UPDATE: It's now been released:
https://portableapps.com/portablegaim
I'd like a few folks to test out the new Beta 2 release of Portable Gaim before I set it live and announce it. You can grab it here:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/portablegaim/portable_gaim_1.5_beta2_...
New in this release:
- New directory structure allowing for shared GTK
- New settings location (settings folder)
- Off The Record encryption built in by default
- Default smiley sets included
- Splash screen
Drop a note back to this forum with any observations.
Thanks!
John
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Hi,
Thanks for the great job, all these portable apps are just great.
There's just one think to fix for this release of portable Gaim (in my opinion :p) :
I'd like to share the GTK lib between my apps (Gimp and Gaim for exemple), but i see that, for Gaim, the GTK lib MUST be in the GAIM folder (the portablegaim.exe folder)....
So how to share this lib ??
Is there a way to place the GTK lib in an other folder, for exemple :
USBDrive:\programs\libs\gtk\....
USBDrive:\programs\gaim\....
USBDrive:\programs\gimp\....
Tahnks
Yes, with the INI file. An example is in PortableGaimCode. Details in the reademe.txt. The GTK folder can be anywhere.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
I have seen this "INI" file, I tryed to change the value of "GTKDirectory", but this value doesn't change anything.
I tryed to place the gtk folder in a "USBDrive:\programs\libs" folder, so i made this :
GTKDirectory=../libs/gtk/bin
This doesn't work (error message telling me that the folder USBDrive:\programs\gtk\bin doesn't exist)
I tryed also this :
GTKDirectory=gtk2/bin
(and of course a renamed the folder gtk to gtk2)
Same error message.
Looks like the folder of the gtk lib (gtk\bin) is hardcoded in the starter.
any explanation ? something I did wrong ??
(I'v just downloaded one more time the beta2 version and tryed, same problem)
Thanks
I just found what was my problem :
I didn't put the ini file in the .exe folder !!
I'm sorry for wasting your time.
Now it works perfectly !!
Thanks a lot
No worries on posting. You post will probably help someone else out. Glad it's working for you.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
I took a quick look in "PortableGaim.nsi".
This file seems to be the source code for the .exe file.
So I tried to find an explaination for my probleme, and i found this :
You use the variable : $EXEDIR
To find the INI file.
But I couldn't see were this variable is declared. Maybe it is somewhere (I don't know this programing language) but I just found the declarations :
!define DEFAULTAPPDIR "gaim"
or
!define DEFAULTSETTINGSDIR "settings"
Maybe this is a start of an explaination, no ??
what is this language ??
And how can I try to compile this file myself, so that I can help finding the probleme ?
thanks
Hi Mister V,
the application used to build the PortableGaim-launcher is Nullsoft Scriptable Install System.
With NSIS you can compile your own (modified) PortableGaim-launcher from the (modified) PortableGaim.nsi-source.
Cya Ryushi
thank for this information, I'll download this application.
Looks great
How do I update my gaim that was includied in the suite version. I tried copying the folders into the same directory as the version their and the .exe in the same directory as the other, but nothing happens.
Stick with Beta 1 in the Suite for now. Beta 2 of the Suite will include an updated version of Gaim. At the root, they BOTH use Gaim 1.5, so you're not really missing anything functionality-wise.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!