Before I say anything else I want to say that I'm absolutely fascinated with TC UP! That's why I miss better installation options!
Yes it's portable and it should be. I'm definitely using it as such. I install it and move it wherever I want: to a USB stick, to another computer. But then, why is the installer not made with this in mind? I had 3.6 and wanted to update to 4.0, but the update option was dimmed, I suppose because it did not find TC UP where it expected to find it (in "%ProgramFiles%\TC UP\") or it misses something from the registry - I don't know right now - but a portable application should not rely on either. There should be a possibility to point the installer to the TCUP program folder.
Not really. It's possible to set file associations during setup.
The "main TC UP" is also not very useful.
What I use are these two .reg files (my TC UP is in " D:\d\Progs\TC UP\"):
For the left pane:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\TC UP L]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\TC UP L\command]
@="\"D:\\d\\Progs\\TC UP\\TC UP.exe\" -O -L=\"%1\""
and for the right pane:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\TC UP R]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\TC UP R\command]
@="\"D:\\d\\Progs\\TC UP\\TC UP.exe\" -O -R=\"%1\""
fenixproductions Wrote:According to the information received from Ultima: there is no associations changes after installing TC UP. He has always TC UP in mind as portable project.
Yes it's portable and it should be. I'm definitely using it as such. I install it and move it wherever I want: to a USB stick, to another computer. But then, why is the installer not made with this in mind? I had 3.6 and wanted to update to 4.0, but the update option was dimmed, I suppose because it did not find TC UP where it expected to find it (in "%ProgramFiles%\TC UP\") or it misses something from the registry - I don't know right now - but a portable application should not rely on either. There should be a possibility to point the installer to the TCUP program folder.
fenixproductions Wrote:The only way to mess with system is to set associations from an application itself (i.e. starting included XnView and choosing "associate" from its options dialog) but it has nothing in common with main TC UP.
Not really. It's possible to set file associations during setup.
The "main TC UP" is also not very useful.
What I use are these two .reg files (my TC UP is in " D:\d\Progs\TC UP\"):
For the left pane:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\TC UP L]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\TC UP L\command]
@="\"D:\\d\\Progs\\TC UP\\TC UP.exe\" -O -L=\"%1\""
and for the right pane:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\TC UP R]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\TC UP R\command]
@="\"D:\\d\\Progs\\TC UP\\TC UP.exe\" -O -R=\"%1\""