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Portable Software for Windows instead of .MSI installer

Open spirited1086 opened this issue 1 year ago • 3 comments

Wondering if this would be possible. Purpose of doing this is to allow multiple version/configurations, it's temporary hack to have multiple languages and be able to switch between them. The MSI installer allows only one instance of the program which means manually selecting and reconfiguring the program every time I want to switch languages.

spirited1086 avatar Jul 02 '24 04:07 spirited1086

It wouldn't actually allow this (not any easier than just implementing changing configurations directly). The configuration is not stored in the program. It is stored in the user settings folder (%APPDATA% for Windows). You also don't lose the settings when reinstalling.

1over137 avatar Jul 05 '24 06:07 1over137

Another option then would be replacing the config files based on the language. I tried to look in %APPDATA% and found nothing. There's files under "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\FreeLanguageTools\VocabSieve" but no similar structure or config in the Roaming (%APPDATA%) folder.

spirited1086 avatar Jul 05 '24 22:07 spirited1086

Just found out where the configuration is stored. Unfortunately, it's not a plain-text file in windows. It's in the registry.

Something like... Computer\HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-............................................................................................\Software\FreeLanguageTools\VocabSieve

spirited1086 avatar Jul 23 '24 14:07 spirited1086