[Opensim-users] Making Viewer Portable

[Len Brown]

Well, thing is - that is just one of many different settings that need to be
controlled.

If you go into the file menu "Edit" and then "Preferences" and adjust such
things as "Hide My Name On My Screen" and Graphics settings, and audio and
video settings - ANYTHING that is adjusted in Preferences - those settings
are all controlled outside of the viewer.

Try this - whatever viewer you use, Second Life, Hippo and ReXtend, copy the
folder that is in Program Files to a thumb drive and run it from the thumb
drive.  Change a number of the settings in Preferences.  Then exit the
viewer and remove the thumb drive and plug it into a different pc.  ALL
settings are at default when you start up the viewer.  The first obvious one
is that you will find the First Name and Last Name and Password fields are
all blank when they should be pre-filled.  When you do log in you'll find
that everything in Preferences has defaulted right back to the initial
settings as if you installed the viewer for the first time.

I used VMWare's "Thinstall" application to attempt to make the viewer
portable that way, but it would be MUCH simpler to just have the viewer save
all Preference settings to an ini file instead of via system registry.

If you open a command window (click Start, Run, then type in regedit and hit
enter.  Then click Edit then Find and type in "Second Life" and repeatedly
click F3 for "find next" you'll find lots and lots of references in the
registry to Second Life (of whatever viewer you're using).

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 3:40 AM, Jeroen van Veen <j.veenvan at gmail.com> wrote:

> did you checked out the cache-entry in app_settings/settings.xml ? =>
>
>    <key>CacheLocation</key>
>    <map>
>      <key>Comment</key>
>      <string>Controls the location of the local disk cache</string>
>      <key>Persist</key>
>      <integer>1</integer>
>      <key>Type</key>
>      <string>String</string>
>      <key>Value</key>
>      <string />
>    </map>
>
> jeroen
>
> On Friday 05 June 2009 04:55:05 Len Brown wrote:
> > Right on.  That is where the cache is stored by default.  That can be
> > changed in the application BUT those settings are all stored as registry
> > settings.  Those settings are what I'd like to have as an ini file rather
> > than registry settings.
> >
> > For example, if you go into Second Life and change the cache to be stored
> > on a thumb drive along with the main application, if you plug the thumb
> > into a different computer and run Second Life, all the settings revert to
> > default, including the default cache storage location you pointed out.
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Teravus Ovares <teravus at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > I thought it was stored in:
> > >
> > > C:\Documents and Settings\<Windows UserName>\Application
> Data\SecondLife
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > >
> > > Teravus
> > >
> > > On 6/4/09, Len Brown <lenwbrown at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hey there everyone!
> > > >
> > > >      Recently I've been working on making the Open Simulator Virtual
> > >
> > > World
> > >
> > > > Platform 100% portable.  I've set up the OpenSim server and a
> separate
> > >
> > > MySQL
> > >
> > > > server both on an external thumb drive.  I have copied the
> installation
> > > > directory of the Hippo viewer to the thumb as well but discovered
> that
> > >
> > > when
> > >
> > > > I made changes to the viewer those changes were ignored when loading
> on
> > > > a different computer.
> > > >
> > > >      I realized the viewer settings are all saved to the system
> > > > registry (I'm using Windows XP).  Would it be possible to instead
> > > > compile a viewer
> > >
> > > so
> > >
> > > > that all internal changes are instead saved to an ini file - like
> > > > OpenSim is?  This way a person could have a truly 100% portable copy
> of
> > > > OpenSim, MySQL server and viewer all on a thumb drive and keeping all
> > > > settings
> > >
> > > intact
> > >
> > > > when going from system to system.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for any input on this!
> > > >
> > > > - Len W. Brown
> > > >      lenwbrown at gmail.com
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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