Portable CAD

Other than the developers over-doing it with the color red, it looks pretty nice. I requested the source. I'll package it up if that checks out OK.

Here's my first crack at it. I'm still waiting to receive an answer on my request of the source, so it just uses the Cademia.exe binary wrapper that it comes with for now. In the future I'll likely bypass that and run the java directly with custom settings.

It runs. It will use a Java Portable install from CommonFiles (see link above) if it exists. It hasn't been tested thoroughly. I'll create a Development Test post once I receive the source and play around with it some more.

Download here. Note this is hosted on a local XP machine, so limited connections. Please be patient if for some reason there is a run on downloads.

Edit: Fixed typos, download is now Rev_2

- Remove space in Folder created: use "CADEMIAPortable", not "CADEMIA Portable" (change line 26 i.e. the SHORTNAME to "CADEMIAPortable")
Fixed. (Typo in the installer)

- Why are their two copies of jh.jar included?
- Same question for the help.cademia_plugin file?
- Look at other apps because I believe if you have an App\DefaultData directory, the normal action is to copy the files out of that folder to where they go on install or initial launch. That way there aren't two copies of the same file in the download. (not 100% sure of that)
Fixed (Ran the installer in place on my testing version, so it had already been copied)

- What's the updateversion.vbs file used for (I'm a VBScript c0der @ work for small projects like installing printers and whatnot)
Helper script to automatically update the version on all files that need it on new releases. I left it in since it's tiny and may be useful to other developers.

- CADEMIAPortable.nsi looks to be old version. Bump up to newer launcher codebase (if possible...I'm not doing that myself yet). Look at some of the newer DevTest releases that have less code that needs to be hacked out of their launcher .nsi files.
- Leftover GnuCash text on line 2 in CADEMIAPortable.nsi
-The launcher has "GnuCash" left over in it, yet you credit the use of the Firefox launcher in the readme.txt was used as the basis for the launcher. Is that true?
What exactly seems out of date? It was created from a mix of several of the newer releases, with a lot of stuff like comments, Readme etc cut from GnuCash Portable since I'd already written that (thus the line 2 typo, and Readme.txt mentioning Firefox). I actually can't remember which app's launcher I started from. It was definitely one released within the last month or so. They all seem to be slightly different. Everything that's in there is in there for a reason, not just left over from a cut & paste. The only old thing I noticed was I was using the old newadvsplash plugin, that's been fixed.

-javaportable.ini is created by the Java Portablizer so why is your version included in the \Source\Other dir? Point being it's contents are dependent on the version of Java installed and copied to \CommonFiles\Java so your file is just "extra" IMO.
Removed. I copied this in thinking I may need it since it was in my OpenOfficePortable Source folder (the last released app that uses CommonFiles\Java), but I didn't end up needing any of that Java code.

-Overall solid first effort here on PoratableApps.com as all the required files seem to be in place. Welcome!
Thanks! GnuCash was actually my first effort. By "First Crack" I meant my first try at this app.

- As far as the app itself goes...I ran it and can't add a line or anything. Also can't do "Save" or "Save As" and can't close the program by clicking on the "X" (like normal). I had to kill the app via Task Manager. Using Windows XP SP2 here.
Edit: I did get the program to run and add some limes and whatnot. Very quirky app.
Hmm.. I haven't had any problems. Any ideas what caused it at first?

Yes, I saw it in one of the menus.