seagate FreeAgent|Go 250GB portable hard drive.

Going right to the .exe itself worked. Will there come a time when a profile will not be created on the local PC?

Sorry, I completely skipped over the subject of the post. I installed to PortableApps\OpenOffice3PortablePR1

... languages.

In Extras/Extension Manager: I tried to remove the italian dict ---> error message !

Füge %EXTENSION_name HINZU.
c:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\PEter\Desktop\OpenofficePortable\App\OpenOffice.org 3\program\..\..\data\settings\user\uno_packages\cahe\uno_packages\9899.tmp_\dict-it.oxt\dictionaries.xcu existiert nicht

?? !!

thanks for the reply John. I am aware that Mod 34 is not supported, but I thought complete info would better help debug the problem. [[With a 320gb drive and many PAF and non-PAF applications the standard PAM isn't handling the job. I am awaiting the soon-to-come, when-it-is-ready, enhanced standard PAM.]]

since there´s no official support to an unofficial mod: this is an old R3x mod bug.
If you´re really addicted to calling the OOoBase starter directly or just having it in your list of icons, there are two solutions you should try:
1: use "categorizer" hosted here in the Beta Forum (-> decompress with PortapleAppCompacter, open it with "reshacker" and replace the icon by yours, compress again, create a new folder under PortableApps and put categorizer and Ooo3 into it,refresh menu icons and you´re done: one icon and when you hit it, there´s a dropdown with all your starters.
2: create a bat like "start openofficeBase.exe" convert it with a Bat2exe, hidden modus and add an icon of your choice, put it next to the other starters and name it like MyOOoBase, that should work..

There's just no need for it in terms of from an end user prospective. Most users won't even know what it means or if some of the extensions they're going to add use it.

It would be very easy to add the ability to leave off locales for Celestia... but it doesn't really gain much to save under 2MB off an app that's over 40MB. The same applies here.

And are we sure about future complexity? Remember that the installer has to account for every release of OOP we've done in terms of upgrades without removing user-added dictionaries, languages, fonts, extensions, etc. Would having Python possibly installed complicate that 6 months from now?

admit, it was me

For the same reason that the local install installs links for each app. It's convenient. And it's faster if you want to start a new document to click the OpenOffice.org Writer icon rather than clicking OpenOffice.org, wait for it to come up, then click new text document, then wait for that to come up.

"I've got an hint from sophie gautier some days ago with the offer to make a direct contact between framakey and portableapps.com."
Sophie is a friend and a great person

"For OpenOffice.org Portable the job is nearly done, because of the new modular built process we are able now to create packages and languagepacks for the portables based on the core files and the OpenOffice.org language packs."
OK

"I'll upload the french package soon. I'll be very happy if You are able to test it and perhaps checks the language strings in /Other/PortableApps.comInstallerLANG_FRENCH and
/PortableApps.comLauncherLANG_FRENCH
and the work of the french dicts extension too."
No problem, I've got a dozain of testers awaiting OpenOfficePortable with impatience.

"The files are included in every package, so You can check it in the en-US or de-DE version if You dont want to wait ;-)"
Sure. I'll do that !

"I know that framakey is wellknown in the french community and I believe it will be a big goal working together wherever it is possible."
Sure.
Framakey has its own community, mostly because it's "french only" and a lot of our users can't easily found apps on a "most-in-english" website (even a clear one as portableapps.com). And also because I think we were the firsts to package portableApps tools into a easy to use "Kiosk" (in summer 2005, before PA Suite launch).

I must admit that I was afraid that PA became "non-free" (as in freedom) website some time ago, that's why I continue to update our own repositories. But I'm not afraid anymore, and as time goes by, the PA communities became stronger and stronger, so I started to propose some PA applications (like PokerTH or Gimp) mostly downloaded from PA.com (one of the thing I continue to modify is the default language, but all credits in code still goes to PA.com)

As I want to focus now on :
- "Framakey 2" (who could connect, download and install directly from the application manager, exactly as in Synaptic or Adept)
- "Webapps Portable" (like bitnami, but preconfigured)
maybe I should send some message on dev forum (or directly to John) to see how we could work together more closely.

By the way, I would be happy to specificaly help you on the release of OOo Portable

(I've posted all my non-related OOo questions here : https://portableapps.com/node/16429 Thanks again John for the quick, but long answer)

Here's my test case :
PR1-en-US on XP2 SP3 with MSCVRT installed by a previous standard OOo3 installation
PR1-en-US on XP2 SP2 with no MSCVRT installed
PR1-en-US on Vista (not done yet, I'll edit this post)

Good news : everything's working fine
Step 1: launch OOoP Writer
Step 2: fill registration
Step 3: type some text and check dictionnary
Step 4: various function testing of writer (open, save, export, tables, etc)
Step 5: switching to OOo Calc
Step 6: various testing
Step 7: quit
Step 8: looking if some local files where written outside OOo-PR1 dir

All seems green to me
Just a question: is it normal that, when I use dictionary feature, the french dictionary is used? I thought it was necessary to download the good dict, and was surprised that it wasn't the en-US dict by default.

"perhaps checks the language strings in
/Other/PortableApps.comInstallerLANG_FRENCH and
/PortableApps.comLauncherLANG_FRENCH"
/Other/PortableApps.comInstallerLANG_FRENCH is just fine
but here's some modifications to the second file :
before :

;Courtesy of Dirinfo
LangString LauncherFileNotFound ${LANG_FRENCH} "${PORTABLEAPPNAME} n'a pas pu démarrer. Vous pourriez tenter de le réinstaller pour corriger ce problème. (ERREUR: $MISSINGFILEORPATH non trouvé)"
LangString LauncherAlreadyRunning ${LANG_FRENCH} "Une autre instance de ${APPNAME} est déjà en cours d'exécution. Veuillez fermer les autres instances de ${APPNAME} avant de lancer ${PORTABLEAPPNAME}."
LangString LauncherAskCopyLocal ${LANG_FRENCH} "${PORTABLEAPPNAME} semble s'exécuter depuis un emplacement en lecture-seule. Voudriez-vous le copier dans un dossier temporaire du disque dur et le lancer depuis là ?$\n$\nPrivacy Note: Si vous acceptez, vos données personnelles appartenant à ${PORTABLEAPPNAME} seront temporairement copiées sur un disque local. Bien que cette copie de vos données sera effacée quand vous fermerez ${PORTABLEAPPNAME}, une personne mal intentionnée pourraît éventuellement y avoir accès ultérieurement."
LangString LauncherNoReadOnly ${LANG_FRENCH} "${PORTABLEAPPNAME} ne peut s'éxécuter depuis un emplacement en lecture-seule, et va maintenant se fermer."
LangString LauncherPathTooLong ${LANG_FRENCH} "Le chemin au ${PORTABLEAPPNAME} est trop long. Raccourcis-vous s'il te plaît le chemin à travers le troncation sur les listes étantes de cette utilisation ou à travers les brièvetés des noms de liste de rassembleur."

after

;Courtesy of Dirinfo, pyg
LangString LauncherFileNotFound ${LANG_FRENCH} "${PORTABLEAPPNAME} n'a pas pu démarrer. Vous pouvez tenter de le réinstaller pour corriger ce problème. (ERREUR: $MISSINGFILEORPATH non trouvé)"
LangString LauncherAlreadyRunning ${LANG_FRENCH} "Une autre instance de ${APPNAME} est déjà en cours d'exécution. Veuillez fermer les autres instances de ${APPNAME} avant de lancer ${PORTABLEAPPNAME}."
LangString LauncherAskCopyLocal ${LANG_FRENCH} "${PORTABLEAPPNAME} semble s'exécuter depuis un emplacement en lecture-seule. Voulez-vous le copier dans un dossier temporaire du disque dur et le lancer depuis cet emplacement ?$\n$\nProtection de la vie privée : si vous acceptez, vos données personnelles appartenant à ${PORTABLEAPPNAME} seront temporairement copiées sur un disque local. Bien que ces données soient normalement supprimées lorsque vous fermerez ${PORTABLEAPPNAME}, une personne mal intentionnée pourraît éventuellement y avoir accès ultérieurement."
LangString LauncherNoReadOnly ${LANG_FRENCH} "${PORTABLEAPPNAME} ne peut s'éxécuter depuis un emplacement en lecture-seule, et va maintenant se fermer."
LangString LauncherPathTooLong ${LANG_FRENCH} "Le chemin vers ${PORTABLEAPPNAME} est trop long. Veuillez le raccourcir en donnant des noms de dossiers plus courts ou en déplaçant l'application."

(last sentence was an horrible automatic translation! )
I just hope that these messages would fit in alert box.

I'll test under Vista today.

If you want another test case, just tell me.

And I'm waiting for a french version to test (and many Framakey beta testers are also ready to do so )

Keep up the great work.