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UltraVNC viewer Portable

Submitted by Machete on May 30, 2006 - 12:47pm

I had been thinking of making a launcher for this for some time. Then, just this past weekend, it finally sunk in - uvnc is GPL! So, I modified the source to the vncviewer app, so it is now portable (I originally implemented a "-portable" parameter, which is still available below).

Libertà Release: Sync 2.0 Release Candidate 3

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Submitted by Steve Lamerton on May 30, 2006 - 11:03am

Sync 2.0 RC3 released

General Information

This version fixes both the overwrite files option and the remove original files option. It also adds a category editor and fixes the title. Finally it moves to properly sizer based layout as well as cleaning up the code.

Please post any bugs below. Get it here. Project page here.

Known Bugs

  • None at this time

To Do

  • Nothing

Compilers

Submitted by tencpa on May 30, 2006 - 4:45am

Hi All!
I'm working on an app to launch latex compilers for math typing from a text editor.
Actually I've to use absolute path to the compiler living on USB-stick, is there someone who dealt with a workaround to let this path not depending on USB-disk-letter assigned from Windows?
Many thanks for any ideas
Paolo

Portable Application Template 1.4 released

Submitted by Klonk on May 29, 2006 - 7:41am

This template should be suitable for most applications to make them portable.

Download it here (latest version 1.4.2):
http://www.loncarek.de/downloads/ApplicationPortableTemplate.zip

It allows saving a lot settings (one or all of them at once):
- One or more registry keys
- One or more settings directories
- One or more settings files

The source contains a lot comments, documenting what I did and why (for those who want to learn).

Need help to make TV-Browser portable

Submitted by sylvio2000 on May 29, 2006 - 7:14am

TV-Browser stores its settings on Harddisk.
I found out (in the tv-browser forum) that you only have to change some absolute paths into relative paths. But I dont know how to do it. Hope somebody can help me. Here are the paths:

# In this folder TV-Browser stores the settings
userdir=${user.home}/TV-Browser

# In this folder TV-Browser stores the TV listings
tvdatadir=${user.home}/TV-Browser/tvdata

# In this folder TV-Browser stores the plugins
#pluginsdir=${user.home}/TV-Browser/plugins

NSIS 2.17 Released

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Submitted by Rob Loach on May 23, 2006 - 10:21am

NSIS version 2.17 was released yesterday. This is a maintenance release featuring some minor changes:

  • Fixed build failures and segfaults on PowerPC Mac OS X (bug #1474597, bug #1481044)
    Fixed Library's TLB version interpretation (bug #1471341)
  • Fixed possible stack corruption when using TypeLib.dll on an invalid TLB
  • Fixed RMDir deletion failure of read-only folders (bug #1481664)
  • MakeNSISW: Fixed toolbar compressor selection menu, broken in the previous version (bug #1466486)

What does this entry mean? (RegWrapper)

Submitted by cch on May 21, 2006 - 1:22pm

I tried to use regwarper to take care of xmplay.
However, when I used regshot to check entry, I found only entry "HKU\xxxxxx" are listed. like this:
HKU\S-1-5-21-3861040112-4126761641-4252535763-1003\Software\Un4seen Developments\XMPlay2
HKU\S-1-5-21-3861040112-4126761641-4252535763-1003_Classes\XMPlay

I found some xmplay entry in hkey_current_use and other places are not listed. What does those numbers mean? serial number of my computer? What entry I should use actually?

AutoSync App?

Submitted by Jacoby on May 19, 2006 - 4:39am

Hello again all!

I have a slight problem using PFF and PTB sometimes and I thought I would propose a solution here.

My problem:

Every time I use either PTB of PFF, they end up with profile differences than my local copies. As I generally use the Portable versions most often, and always use PTB to check my e-mail first, this is a minor problem, but with TB and FF being default apps on my WinXP box, it can get slightly annoying having to sync them every time I need something in a portable but am using a local copy.

My idea:

Liberta is coming along very well, and I like the new incarnations of the apps, although I've only viewed the cosmetic aspects of a few and not the actual functionality or Sync and Backup (hmm, a thought: might sync do this now somehow, and am I wasting my time? *Oh well* I've started and might as well finish. I'll check afterwards. Damned 3:00am bleary eyed posts.). But is there a way to automatically sync PFF and PTB profiles to local? It could be an apps in an autorun.inf, or an app that starts with pstart.

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