Fwd: SpeedCrunch Portable (I've made a Portable Version)
Helder Correia
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From: Patrick Patience <patrick...@nascent-project.org>
Date: Nov 4, 2007 11:25 PM
Subject: SpeedCrunch Portable (I've made a Portable Version)
To: helder.pere...@gmail.com
Cc: patrick...@nascent-project.org
Hey,
My name's Patrick Patience, I'm a developer over at
PortableApps.com. If you don't know the purpose of the site is to make
regular programs portable, so they can run from a USB drive and other
portable device. What we do to make them portable is write 'launchers'
or 'wrappers' in the Nullsoft Scriptable Install System language. The
launchers launch the program, but also make the appropriate
adjustments to the location of their settings. So for SpeedCrunch, my
launcher backs up local registry settings on launch, then it imports
its portable settings, and on close the portable settings are copied
back to the portable device and the local settings put back to their
original location. Hopefully the main developer of PortableApps.com
will get me a splash screen for SpeedCrunch Portable, and we'll have
it released sometime soon.
I read on your blog that you plan to release SpeedCrunch 0.9 on
the 18th, when you do I'll update the portable version I made that's
in beta right now, and hopefully we'll have it released publicly
shortly after. I did read a post at the SpeedCrunch Google Group about
storing settings in an INI file, but their was issues with it only
being stored under the UserProfile location or something, if it is
possible to store the settings in a INI file in the SpeedCrunch
directory, it would be great, or a command line parameter to move the
settings elsewhere. Also, when SpeedCrunch is first installed, the
desktop icon really doesn't look great at all, but the one in the
About Box does, so my friend made one like the one in the About Box
using Everaldo's icons. I've attached the icon and the logo if you
want them. If you have an official logo in high-res, I'd appreciate
that instead.
If you're interested the Beta Test of SpeedCrunch Portable I posted is
over here, http://portableapps.com/node/9526.
Appreciate hearing back from you, and keep up the awesome work,
Patrick Patience
