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Online installer - AdvancedExtract1To failing?

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Submitted by computerfreaker on December 20, 2009 - 10:39pm

I'm working on an online installer for TopOCR; however, the AdvancedExtract1To parameter seems to be failing. It correctly creates the folder, but doesn't extract the installer's files into that folder.
I know it should be able to, since 7-Zip shows the embedded files without a hitch... anyone know what the problem might be?

Here's my installer.ini:

TopOCR - questions before releasing

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Submitted by computerfreaker on December 20, 2009 - 4:40pm

I've just finished making TopOCR, a great OCR program, portable.
I need to clarify a couple of things before I post it here, though...

* I've been unable to find a spelled-out license; the only "license" I've been able to find is freeware. Any problem with that?

* Can I make a live (online) installer, or am I stuck just posting the launcher?

* I assume I need to get permission from TopOCR, right? I did manage to find a contact e-mail address on their site...

Looking for suggestions: "Visual" IDE to create portable apps

Submitted by kykdidge on December 19, 2009 - 9:28pm

Hi, I'm hoping you can give me some ideas...

I'm building a "game" to train pollution control operators. The game must have the following characteristics:
* Run off a USB drive on Windows machines (not a web-based app)
* Contain a main window that shows equipment operations and contains 10-15 data entry fields (some textboxes, some drop downs, maybe a slider or two)
* Intensive background calculations (calculus)
* Several tabs or popups to collect info about transactions (eg, purchasing inputs, selling/disposing waste)

JetAudio - my first app

Submitted by dougakins on December 10, 2009 - 10:35pm

First let me say I'm a portable apps junkie, and as such I wanted to try to build one myself and also try to give back to the community a bit.

I always thought that for an app to be truly portable it never wrote anything to the computer. It wasn't until I started digging into the scripts that I realized some of it is copying and files/settings to and from the host computer.

NewTextReplace Beta 4.1, ANSI & Unicode NSIS

Submitted by Mark Sikkema on December 10, 2009 - 8:09am

This is developed especially for files with odd binary data, such ass media libraries and any Unicoded files.

I have modified textreplace.dll, to deal with ALL unicode files.
NewTextReplace Plugin for Ansi- & Unicode NSIS

Release Notes:

Development Test 4.1 (2010-01-19)

  • notes:
    Added additional credit to the dev. of the TextReplace plug-in.
    It did already for the source and readme, but not for the .nsh file.

.net framework

Submitted by milleja46 on December 9, 2009 - 11:03am

i was wondering if someone could point me to a portable open source version of the .net framework? Several computers including my home computer don't have it and i cannot install it on them. One because of admin rights at school, and 2 because of no internet at home. I get done with the work i try to do and have free time to do otherstuff until the end of the period. So any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thx.

Shareaza Portable for take over

Submitted by themida on December 6, 2009 - 10:18pm

Hello,

I have written with a template but its my first working with NSIS and hope that anyone from your developer team can take over my work and make it better and for your PA Standard.
Its with the newest version (2.5.1.0).
Please write here, if you take it.

todo
- appinfo.txt is only your template
- maybe registry file classes and shareaza dll plugins
- Installer
- checking my work
- testing

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