VisualBoyAdvance-M Portable Development Test 2

I'll look at this tonight, report back on any issues, then add you to the Development Test list.

Ok I noticed a few issues with this one. It's fine that you use your own scripting style, but keeping things in the same setup as John's does make it easier to compare/follow along. that's not a big deal though.

Issues:
you are using an outdated newadvsplash command to hide the splash screen. It should now be "newadvsplash::stop /WAIT" (no quotes)

your code for updating the ini file is very inefficient. it can easily be replaced with something like

UpdateLocations:
		;=== Update files for new location
		${GetRoot} $EXEDIR $0
		ReadINIStr $1 "$SETTINGSDIRECTORY\VBAMPortableSettings.ini" "VBAMPortableSettings" "LastDriveLetter"
		StrCmp $1 "" StoreCurrentDriveLetter
		StrCmp $1 $0 StoreCurrentDriveLetter
		IfFileExists "$PROGRAMDIRECTORY\vba.ini" "" DisplaySplash
		${ReplaceInFile} "$PROGRAMDIRECTORY\vba.ini" "$1\" "$0\"
		Delete "$PROGRAMDIRECTORY\vba.ini.old"

I recommend looking at my Synkron Portable launcher for an example of how to fully implement this.

I never knew about this fork, I am now enlightened. Thanks for sharing!

Zach, this looks good. Here's the small stuff I caught.

• In the root directory:
  • In the help.html file, fix that MPlayer typo (you knew that. :)) and remove the indent on Acknowledgements.
• In App:
  • Add Readme.txt from another app.
• In App\AppInfo:
  • The appicon.ico should only contain 48, 32, and 16 pixel sizes in both 256 (XP) and (32 bit) 8 color formats.
  • Update your appinfo.ini to the latest version (0.9.8) from a recently release app. Also change the website to PortableApps.com\DevelopmentTest or /NamePortable.
• In App\VisualBoyAdvance:
  • Put vba.ini in App\DefaultData and have it copied to Data\settings if nothing exists in Data\settings.
  • Possibly rename that folder to include -M.
• In Other\Source:
  • Add AppSource.txt from another application.
  • Add your copyright below Johns in Readme.txt.
  • Change the 3 times Readme.txt mentions SumatraPDF to VisualBoyAdvance-M
  • In the source, the VER is for the launcher, which is about 1.5.7.0.
  • Change the 200 on line 210 to 0 as we're dropping splash fades.
  • Change the LegalCopyright in the source to PortableApps.com & Contributers.

And don't ever tell me PAF doesn't matter until it's official. Pshh.

P.S. I have this minor bug where the program doesn't launch for me and the process of the exe or the portable exe aren't running.

Just downloaded the test 2 version, but when I double click it to start, it comes up with alpha or beta screen then doesn't load...
I even checked the task manager and didn't find it loading anywhere.

But where are you getting the builds?

I thought they didn't have a public build yet.

I think VBA-M will simply not run if the PC lacks DirectX 9 -- I attempted to launch it directly (without using the Portable Apps launcher app) and got an error message saying that a .dll (I forget which one) was missing. Using the launcher gets me the "development" splash screen, then nothing more.

is this project still active?

thanks for your ingenuity to create the emulator,
but I can not download an error in your page,
I would like to revise it to be able to download your page,

thanks ...

and please Tell Me When and can be discharged

thanks

SVN 470? That is so old. Update to SVN 781. It's the current version for now. And this website is the original.