CADEMIA Portable 1.4.1 Development Test

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I installed this version of Cademia over the previous one installed on my FlashDrive and, when launching it, received the following error message:
Path=c:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
Clicking "OK" opened up a Command Window with the path in the Command Window being;
G:\PortableApps\Cademia\App\Cademia>
but no "launch" on Cademia.
Executing Cademia.exe "manually" from the command line brings up Cademia with the following error message -
"Plugin 'G:\PortableApps\CADEMIAPortable\App\Cademia/plugins/CADEMIA_HELP_1.0/help.cademia_plugin' does not exist!"
It looks like you need to add the cademia.exe to the launch command and insert the help plugin.

Also, when I attempted to load an AutoCad drawing I got the following message:
java.io.StreamCorruptedException: invalid stream header: 41433130

I don't believe that I had this problem with the earlier version of Cademia.
Hope these findings help.

I can't get this to run my portable version of Java. I have dropbox, which is an online storage application, and the folders gets put into "My Documents". Maybe it's seeing the launch from the C:\ and automatically using the non-portable version of Java, but I don't have a computer without Java to test it on.

I believe I setup portable Java correctly. I installed the .exe of Java Portablizer to PortableApps\CommonFiles\JavaPortablizer and I can see all of the runtime files under the \bin\ and \lib\ folders.

*EDIT: Has anyone been able to get this to successfully run off of a portable version of Java?

The the Java Portablizer link seems to be gone or wrong

the right link i on Open Office's support page:
https://portableapps.com/downloads/java_portablizer/Java_Portablizer_1.1...

leaves "camedia.ini" in docs and settings/user
here's what it says

#CADEMIA
#Wed May 21 00:45:43 EDT 2008
Kernel.DialogPlugins\ (*.cademia_plugin)=G\:\\PortableApps\\CADEMIAPortable\\App\\Cademia\\plugins\\CADEMIA_HELP_1.0
Kernel.DialogY=220
Kernel.DialogX=164 

Hello everybody,
I am one of the developers of CADEMIA. We are quite interested in a portable version of CADEMIA. I want to give you some hints.

1. The plugins do not have to be stored in the folder 'Data' because they store no additional information. They can be added and removed manually and belong to the application.

2. All personal settings will normally be stored in the '..\Documents and Settings\user\cademia.ini' file. The start parameter -i "AbsolutePathToFile" allows to assign a new property file. In CADEMIA 1.4.x there has to exist at least a zero byte file. In the upcoming version 1.5 it will be created automatically if it does not exist at the specified path.

If you have any other requests to CADEMIA you can also post them in our forum at http://www.cademia.org/

Keep up the good work,
Torsten.

The new version 1.5 has been released on November 11th, 2008. DXF import and export! Save as PDF. Havn't tried all features but I think this deserve an update for the PAF version. Could somebody make one? pleeeeease?

I installed per the instructions. I tried both the default location for the Java Portabilizer (/portableapps/javaportabilizer) and the implied location per this page (/portable apps/commonfiles/javaportablizer.) I also tried dragging the contents of .../javaportablizer up one level to be directly in /portableapps/commonfiles. In each case Camedia refuses to launch, with a message that Camedia needs Java to run.
I also tried renaming "javaportablizer" to "java". Same result.
I dragged the contents of the bin folder to commonfiles. Same result.

Any thoughts about what I am doing wrong?
Thanks
JK

Follow-up: I reinstalled JRE on the host machine. It had been there, but can't say that something did not trash it. After the install, Camedia loads. Still don't know what I did wrong for the JavaPortabilizer, and that's necessary if this is going to be portable!

any news?