Is a Portable Version Possible?
Posted: 21 Sep 2009, 19:52
Is it possible to make a portable version of mtgforge so that it will run on machines that don't have Java installed?
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I can, but I don't want to. So, my question remains.but I do not see why you cannot just install java on target machine.
What Huggy meant is, is it possible to make a "portable" version, that can run on any PC / Mac without having Java installed.There is another issue to consider, the minimum resolution supported by the program is 1024 x 7368. While the game is playable on a screen this small, most people would want to have a larger screen.
I wonder if using this would eleminate the class error I posted about....Huggybaby wrote:It looks like you can use JSmooth: http://jsmooth.sourceforge.net/features.php along with a JRE to make a standalone version that runs from an exe.
Yes, for the last time, that's what a portable app does.silly freak wrote:so everything you want to avoid is really installing the JRE, but you don't mind having it on your hard disk?
Uh, because forge requires Java to be installed.silly freak wrote:I don't see the way in which this problem comes from forge.
Do you use Windows? Because even if I open a command prompt (which would be antithetical to having a portable app) this wouldn't work.silly freak wrote:no matter how you get your JRE, you can always do java -jar to run forge (given the JRE is recent enough)
Wow I thought I was the only one pissed off by that.Huggybaby wrote: Java is a pig you know. When it updates, it downloads a new version without deleting the old one, so the versions accumulate. And it wants to autoupdate all the time. And it's not very fast. <edit> And it will install the Yahoo search bar if you're not paying attention. </edit>
Oops my mistake. I understand what you are going for. How to run a Java program without installing Java. I have used JSmooth and maybe I can get MTG Forge to run by including some Java files. The whole download would probably be 50-100MB but I'm not sure.Huggybaby wrote:I understand it's only a wrapper, and I'm not asking for a true exe. As I read it, you can configure JSmooth to search the local folder for a JRE, so Java does not need to be installed, it just has to be present in the forge folder.