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November 24, 2010 - 6:28am

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[Released] Gramps Portable 3.2.5 Development Test 2

"The next portable generation for research" or "Another one bites the dust"

Application: Gramps
Category: Education
Description: Gramps is a genealogy program that is both intuitive for hobbyists and feature-complete for professional genealogists. Every person has their own story but they are also part of a collective family history. Gramps gives you the ability to record the many details of an individual’s life as well as the complex relationships between various people, places and events. All of your research is kept organized, searchable and as precise as you need it to be. (from the homepage)
License: GPL 2, or later
Language: Multilingual

Download Gramps Portable 3.2.5 Development Test 2 [15.3MB download / 48.1-80.3MB installed]
(MD5: a5dfbfcb4b4e75c6afd9f0480a8a07d4)

Release Notes:

Development Test 2 (2010-12-02): older pycairo

pycairo 1.4.12

Development Test 1 (2010-11-24): Initial release

GTK2 2.16.6, Python 2.6.6
pygtk 2.16.0, pygobject 2.26.0, pycairo 1.8.10

A previous test version of Gramps Portable by Ormus could be found here.

Acknowledgments:

Thanks to Patrick Patience for hosting
Thanks to all devs for pieces of code
Thanks in advance to all testers.

Enjoy!

November 24, 2010 - 6:51am

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SWEET

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November 24, 2010 - 10:09pm

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Excellent

Hi Bart.S

Great stuff. So far it works for me on Win XP SP3.

Have you contacted the Gramps Developers to have the Program hosted on Gramps.

You may want to also announce this on the gramps-windows mailing list so other windows users can test it.

Once again Thank you

Eisa

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November 25, 2010 - 9:09am

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Thanks for the feedback!

No, I haven't contacted the Gramps developers.
Feel free to promote Gramps Portable wherever you want!

November 25, 2010 - 11:11pm

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Je viens d'installer sur mon

Je viens d'installer sur mon ordi et ma clef USB, parfait

Je n'ai plus de difficulté pour faire fonctionner Gramps sous windows vista.

Merci, continuez

[Google translation below - mod Chris]

I just installed on my computer and my USB stick, perfect

I have more difficulty to run Gramps windows vista.

Thank you, keep

Cordialement

November 26, 2010 - 4:56am

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Mais, c'est avec plaisir!

You're welcome!

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November 26, 2010 - 11:38am

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Or completely screws up the

Or completely screws up the sense.
(je n'ai plus de difficulté... => I have no difficulty anymore...)

November 28, 2010 - 5:43pm

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RE: Thanks for the feedback!

Ok and looks like I won't need to as already on the GRAMPS wiki.

Excellent stuff

November 26, 2010 - 3:04pm

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Eek!

Hopefully Patricks server won't explode: The last test version of Gramps Portable by Ormus has been downloaded over 100,000 times (#). And now the Gramps wiki Download page links to my release (#).

November 27, 2010 - 6:08am

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Impossible éditer les documents PDF

Impossible éditer les documents .PDF avec cette version.
Les documents sont crées, mais vides.

Traduction Google

Can not edit. PDF documents with this version.
The documents are created, but empty.

Cordialement

November 27, 2010 - 10:42am

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Ouch, dependency hell

Seems that pycairo 1.8.10 wasn't the best choice!
You could replace it by pycairo 1.4.12. Let's try a downgrade. Extract the files and place them like below:

X:\PortableApps\GRAMPSPortable\App\Python26\include\pycairo\pycairo.h
X:\PortableApps\GRAMPSPortable\App\Python26\lib\pkgconfig\pycairo.pc
X:\PortableApps\GRAMPSPortable\App\Python26\Lib\site-packages\cairo\_cairo.pyd
X:\PortableApps\GRAMPSPortable\App\Python26\Lib\site-packages\cairo\__init__.py
X:\PortableApps\GRAMPSPortable\App\Python26\Lib\site-packages\cairo\__init__.pyc
X:\PortableApps\GRAMPSPortable\App\Python26\Lib\site-packages\cairo\__init__.pyo

November 28, 2010 - 3:08am

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PDF

desolé, je ne sais pas faire, incompétent en informatique.

Cordialement

November 28, 2010 - 8:36am

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I'll do a new test release.

But this will take some time (maybe next week).
In the meantime you could try the fix yourself:

Download pycairo-1.4.12-2.win32-py2.6.exe
Open 7-Zip Portable, browse to the downloaded file and extract it to a folder of your choice (e.g. X:\pycairo-1.4.12-2.win32-py2.6\)

Copy the files

X:\pycairo-1.4.12-2.win32-py2.6\DATA\include\pycairo\pycairo.h
X:\pycairo-1.4.12-2.win32-py2.6\DATA\lib\pkgconfig\pycairo.pc
X:\pycairo-1.4.12-2.win32-py2.6\PLATLIB\cairo\__init__.py
X:\pycairo-1.4.12-2.win32-py2.6\PLATLIB\cairo\_cario.pyd

to the paths specified in my last post above.

Delete the files

X:\PortableApps\GRAMPSPortable\App\Python26\Lib\site-packages\cairo\__init__.pyc
X:\PortableApps\GRAMPSPortable\App\Python26\Lib\site-packages\cairo\__init__.pyo

Delete folder of your choice again (X:\pycairo-1.4.12-2.win32-py2.6\)
Start GRAMPS Portable

Hope that helps!

November 28, 2010 - 11:44pm

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Je préfère attendre vos

Je préfère attendre vos corrections.

Cordialement

November 29, 2010 - 11:18pm

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Before starting: StrCpy

Before starting:

StrCpy $EnchantExisted "false"
		IfFileExists "$APPDATA\enchant\*.*" 0 LanguageSwitch
		;Okay, so this is a issue I found.  It only exists when using the spellcheck plugin.  The method to fix this is the same as the GTK stuff, but maybe with some extra love
			StrCpy $EnchantExisted "True" ;could set to any other value . . . 
			Rename "$APPDATA\enchant" "$APPDATA\enchant-backup-by-Geany-Portable"

At close:

	StrCmp $EnchantExisted "false" +2 0
					IfFileExists "$APPDATA\enchant-backup-by-Geany-Portable\*.*" 0 +3
					RmDir /r "$APPDATA\enchant" ;nothing of worth is in this directory
					Rename "$APPDATA\enchant-backup-by-Geany-Portable" "$APPDATA\enchant"

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November 30, 2010 - 4:51am

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Thanks, Oliver!

Hmmm, I think that way it could cause issues. At least if users run multiple apps using enchant at the same time. The backup could be messed up.

RmDir /r "$APPDATA\enchant" ;nothing of worth is in this directory

Well, the spellchecker plugin for Gramps store the personal dictionaries in this directory. Say you add a few words, a file is created including these words (e.g. en_GB.dic).
Ok, we need a better solution. An environment variable to redirect this folder would be the best choice, but I'm not sure if there is already one.

November 30, 2010 - 7:07am

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Pidgin?

How does Pidgin Portable handle the enchant spellchecker? Or doesn't it at all?

November 30, 2010 - 1:18pm

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Didn't check

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November 30, 2010 - 7:49am

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Uh oh,

AbiWord Portable uses 'RMDir /r "$APPDATA\enchant"'. Wow, just throwing user dictionaries into trash is the official portable way right now?
I won't go that way. :evil:

November 30, 2010 - 1:22pm

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AbiWord Portable uses 'RMDir

AbiWord Portable uses 'RMDir /r "$APPDATA\enchant"'. Wow, just throwing user dictionaries into trash is the official portable way right now?

Well, no. For instance, Geany adds the extra words to the local dictionary that I use, which I keep in data\settings.

This mirrors what use to have to happen with qt\trolltech keys. You had to shut them down in the order that they were started.

I won't go that way.

Probably shouldn't. But at this point, I'm not sure what could be done differently. You kind of need an outside source (like the platform) to accept some variables that we can let our launchers ping back to.

I'm sure that there is a good solution, but it would HAVE to become part of the standard and we'd have to do some major rewrites I think for it to work.

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November 30, 2010 - 1:56pm

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Easy solution ;-)

Spell-checking in GRAMPS is unsupported! It's not portable (right now). Hehe
For all other portable apps with enchant: It's a bug.

November 30, 2010 - 2:28pm

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Spell-checking in GRAMPS is

Spell-checking in GRAMPS is unsupported! It's not portable (right now).

Yes, but it still doesn't fix it.

For all other portable apps with enchant: It's a bug.

Refreshing your dictionary is always a feature!

This is something I think we need to hash out with John via IRC . . . .

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November 30, 2010 - 2:35pm

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Yes, but it still doesn't fix it.

I planned to release a "Spellchecker for Gramps Portable" Plugin, which is ready but won't be published soon. And without that plugin, no enchant -> nothing to fix. 8)
I agree with you that we need a common solution though.

November 30, 2010 - 4:04pm

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customColors

The customColors key is the only Trolltech key which can get muddled; all the rest are cleaned up properly in PAL (pruning the tree in the right way). And like this, the customColors key doesn't really contain anything useful...

I wish I knew why developers did this sort of thing which causes trouble between apps (and in particular for us).

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November 30, 2010 - 4:38pm

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Well, my best theory is that

Well, my best theory is that at this point, I should look into recompiling the enchant libriaries without the APPDATA dependence. The problem is then we have basically a custom port. It would be the first step in getting it merged backup to the main stream, but with the OS stuff who knows how long that would take.

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December 1, 2010 - 8:52am

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g_get_home_dir ()

enchant.c uses g_get_home_dir() and according to this it doesn't pay attention to HOME and returns the real home directory for the user.

December 1, 2010 - 10:44am

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shouldn't be to hard to fix,

shouldn't be to hard to fix, once I can get it to compile

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December 1, 2010 - 5:51am

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Dictionary

I wish I knew why developers did this sort of thing which causes trouble between apps

Well, for a dictionary it makes (a bit) sense. Why having one per app when they could share the same words? But anyway, there should be a possibility to change that behavior (e.g. environment variable).

December 2, 2010 - 6:43am

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Update

New release is up. Big thanks to Patrick!

December 2, 2010 - 6:48am

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Spellchecker

It's not portable, but for those who don't care:

Spellchecker for Gramps Portable Dev Test 1 [2.6MB download / 6.5MB installed]

pyenchant 1.5.3, PyGTKSpell 2.25.3

December 2, 2010 - 9:11am

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Parfait avec la nouvelle

Parfait avec la nouvelle version, les documents PDF sont bien édités.
Merci

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Perfect with the new version, PDF documents are well edited.
Thank you

Cordialement

December 4, 2010 - 5:32am

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Gramps Portable 3.2.5 Development Test 2

Installed this on a USB stick. It runs on my Acer laptop under Windows 7 32 bit and on a Toshiba laptop under Windows 7 64 bit. No trouble downloading a largish (400 names) archive from an earlier version og GRAMPS. Thanks Bart.S

Darryl B

December 4, 2010 - 12:17pm

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You're welcome

Thanks for the test report and welcome at PortableApps.com.

December 5, 2010 - 5:52pm

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[How to] Adding Graphviz and Ghostscript to Gramps Portable

I thought about creating a graphs plugin for Gramps Portable including Graphviz and Ghostscript. Since Graphviz is licensed under the CPL (not GPL compatible) I discarded the idea.
The current launcher has already the ability to deal with Ghostscript and Graphviz, it's just not documented. Call it an easter egg! (Christmas is soon ;-))

Alright, how does it work?
Just copy the local Graphviz and Ghostscript installation folders to your GrampsPortable\App directory. The Gramps Portable folder could look like this:

-\ 
It can be used in other directory configurations by including the GrampsPortable.ini file in the same directory as GrampsPortable.exe and configuring it. GraphvizDirectory and GhostscriptDirectory are the relevant ini strings.
That's all. 8)

December 7, 2010 - 2:44pm

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Language Switching

According to this discussion it isn't clear how to change the language of Gramps Portable the easy way.
You have two possibilities:

Start Gramps Portable via PortableApps.com platform. It'll use the platform language (if not disabled)
Edit GrampsPortable\Data\settings\GrampsPortableSettings.ini. Set the LANG ini entry to your preferred language code. (LANG=fr for french, LANG=pt_BR for brazilian portuguese, LANG=de for german ...)
Start GrampsPortable.exe without platform

There is really no need to create a cmd file containing:

SET LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
SET LANGUAGE=fr_UTF-8
GRAMPSPortable.exe

Hope that helps!

Edit: The link above works en francais. Just press the french flag and try again.

December 8, 2010 - 8:36am

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Langue Français

Pas de problème le logiciel est en Français en appliquant les consignes de Bart.S

Cordialement

December 8, 2010 - 8:52am

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Ah oui,

c'est formidable!

December 11, 2010 - 12:21am

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see here

https://portableapps.com/apps/education/gramps_portable

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