Re: [sword-devel] Portable apps

[Daniel Owens]

I have used PortableApps to display several front-ends to people here. Here is my experience: BPBible obviously is the easiest to use, since it has a PortableApps installer. In integrates very well with PortableApps. Portable BibleDesktop works well (see the wiki page below for instructions about how to get it), and all you have to do to get it to appear in the PortableApps "Start Menu" is copy the "bd" folder to the "PortableApps" folder in the root of the drive after PortableApps is installed. The same is true of the nightly build of BibleDesktop, which I have used to show off the Vietnamese translation of the interface. The only problem is that every time you open the application on a new computer you have to tell the program where your Sword books are and redo all your options because the configuration file is not stored on the USB drive. Also the computer needs to have Java installed, but the program can be launched from the PortableApps menu. BibleCS also works and appears nicely in the PortableApps menu when installed in the same manner as BibleDesktop. Since all of these work, it might be worth thinking about installers that automate this for Windows users. Daniel Chris Little wrote: There's also BPBible, which has a portability as a conscious design feature. See: http://bpbible.com/support/bpbible_portable And, yes, this is all summarized in the FAQ: http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/index.php/EnduserFAQ#Do_you_have_a_.22portable.22_version_of_your_software_that_I_can_run_from_a_USB_disk.2Fstick_.28or_some_other_place.29.3F --Chris DM Smith wrote: One of the advantages of SWORD programs as portable apps is that one could put the programs and modules on a camera's or cell phone's flash card with lots of room to spare. This would be virtually undetectable in countries where Christians are persecuted. Both The SWORD Project for Windows (BibleCS) and BibleDesktop are suitable portable apps. In time BibleTime should be too. For BibleCS just install it to any Windows machine, leaving traces, then copy that to a USB stick (c:\Program Files\CrossWire). Finally, uninstall it from the local machine, removing traces (though not a secure erase). It would be easy enough to create a zip that would be appropriate to go directly to the USB stick. BibleDesktop is a little bit more involved as it needs to include a jre. But the reward is that the singular installation runs on PC, Mac and Linux. See www.crosswire.org/~dmsmith/bd for details. BibleTime is being rewritten using QT and promises to be portable and cross-platform. I think with a little effort, it would be possible to run MacSword as a portable app. I think this is in CrossWire's FAQ. In Him, DM On Jul 20, 2008, at 11:35 AM, David Haslam wrote: Has anyone seen and used http://PortableApps.com/ PortableApps.com ? Runs popular applications from [say] a USB stick, leaves behind no personal data, even in an Internet cafe. Perhaps Crosswire should start a separate project for a Portable Apps version of the most suitable Sword FrontEnd, whether SwordReader or not. -- David SonWon wrote: I was reading the home page for SwordReader. By the way it looks real nice. Anyway, I was struck with this thought while reading this sentence, "We believe that by providing the word of God digitally, we are not only enabling those in persecuted countries to study further..." Should we add a feature that would quickly purge all traces of SwordReader from the device, something faster than using "Add Remove Programs"? -- SonWon I choose God and all that my choice entails in this life even unto death and look forward to the new life that will come. _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Purge-SwordReader-tp18549256p18555541.html Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page -- PMBX license 1502

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