Stellarium Portable 0.9.0 Pre-Release 2 (Testers Needed) *Outdated*

I once tried that myself and will test it tomorrow...

Would you mind posting just the launcher, please. Or else I can't test this for a couple days.

Forgot to report back.

You need to add

RMDir '$PROFILE\Stellarium'

At the end otherwise the stellarium folder is left there. But it will only remove it if it's empty anyways so it won't effect local settings.

Also, the outfile should now be ..\..\{$NAME}.paf.exe, and check the latest Mozilla Apps for the path to the icon in the launcher as well.

works nicely thanks
ought to be helpful in Geoscience
~regards alpha1

it only flashed a console window an that was it.

win xp pros sp2 limited account.
And it left '$PROFILE\Stellarium' behind but Patrick already said that.
And the launcher link doesnt work

Edit:

And i think you forgot to tell the launcher to rename the backup of the local settings. So line 78 should be
Rename `$PROFILE\Stellarium\config.ini.bak` $PROFILE\Stellarium\config.ini`
instead of
Rename `$PROFILE\Stellarium\config.ini` `$PROFILE\Stellarium\config.ini`.

And you´d have to delete the $PROFILE\Stellarium\config.ini.bak.

Would it be possible for the Stellarium Portable launcher to search & delete C:\Stellarium from the computer before it Stellarium itself loads up.

This is a known issue with the program itself & NOT with Stellarium Portable. For some reason, the program looks for its configuration file at C:\Stellarium first BEFORE looking where the program is stored itself. If C:\Stellarium doesn't exist, Stellarium will create the folder. Since there's nothing in that folder, the program just fails & quits without launching.

I know it's not necessarily the portable programmer's job to make a fix (or a workaround) for a program's known issue, but it would be greatly appreciated.

Here's the changes that will get this one closed to a release. Many are small and tedious, but worth it.

• First off, update to the KompoZer installer, and change the stuff inside Basic Info accordingly, and the Pre-Install, and Post-Install stuff, you can probably just remove it unless you need to use that area.
• You can remove the acknowledgments for me from the help file, it wasn't that much.
• Your icon should have only 16, 32, and 48 sizes of both 256, and XP formats. IcoFX is easy enough to use for this, if not GIMP. You can also just download this one I made.
• Add your copyright below John's in the launcher, and change the website from PNotes accordingly, too.


!define NAME "StellariumPortable"
!define FRIENDLYNAME "Stellarium Portable"
!define APP "Stellarium"


Should be changed to:


!define PORTABLEAPPNAME "Stellarium Portable"
!define NAME "StellariumPortable"
!define APPNAME "Stellarium"


You'll need to update those variables in other parts of the launcher now.

• From the release of WinMerge Portable, it looks like our name isn't going beside PortableApps.com in the CompanyName line.
• The outfile should be change too:
  OutFile "..\..\${NAME}.exe"
• The program icon should be changed to:
  Icon "..\..\App\AppInfo\appicon.ico" so you can delete StellariumPortable.ico.
• Add:
  
; Best Compression
SetCompress Auto
SetCompressor /SOLID lzma
SetCompressorDictSize 32
SetDatablockOptimize On

  After the ;=== Runtime Switches.
• We're using the latest version of the splash plugin, so update it and change:
  newadvsplash::wait
  To:
  newadvsplash::stop /WAIT
• The VER variable should be the version of the LAUNCHER, so therefore change 0.9.0.0 to 1.5.3.0
• Use the DevelopmentTest splash on it.
• You need AppSource.txt in the Source dir, just copy the one from the latest KeePass Portable, and you need a readme, too. Copy that from KeePass Portable, too and modify it.
• Copy the Readme.txt from KeePassPortable\App to your App\ directory.
• Add and modify an App\AppInfo\AppInfo.ini from the latest KeePass release.
• Rename App\Stellarium to App\stellarium.
• Go download cleanup.bat, upax.bat, and pangout.bat from here, place them in C:\WINDOWS. Then go download UPX and PNGOUT.exe and place pngout.exe and upx.exe in C:\WINDOWS. Next run the command prompt, and 'cd ..' to go up or 'cd directory\directory' to change to App\stellarium (a fresh unupxed copy of Stellarium) and type 'upax', that will UPX everything very nicely, then type 'pangout' that will compress your PNG's losslessly very slowly, then after that's done a while later, just type 'cleanup' to cleanup all the fun filename created like stellarium.ex~.
• That's about it, there's some new launcher lines for errors and stuff, but you don't have any strings for that in your launcher, so don't worry about it.

Finally, I'd contact the devs to see if they can add or if it already supports specifying a place for the config.ini file using a command line switch.

with the launcher ,too. The new release affords some bugfixes and has changed the config file location for the local version to %appdata%/stellarium.