I tried searching around, checked the "Source", and copying the INI files everywhere where it makes sense. Sadly, no use at all.
As far as I know I have a "DisableSplashScreen=true" option in the *.ini file. If the Data/settings/*.INI fails, I should just copy it to the .exe launcher. Rite'?
What else could I do? App just comes up instantly, and I have to click all the splash screens. REALLY annoying.
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Please, do exactly what it says in readme.txt as referenced in Other\Source\PidginPortable.ini. Copy it next to PidginPortable.exe and set the value, making sure that you've got the correct INI section heading as well, exactly as in Other\Source\PidginPortable.ini.
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Just did that. No use. Any other ideas?
Do this exactly.
1. Delete everything in PidginPortable but the data folder. If you haven't set Pidgin up yet, delete the whole PidginPortable folder. The data folder contains your settings, if they exist.
2. Reinstall the latest Pidgin.
3. Go into the directory other\source in PidginPortable.
4. Right-click PidginPortable.ini, choose Copy.
5. Back up to the PidginPortable folder that has the app, data, and other folders.
6. Right click some empty space, choose Paste.
7. Open this new PidginPortable.ini in notepad.
8. Change False to True after DisableSplashScreen=.
9. Save the file and close it.
10. Run PidginPortable.exe. You should see no splash. If you do... something's very wrong. I can't be using Pidgin from this terminal but since the new version came out, I'll be reinstalling it at home. I'll remove my PidginPortable.ini (which disables the splash screen, for the last version) and install, and follow my own steps to see if I can do it or not.
Chris, if you have the latest Pidgin, can you disable the splash screen on your end?
Works works. I just did the worst thing. Read the last part of the line. "False". Already read the 'command' thousand times, and I thought its "ShowSplashScreen" or something. Show it? False? then no. Why I keep seeing it?
And yeah.. I discovered. That it was FALSE, it was working 100% ok, and I was the dumbf...
Sorry guys that I was wasting your time and thanks really much for the help you gave me.
The first rule of .ini files is to watch out for double negatives. "DisableSplashScreen=false" is illogical because it's a double negative; it should be "SplashScreen=true", but then it would probably be in violation of some rule. (Not just PAF, other .ini files are confusing, too.)
Glad to be helpful, not a waste of time, I've typed that out and said it over the phone so many times, I could have typed that out in my sleep.
Works for me !
PidginPortable.ini
locate it in the 'PidginPortable' folder, as where 'PidginPortable.exe' is located
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