[Fixed] Java Class Folder/Archive settings are lost

Well thank both of you for the replies and coding efforts!!!

I had no idea anyone had acknowledged this issue/suggestion and was actually working towards a solution. I was trying to be solutions-oriented here, and perhaps I was fishing for a reply and I'm sorry. I'm very accustomed to workarounds, and I don't expect support for obscure uses of an application. But Base is now celebrated as a premier, desk-top, front-end development tool and users increasingly expect multi-user access to their data (like MS Access) -- which is enabled by client-server configuration.

I understand "portable" goals and believe we're both trying to provide users with the necessary workarounds under the circumstances, whether through user-permissions or a secondary shortcut. sBase.exe is only used for subsequent OOP starts -- after the portable launcher is used first -- in each portable environment, as outlined. That solution doesn't break portability per-se because it uses the portable launcher to create the xml settings first, and then hands the duties over to sBase.exe to keep the settings intact for that environment. Are you saying sBase.exe writes to the registry or creates other tracks on the machine in this case? If so, that's really a secondary issue here, and it's not all that uncommon in the "portable" world, albeit much less common in the PortableApps.com world. But I would like to know if sBase.exe lays tracks on the host machine...?

I'm sorry but I can't offer a coded solution. My xml parsing experience is very limited and involves OOo-Basic utilizing pre-filled Base rowsets to identify and parse known iCalendar headers, tags, and footers. But I never completed the functionality (parsing) because I found it wasn't necessary for the particular application. I guess I could post what I've got.

And now that I think about it, I didn't mean parse the xml...I meant parse the singular ClassPath ASCII string in order to identify each folder or filename before each semi-colon ( ; ) in the string. It's all one string in my experience, so perhaps that simplifies things since it's just a matter of looking for the semicolons and grabbing the characters right-to-left (backwards) until you reach a forward-slash. In other words, each folder or filename is located one after another in a single ClassPath string and uniquely between a forward-slash and semi-colon. The folders don't have a .jar extension. I hope that helps with the difficulty.

I've fully embraced the portable model since 2006 and led countless satisfied users your way. I'm greatly indebted to the leadership and coding efforts provided by John and dedicated individuals such as yourself. This is a heartfelt thank you!