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pharo-project / pharo-launcher

Lets you manage your pharo images and download new ones
https://pharo-project.github.io/pharo-launcher/
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[Feature Request] Add a link to download portable version of the launcher for Windows #638

Open labordep opened 1 year ago

labordep commented 1 year ago

Hi! Can you add a link to download the portable version of the launcher for Windows ?

Thanks!

labordep commented 10 months ago

Hi @demarey, is it possible to have a link here https://pharo.org/download ?

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demarey commented 10 months ago

Hi Pierre Yes, it will be available for the next release. For now, it is built and available in the github action of the development version. To put it on https://pharo.org/download, I need a new release

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labordep commented 10 months ago

Good news, thanks :)

labordep commented 4 months ago

Hi @demarey, I'm using the "portable" Windows version here: https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-launcher/releases with « PharoLauncher-windows-x.x.zip ». But this archive does not contains a PharoLauncher.exe file, I need to create manually a start file :(

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demarey commented 3 months ago

Hi @labordep Clicking on Pharo.exe does not start Pharo Launcher?

labordep commented 3 months ago

Hi @demarey, no it open a browser to propose to select an image :-/

demarey commented 3 months ago

ok, so, Yes, adding a small script will be needed. Could you post the start file you wrote if you already tested it?

labordep commented 3 months ago

Hi @demarey, sorry for the delay.

Now, I'm using a shortcut with a custom target on my desktop. This is a shortcut of Pharo.exe. I edit the target with adding " PharoLauncher.image" (with a space before) at the end of the previous target. image

Before that, I did use this file:

PharoLauncher.bat start Pharo.exe PharoLauncher.image

But the problem with this kind of file was that, on Windows of course, this is not possible to shorcut it on the taskbar or on the start menu as a standard application. The only way is to place it (or a shortcut) on the desktop, not really efficient...

And I haven't the PharoLauncher icon but the Pharo only icon :(

May be this will be more simple on double click on Pharo.exe to start the first available image, in that case PharoLauncher.image.