Suggesting a Portable Version that does not require Admin rights

[Hunanbean-Collective]

Suggesting a Portable Version that does not require Admin rights

Thanks

[teamcons]

"hello", "please", and "thank you", may increase your chances.
On Linux theres an appimage.

[Hunanbean-Collective]

And that also has no "false positives"

Thanks

[Hunanbean-Collective]

"hello", "please", and "thank you", may increase your chances. On Linux theres an appimage.

It concerns me that the word 'Thanks' is no longer enough to sate the self appointed internet politeness authoritarions need for public displays of attempted domination.
Not only was that unnecessary, innapropriate for the forum, and also containing unrelated information, but is indicative of a need for you to find something useful to do with your abundant free time. Do make it unrelated to attempts at altering other peoples neutral behavior and expressions for your own tyrannical satisfaction.

and a double macchiato.

and stop pointlessly trolling on GitHub

[luukgb]

I have used PortableApps launcher (https://portableapps.com/apps/development/portableapps.com_launcher) to make BeeRef portable for Windows use.

I downloaded the application template from this page: https://portableapps.com/development

I created this folder structure:

D:\PortableApps\BeeRefPortable
D:\PortableApps\BeeRefPortable\App
D:\PortableApps\BeeRefPortable\App\AppInfo
D:\PortableApps\BeeRefPortable\App\AppInfo\Launcher
D:\PortableApps\BeeRefPortable\App\BeeRef

Then I added BeeRef.exe
D:\PortableApps\BeeRefPortable\App\BeeRef\BeeRef.exe

and created the portableapps ini files:
D:\PortableApps\BeeRefPortable\App\AppInfo.ini
`[Format]
Type=PortableAppsFormat
Version=3.8

[Details]
Name=BeeRef Portable
AppId=BeeRefPortable
Publisher=BeeRef contributors
Homepage=https://beeref.org/
Category=Graphics & Pictures
Description=A simple reference image viewer
Language=English

[License]
Shareable=true
OpenSource=true
Freeware=true
CommercialUse=true

[Version]
PackageVersion=0.3.3.0
DisplayVersion=0.3.3

[Control]
BaseAppID=%BASELAUNCHERPATH%\App\BeeRef\BeeRef.exe
Icons=1
Start=BeeRefPortable.exe
Name=BeeRef Portable
Description=A simple reference image viewer`

and

D:\PortableApps\BeeRefPortable\App\AppInfo\Launcher\BeeRefPortable.ini
`[Launch]
ProgramExecutable=BeeRef\BeeRef.exe
DirectoryMoveOK=yes
SupportsUNC=yes

[FileWrite1]
Type=Replace
File=%PAL:DataDir%\RoamingBeeRef\BeeRef.ini
Find=%PAL:LastDrive%\
Replace=%PAL:Drive%\

[DirectoriesMove]
RoamingBeeRef=%APPDATA%\BeeRef`

After that I simply ran the PortableAppsLauncher application to generate a launcher application.

The launcher moves the BeeRef folder created in "C:\Users%username%\Appdata\Roaming" to the Data folder in the BeeRefPortable folder when BeeRef is closed. When opened again it replaces the PortableApps drive letter if it has changed (for the recently opened files, assuming they have been stored on the same drive as where the portable app is run from) and moves the folder back to the Roaming folder while BeeRef is running.

As far as I have seen BeeRef does not write to Windows Registry or create files other than in the user Roaming folder.