Stellarium Portable 0.9.1 Development Test 2 (Testers Needed)

I'll test when I get home, or if Patrick or Ryan start hosting you. Mediafire is blocked here.

Works great, leaves nothing behind. I think its just about ready for prime time. Nice Work

Everything looks great, there's just a few last things.

• You can't remove John's copyright from the launcher and readme, it's his base work to. Just add your copyright after his.
• It's best to have the program run windowed on start, and then let the user decide. So place config.ini in the App\DefaultData directory, and if nothing exists in the Data\settings directory, have it copied from DefaultData. You can just use that code from another app.

  The info the should be in the config.ini in DefaultData is:

  [video]
fullscreen = false

• The AppInfo name says Juice Portable.
• This one's small, but in the installer, you don't need to comment out the addons directory, you can just change it's value to "".

That's it. Awesome work Kevin, after those changes it's basicially ready to go. You're best to contact the Stellerium developers and ask them if they can add a switch like -settings to change the location of the Stellarium settings so nobody runs into problems accessing %APPDATA%.

P.S. You didn't close your unordered list tag in the main post.

I've been using the standalone Stellarium 0.9.1 with no problems, so today I downloaded Stellarium Portable 0.9.1 DT 1.

I think it actually started up fine the first time, but every time since, as Stellarium is loading its star catalogs, NGC catalogs, nebula textures, constellation art, etc, the PortableApps Development/Test splash screen is trying to get in front so there's a really annoying flickering, but it also slows down the loading process substantially. The splash screen continues its flickering process for about 5s after the sky is displayed, again trying to get in front as Stellarium is updating the screen.

I think there's a way to disable the splash screen, but I can't find it... The appinfo.ini doesn't have anything, the data\settings\config.ini is Stellarium's.

Anyway, it's totally repeatable, and doesn't matter whether I start it from PStart, or directly by clicking on StellariumPortable.exe.

Jeff

Its such a great App!
Leaves nothing - works well - ready for prime time?
One thing though: It would be nice if you could launch the cmd window hidden. Take a look at my Assaultcube launcher or I can post the line you need for this.

And the readme needs some work. there are some options the readme says the ini would do but the launcher wont (like AdditionalParameters).

i downloaded this app a while ago and still use it today my astronomy grade has gone up sence i started using it there arnt any glitches that iv found my only complaint is that the loading thing brings up a white box that says TEST on it in an update are you going to make a loading screen?

Kevin - Did you want to do an official release before the switch or wait?

My apologies if this test is a little late, but I did test this under vista ultimate SP1 and didn't have any problems and nothing obvious was left behind.

I have a splash for Stellarium Portable just about ready. We'll ditch it from the launcher and do it like GIMP in the app itself since there is a pretty bad strobing effect with the NSIS splash as Stellarium launches. Just drop it into the textures directory. Here's the actual file:
https://portableapps.com/files/forumimages/logo24bits.png

The comet tail needs some tweaking. Jwyanze is taking a stab at it at the moment, so we may have a new one for you soon.