Hi!
I am trying to make TeXnicCenter portable (and make it work with miktex-portable), I have managed to make it start just fine, but since it saves most of the settings to registry I have stumbled upon problems.
The registry key values has directory paths such as:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ToolsCenter\TeXnicCenter\Profiles\LaTeX => PDF] "LatexPath"="C:\\ProgramCopies\\miktex-portable\\miktex\\bin\\pdflatex.exe" "BibTexPath"="C:\\ProgramCopies\\miktex-portable\\miktex\\bin\\bibtex.exe" "MakeIndexPath"="C:\\ProgramCopies\\miktex-portable\\miktex\\bin\\makeindex.exe" ...
As one can see I must now somehow replace these paths "C:\\ProgramCopies\\miktex-portable\\" with something lets say starting directory upon startup?
It would be easy to do if I could run a script before importing settings.reg and after saving the settings.reg, so I could manipulate the registry file myself.
Thanks.
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I'm pretty sure the PA.c Launcher can handle all of that with a combination of RegistryKeys, RegistryValueWrite and RegistryValueBackupDelete
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Use RegistryKeys to get it in place, then RegistryValueWrite to write it (because it is processed after the keys are loaded). Then the values %PAL:AppDir% etc. can be used.
Oh, and remember to put REG_SZ: in front of the value; otherwise it will recognise %PAL as the type and fail. So
HKCU\Software\ToolsCenter\TeXnicCenter\Profiles\LaTeX => PDF\LatexPath=REG_SZ:%PAL:AppDir%\miktex\bin\pdflatex.exeor things like that.I am a Christian and a developer and moderator here.
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