Usage clarification and functional improvement suggestions
Chris, thank you for this excellent software. I spent A LOT of time trying to make OpenMAFF work because of incorrect and incomplete instructions. I'm making this comment so that you would consider making corrections for future users. I have the following suggestions:
A. Your Installation and Usage directions on your Wordpress site, the Github site, and your readme.md file are misleading. There is no need to download the (source) zip archive; it does not contain OpenMAFF.exe, as I'm sure you know. OpenMAFF.exe is available for direct download from Github. Therefore, the first three steps should read like this:
- Download the latest release on GitHub. The executable file name is OpenMAFF.exe
- Copy it to a directory. Suggestion: C:\Users<user name>\AppData\Local\Programs
- Associate the MAFF file type with OpenMAFF. In the File Explorer, right-click on any MAFF file. Choose menu “Properties”. In the panel, in the section “Opens with:”, click on the button “Change”. Scroll down then click on “More apps ↓”. Scroll down then click on “Look for another app on this PC”. Select OpenMAFF.exe, in the directory you downloaded it to.
B. Please make clear that .NET v4.5 is required. I tried to use OpenMAFF without it and got the error message below. I eventually found references to .NET v4.5 in your code, installed it, and then OpenMAFF worked.
C: Please consider making the "DeleteTemporaryFilesAfterXDays" setting in Settings.ini (or OpenMAFF.ini) settable to zero, so that the temp files are used only for MAFF file opening, after which the temp files are immediately deleted.
Thanks again for OpenMAFF!
