[OUTDATED] Freeciv 2.2.0 portable Development Test 6

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June 12, 2009 - 1:53pm

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[OUTDATED] Freeciv 2.2.0 portable Development Test 6

Application: Freeciv
Category: Games
Description: Freeciv is a Free and Open Source empire-building strategy game inspired by the history of human civilization. The game commences in prehistory and your mission is to lead your tribe from the stone age to the space age...

Download Freeciv Portable 2.2.0 Development Test 5 [16.2MB download / 45.0MB installed]
(MD5: ad3029300bb00cc59170181ba5b14bd2)

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Release Notes:

Development Test 6 (2010-02-11):

Updated to Freeciv 2.2.0

Development Test 5 (2010-02-11):
As per Bart.S's critique:

Attempted to make language files optional
Fixed category in appinfo.ini
Added more image sizes to appicon.ico
Removed unused DefaultData folder
Used common ini strings in FreecivPortable.nsi and FreecivPortable.ini
Added Readme.txt
Tweaked language selection

Development Test 4 (2010-01-15):

Added language support

Attempts to get information (including language from the INI file
If no INI exists, attempts to get language from PA platform

Updated Freeciv to version 2.1.10
Updated installer to PortableApps.comInstaller 1.02

Development Test 3 (2009-07-08):

Changed filename to meet Development Test guidelines
no other changes

Test Release 2 (2009-06-16):

launcher looking for the wrong executable
made launcher save files and settings are saved to the Data\settings directory
compressed of the files to reduce the footprint

Test Release 1 (209-06-12): Initial release

June 12, 2009 - 8:23pm

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Java

Thanks for making this. Can you confirm if it uses Java Portable or is it set to use the base java install? To be portable you'll need to instruct the app to use Java Portable. Having a look at Chris Morgan's efforts with Gantt Porject Portable and Sweet Home 3D Portable will give you good examples.

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June 15, 2009 - 9:28am

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RE: Java - oops

I didn't even realize that FreeCiv used Java. I'll take a look at getting it to use Java Portable.

Thanks!

June 15, 2009 - 10:15am

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Are you sure?

Are you sure that FreeCiv uses Java? The FreeCiv Sourceforge page says that it uses C.

June 15, 2009 - 10:45am

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I just downloaded the source

I just downloaded the source code. Didn't see any JAVA at all...

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June 15, 2009 - 1:28pm

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Maybe...

Did you mean GTK+ instead of Java? I did see that FreeCiv uses GTK+. I briefly looked at Pidgin Portable to see how GTK+ is done there, but I think I need to look at some other examples to figure it out. If anyone has any suggestions, I would be glad to hear them!

I also realized that I'm not saving the saved games. I don't know if there are any other settings I need to copy over too. I'm trying to get that figured out, then I'll upload a new installer.

Thanks,

Andy

June 15, 2009 - 1:54pm

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GTK apps:

GIMP, Dia, Inkscape, ... and many more

June 15, 2009 - 2:47pm

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Awesome!

Thanks for the references, I'll take a look at them later.

Andy

June 23, 2009 - 9:58am

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No GTKCommon

John said that PortableApps.com is moving away from GTKCommon, so there isn't anything I need to do with that.

June 23, 2009 - 10:31am

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I know :-)

You asked for examples and I listed some ...

... and my Dia Portable launcher doesn't support GTKCommon anymore. It still supports custom paths to the GTKDirectory (for the geeks ;)).

June 23, 2009 - 11:10am

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Oh...

I didn't mean that as me telling you that. I wanted to put a note in the comments to say that I wasn't doing the GTKCommon thing, and this seemed the most appropriate place to put it. I had it in the main post, but removed it.

June 23, 2009 - 12:02pm

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Ah, I see

Never mind

June 15, 2009 - 8:03pm

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My bad

I think I got FreeCiv and FreeCol mixed up.

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June 13, 2009 - 6:08pm

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Compression

Thanks for doing this! My only comment is that the .exe, .dll and .png files aren't compressed.

Edit: There is an even bigger problem. Your launcher is looking for freeciv.exe and not civclient.exe, so the launcher doesn't work. I renamed civclient.exe to freeciv.exe and then it worked fine here.

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June 15, 2009 - 9:31am

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RE: Compression

Check, I will do compression on all of the files to get them as small as possible. Thanks.

That's interesting that it didn't work on you computer. I was able to run it and it found the .exe file just fine. I'll take a look at it and get that problem fixed.

Thanks for the feedback!

June 15, 2009 - 5:22pm

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launcher

working on launcher
woot! first time i have studied NSIS

June 15, 2009 - 5:43pm

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working launcher

http://rapidshare.com/files/244960543/FreeCivPortable_2.1.9_English.paf....

temporary link to an modified version with a out -of-box working launcher

changes:
launcher points to civclient.exe instead of freeciv.exe
installer version .91.3

June 16, 2009 - 5:45am

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Feedback

* Here you can find a screenshot confirming that FreeCiv Portable is not currently working on a fresh install.
* You cannot label FreeCiv a pre-release. This is done once it had been tested and approved to go to pre-release stage by the release team.
* Thanks again for creating this = )

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June 16, 2009 - 7:18am

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Oops, yeah...

Thanks for the screenshot. I think I've already fixed the problem, but I haven't had a chance to test it in a VM yet.

I've been out for a while, and I wasn't thinking when I labeled it Pre-Release. I
have now changed it to Test-Release, which, I hope is less official.

I hope to have the save files figured out soon, and I'll post another test when I get that working.

June 16, 2009 - 1:38pm

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Test Release 2

I updated the post, but that doesn't register in the forum, so I'm posting to let people know that I've updated this.

June 17, 2009 - 5:23am

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Thanks dagardner

Will test tonight = )

EDIT: I was impatient and did a quick test at work. I can confirm it works on XP SP3 without admin rights. Great work mate. Also I noticed the icon looks like it has a halo. Can I recommend getting an icon from the FreeCiv development team rather than this one which looks like you've extracted from a screenshot. Alternatively I found this one thru a google image search. It's in jpeg format but using IcoFX (Portable launcher here) you can easily convert it to a ico file.

Hope this helps = )

EDIT2: Confirming the game works with admin rights on XP. Regshot results below:

Regshot 1.8.2
Comments:
Datetime:2009/6/17 08:39:10  ,  2009/6/17 08:54:02
Computer:TOWER_7200 , TOWER_7200
Username: , 

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Values deleted:4
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HKU\S-1-5-21-796845957-789336058-839522115-500\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache\G:\PortableApps\DiskCleanerPortable\DiskCleanerPortable.exe: "Disk Cleaner Portable"
HKU\S-1-5-21-796845957-789336058-839522115-500\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache\G:\PortableApps\DiskCleanerPortable\App\DiskCleaner\dclean.exe: "Disk Cleaner main module"
HKU\S-1-5-21-796845957-789336058-839522115-500\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache\G:\PortableApps\RegshotPortable\RegshotPortable.exe: "Regshot Portable"
HKU\S-1-5-21-796845957-789336058-839522115-500\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache\G:\PortableApps\RegshotPortable\App\regshot\regshot.exe: "regshot"

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Values added:8
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HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\StandardProfile\AuthorizedApplications\List\G:\PortableApps\FreeCivPortable\App\FreeCiv\civserver.exe: "G:\PortableApps\FreeCivPortable\App\FreeCiv\civserver.exe:*:Enabled:civserver"
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\StandardProfile\AuthorizedApplications\List\G:\PortableApps\FreeCivPortable\App\FreeCiv\civserver.exe: "G:\PortableApps\FreeCivPortable\App\FreeCiv\civserver.exe:*:Enabled:civserver"
HKU\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache\G:\PortableApps\FreeCivPortable\App\FreeCiv\civserver.exe: "civserver"
HKU\S-1-5-21-796845957-789336058-839522115-500\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache\LangID: 09 04
HKU\S-1-5-21-796845957-789336058-839522115-500\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache\G:\PortableApps\FreeCivPortable\App\FreeCiv\civserver.exe: "civserver"
HKU\S-1-5-21-796845957-789336058-839522115-500\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache\@xpsp3res.dll,-20000: "Network Diagnostics for Windows XP"
HKU\S-1-5-21-796845957-789336058-839522115-500\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache\@C:\WINDOWS\system32\netshell.dll,-1200: "Network Connections"
HKU\S-1-5-18\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache\G:\PortableApps\FreeCivPortable\App\FreeCiv\civserver.exe: "civserver"

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Values modified:8
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HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG\Seed: 0B 3F CF 11 50 55 F8 DF 53 0C 08 8B E0 9F C9 C2 4A 73 C0 A1 32 58 8F 40 26 16 7E 8E A5 95 A7 0B E3 A4 61 5C 9A B6 96 D2 2B E4 A1 56 9C F3 C5 78 50 79 AF 1B F9 6F B4 30 87 A9 D0 C8 2D 18 FC EB 64 E3 0D 81 4A E7 38 61 90 AA 45 B0 FD 8F CA 5B
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG\Seed: CC 61 94 70 9B BD A0 C9 3B BA 52 0E 26 08 1C 8A D6 BA 31 06 6A B6 CB AF 5D 92 65 F8 A9 77 53 48 A4 46 AD DE 43 70 87 FF 7A CE CF 19 6E 9A 46 BB 52 24 D4 8C 6A 87 55 5F 1A 71 4F CB E4 AE 46 3C C6 B9 29 1E 1D 8C 61 57 95 E2 29 5D 65 87 69 26
HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\DeviceClasses\{6994AD04-93EF-11D0-A3CC-00A0C9223196}\##?#USB#VID_046D&PID_0A07&MI_00#6&7A0040C&0&0000#{6994ad04-93ef-11d0-a3cc-00a0c9223196}\#GLOBAL\Device Parameters\Mixer\       0\Controls\       1\Channel       0: 0x0000C28F
HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\DeviceClasses\{6994AD04-93EF-11D0-A3CC-00A0C9223196}\##?#USB#VID_046D&PID_0A07&MI_00#6&7A0040C&0&0000#{6994ad04-93ef-11d0-a3cc-00a0c9223196}\#GLOBAL\Device Parameters\Mixer\       0\Controls\       1\Channel       0: 0x00008F5C
HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\DeviceClasses\{6994AD04-93EF-11D0-A3CC-00A0C9223196}\##?#USB#VID_046D&PID_0A07&MI_00#6&7A0040C&0&0000#{6994ad04-93ef-11d0-a3cc-00a0c9223196}\#GLOBAL\Device Parameters\Mixer\       0\Controls\       1\Channel       1: 0x0000C28F
HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\DeviceClasses\{6994AD04-93EF-11D0-A3CC-00A0C9223196}\##?#USB#VID_046D&PID_0A07&MI_00#6&7A0040C&0&0000#{6994ad04-93ef-11d0-a3cc-00a0c9223196}\#GLOBAL\Device Parameters\Mixer\       0\Controls\       1\Channel       1: 0x00008F5C
HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\SharedAccess\Epoch\Epoch: 0x00001163
HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\SharedAccess\Epoch\Epoch: 0x00001166
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceClasses\{6994AD04-93EF-11D0-A3CC-00A0C9223196}\##?#USB#VID_046D&PID_0A07&MI_00#6&7A0040C&0&0000#{6994ad04-93ef-11d0-a3cc-00a0c9223196}\#GLOBAL\Device Parameters\Mixer\       0\Controls\       1\Channel       0: 0x0000C28F
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceClasses\{6994AD04-93EF-11D0-A3CC-00A0C9223196}\##?#USB#VID_046D&PID_0A07&MI_00#6&7A0040C&0&0000#{6994ad04-93ef-11d0-a3cc-00a0c9223196}\#GLOBAL\Device Parameters\Mixer\       0\Controls\       1\Channel       0: 0x00008F5C
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceClasses\{6994AD04-93EF-11D0-A3CC-00A0C9223196}\##?#USB#VID_046D&PID_0A07&MI_00#6&7A0040C&0&0000#{6994ad04-93ef-11d0-a3cc-00a0c9223196}\#GLOBAL\Device Parameters\Mixer\       0\Controls\       1\Channel       1: 0x0000C28F
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceClasses\{6994AD04-93EF-11D0-A3CC-00A0C9223196}\##?#USB#VID_046D&PID_0A07&MI_00#6&7A0040C&0&0000#{6994ad04-93ef-11d0-a3cc-00a0c9223196}\#GLOBAL\Device Parameters\Mixer\       0\Controls\       1\Channel       1: 0x00008F5C
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess\Epoch\Epoch: 0x00001163
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess\Epoch\Epoch: 0x00001166
HKU\S-1-5-21-796845957-789336058-839522115-500\SessionInformation\ProgramCount: 0x00000003
HKU\S-1-5-21-796845957-789336058-839522115-500\SessionInformation\ProgramCount: 0x00000001

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Files added:4
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C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\CIVCLIENT.EXE-055C2BE0.pf
C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\CIVSERVER.EXE-04BA6FB1.pf
C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\FREECIVPORTABLE.EXE-0144AAC2.pf
C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\RUNDLL32.EXE-3F3109C1.pf

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Files [attributes?] modified:5
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C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\Logitech\LCD Software\LCD Manager\LGLCDDB.TXT
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\ntuser.dat.LOG
C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\default.LOG
C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\software.LOG
C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\system.LOG

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Total changes:29
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June 17, 2009 - 10:15am

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Icon and stuff

I was able to find a relatively high res PNG of the FreeCiv logo on DeviantArt. I have now updated the icon and the next time I do a release, it should be fixed. I got the previous icon from the freeciv.org favicon; I guess that icon wasn't high quality.

Thanks for doing the Regshot; Is there anything that needs to be addressed from that?
- The deleted values appear to be unrelated (related to Disk Cleaner and Regshot)
- The added values appear to be ones added when you run any program. Do portable apps typically clean those up?
- I don't see anything in the modified values that is related to FreeCiv.
- Do I need to clean up the prefetches?
- I don't think that there is anything I can do about the modified files

I'm new to this, so any guidance would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Andy

June 18, 2009 - 2:42am

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Clean shot

That regshot is clean, all of the things there that were added are generally acceptable to not worry about. Usually its only things in HKCU\Software, HKLM\Software and HKU\*\Software (although this translates to HKCU\Software).

But there’s no sense crying over every mistake,
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.

June 18, 2009 - 7:24am

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Sweet

Thanks for the interpretation of the runes. I'm glad everything came up clean.

June 29, 2009 - 1:33pm

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Has anyone tried this?

Any comments/suggestions/bugs?

June 30, 2009 - 2:27am

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It's all good here = )

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June 30, 2009 - 9:12am

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Can anyone tell me?

Aside from the uploaded file name, is there anything that I need to change about this to get it into the offical PortableApps.com release format? I've looked at what is there, and I think that I have it all; I want to double check before I change the file name (since that would be the only change that I am making) and upload again.

Thanks,

Andy

August 7, 2009 - 8:45am

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Still no problems

I've been playing this off and on and have encountered no functionality issues whatsoever. I can't comment on advanced things such as code but from an end user perspective this is all good. Hopefully the Release Team give this a look soon.

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August 7, 2009 - 8:53am

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Thanks!

I'm glad to hear that there aren't any issues.

August 7, 2009 - 12:10pm

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file hosting

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August 7, 2009 - 1:36pm

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Firefox + AdBlock Plus

If you are having a problem with ads and pop ups, I recommend that you use Firefox + AdBlock Plus; I use Firefox and I wasn't even aware that the site had ads and pop ups.

August 31, 2009 - 7:17am

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seems to work

I installed it, and it seems to work properly.
i don't know if it respect the specifications (and i can't control it... XD).

Just one point, how can i change the language from english to french ?
I searched on the official website, trough the folders of the app but didnt' find anything...
On the website there is an aticle about gettext, but nothing about installing new language. (I use win XP).

thank you for this great job !

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August 31, 2009 - 8:21am

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Translations

I guess I need to look at translations. The way it is done with the non-portable version of FreeCiv is to set an environment variable LANG with the appropriate language abbreviation. That isn't presently built into FreeCiv Portable. But I will take a look at it.

August 31, 2009 - 1:36pm

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thank you thank you thank you

thank you thank you thank you !!!!!

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September 3, 2009 - 8:03am

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Arrgh!

Nothing is as easy as it looks. I found on the Freeciv website that to change the language on Windows, sent an environment variable LANG equal to the two letter language code, but that doesn't seem to work.

Do you have a computer that uses French by default? Freeciv is supposed to use the local language without any modification; I'm curious as to whether that is actually working.

August 31, 2009 - 8:01pm

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Still working great here

Been giving this the occasional thorough tst and even installed it for a friend and no complaints as yet. Looking forward to the pre-release and thanks again for your work

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September 4, 2009 - 3:26pm

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also thanks

a great accomplishment

is better than i remembered

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January 3, 2010 - 6:45am

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Language support

One thing I'd like to see is language support. Is there a chance that you can add this?

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January 4, 2010 - 7:38am

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Haven't been able to figure it out

I've looked at Language support since the request was made for French, but I can't figure out how to get it to work. I've done what their wiki says for language support, but it didn't change the language. I'm not sure whether I'm doing something wrong, missing necessary files, or language support is just broken.

January 9, 2010 - 4:05pm

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It works

I installed the latest version with all languages and copied it over to the portable version. It works.

If you want it, drop me an email (its on my account page) and I'll send it to you.

I made some other refinements too:

I found a better Icon (extractes from the main exe)
Now it copies the 2 files stderr.txt and stdout.txt from the App to the Data folder (these are some standard SDL files I found in other Apps too)
It uses the Language from the PortableApps.com Platform and if it cant find it uses the local LANG variable
I removed the MUI stuff as I think it not longer necessary.
I Changed the Launcher version to 1.5 because it shoudnt be the Applications version but the launcher version.

One question (just curious) : Why do you have the installer not remove the App folder?

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January 11, 2010 - 7:42am

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Languages

Where do you get the language files? I think that is at least part of what is messing me up. I don't have all of the language files on my install, and I don't know where do download them.

Thanks

January 11, 2010 - 8:11am

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Install

When I installed it locally (to get the files), it asked me if I wanted to install al the languages too and I said yes. That's how I got them.

Now they are in my X:\PortableApps\FreeCivPortable\App\FreeCiv\share\locale folder and I can use the LANG variable to set the language or use the system one (german in my case).

EDIT: I have these language files in my install: ar, ca, cs, da, de, el, en_GB, eo, es, et, fa, fi, fr, he, hu, it, ja, ko, lt, nb, nl, no, pl, pt, pt_BP, ro, ru, sv, tr, uk, zh_CN

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January 11, 2010 - 8:21am

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Cool, thanks

I need to update to the latest version of Free Civ anyway. You mentions something about the installer not deleting the App directory; What did you mean by that?

January 11, 2010 - 8:53am

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In your \App\AppInfo folder,

In your \App\AppInfo folder, there is an installer.ini which says RemoveAppDirectory=false and I wondered why you put it there.

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January 12, 2010 - 8:27am

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Copy/Paste

I created this launcher by copying and pasting, so it is there because the original app had it. I don't know what it does. Should it be removed?

January 12, 2010 - 9:06am

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yes

I'd remove it.

Normally the installer removes the /App and the /Other folders before it copies the new files but this tells him to net remove the App folder. I'd say its better to have it removed as there might be files in the new version interfering with not-removed old files from a previous version.

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January 12, 2010 - 8:44am

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Refinements

Please send your changes to me and I will update:

Where did you get improved icon? The one I used was extracted from the main executable as well. Maybe I just need to update.
How do you get the language from the PA.com platform?
What MUI stuff isn't necessary any more?
Where did you set the launcher version? Really the launcher hasn't even reached 1.0 yet because it hasn't been officially released

Thanks for the help!

January 12, 2010 - 9:19am

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how

can I contact you?
I think the easiest way is if you drop me an email and then I send you the updated version.

I got the Icon from the main exe. Maybe they increased its resolution...
The Platform has several variables (PortableApps.comLocaleWinName, PortableApps.comLocaleCode2, PortableApps.comLocaleglibc and others)where it lets you get the language from.
On line 59-62, your launcher has MUI stuff which I removed because I think its not necessary any more (other launchers don't have it either)
Line 25 says "!define VER "2.9.1.0"". That's the version of the launcher. It has nothing to do with the App being officially released or not. The current version of Johns launchers is 1.6.6 or something like that. I set it to 1.5 but you can basically set it to what you want. Its just for the dev to keep track of what changes he made to the launcher.

Glad I can help!

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January 12, 2010 - 10:55am

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Sent email

I sent an email to the address listed in your user profile.

January 12, 2010 - 10:58am

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Icon

Isn't line 61 necessary to set the icon for the launcher?

January 12, 2010 - 3:36pm

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I think

its only necessary if you need the MUI (=Modern User Interface). Our Launchers dont display anything except for the splash screen which has its own plugin. The Icon is specified in line 61.

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January 11, 2010 - 9:49am

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Thanks dagardner for

Thanks dagardner for continuing to develop this. It's a great game. Looking forward to the update and for the test team to promote it to Pre-Release status

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January 15, 2010 - 7:45am

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Test Release 4 now available

I've updated to the latest version of Freeciv and added language support. Thanks to Simeon for the help on the language support!

January 21, 2010 - 5:51am

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Critique

Tested Freeciv 2.1.10 Dev Test 4

Freeciv is multilingual and the non-english files are big. You could use an installer.ini and make the non-english files optional. (Look at Dia or Gimp for instance)
appinfo.ini: Category should be Games, Language should be Multilingual
appicon.ico: more formats are required
folder DefaultData could be deleted, it's empty
FreecivPortable.ini and *.nsi: May I suggest using common Ini-Strings. (FreecivDirectory, SettingsDirectory, FreecivExecutable, AdditionalParameters, DisableSplashScreen instead of AppDir, DataDir, AppEXE, Params, Splash). It would be easier for the users and less confusing.
Readme.txt is missing
FreecivPortable.nsi:
- IMHO, remove the stdout.txt and stderr.txt renaming. Both files are just logs (created and overwritten on each launch) and thus not considered as important Data
- The language set in FreecivPortable.ini will never be used. The launcher reads LANG in line 92, but it always overwrites it in line 102
- It would be easier to use the environment variable "PortableApps.comLocaleglibc" for the language switching code (Freeciv is an GTK app). Also a check is missing, whether the language files /folders exist or not before setting the environment variable "LANG". If you don't want to reinvent the wheel take a look at Gimp or Dia for a working solution.
- line 143: I don't know if KillProcDLL::KillProc "$APPEXE" should be used in that place. Maybe just "Abort".
a file "Data.sav.gz" is created in my FreecivPortable folder.

Ok, that's all for now.

January 21, 2010 - 7:09am

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Good stuff

Thanks for the feedback Bart.S, I'll take a look at these soon.

February 11, 2010 - 10:26am

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Updated installer

7d. KillProcDLL::KillProc "$APPEXE" doesn't make sense on line 143 because that line is for when $APPEXE doesn't exist.

8. I didn't find Data.save.gz. EDIT: I did find my save files, and they are where I would expect them to be unders Data\settings. Please double check to make sure that isn't an old save file. By default, Freeciv saves games in the user directory rather than in the app directory.

February 11, 2010 - 11:01am

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Data.save.gz

Hmm, I can't reproduce it now. All savegames are at Data\settings\.freeciv\saves, but Data.save.gz is located beside the FreecivPortable.exe. It has the same date and filesize (but different name) as my first real savegame. Strange. Really strange. Maybe it was a first time and never came back bug

February 11, 2010 - 11:08am

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Yay! I like bugs that just go

Yay! I like bugs that just go away. Let me know if you see it again. Thanks again for the good feedback!

January 29, 2010 - 4:35am

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THX!!!!

I love this game! Will test it on the weekend!

thank you very much for this portable version!!

March 4, 2010 - 10:50am

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Updated to Freeciv 2.2.0

Sorry it took so long.

March 4, 2010 - 6:16pm

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Thanks for the update :)

Thanks for the update

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June 30, 2010 - 8:29pm

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Nudge

Hey dagardner

Hope you don't mind but thought I'd tap you on the shoulder to let you know FreeCiv has been updated. The new 2.2.1 introduces over a 100 bug fixes and improvements.

Thanks again for this game

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July 1, 2010 - 7:07am

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Don't mind

I don't mind, thanks for letting me know. I've been keeping track of updates via RSS feed, but I didn't see that come through. I'll see if I can get an update in the next week or so.

July 1, 2010 - 7:54am

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Thanks :)

Thanks

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+1 I would definitely like to

I would definitely like to see 2.2.1 released! Thank you!

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