Portable IDE

[Don_Kirby]

Lately, I am finding myself sitting at a foreign computer, without my normal suite of software to use. To combat this, I've taken to carrying a USB drive with me, containing my most used applications. After some searching, I have found some portable versions of various applications that require no permanent installation on the host computer.

I have a few different portable code editors I can use, but I'd prefer to keep the I in IDE and use the ZBasic software.

Is it possible to install the ZBasic environment to a portable device? I've tried a regular install, but the installer sees the actual installation and thinks I'm trying to upgrade, thereby not giving me the opportunity to specify a different install directory.

-Don

[dkinzer]

Is it possible to install the ZBasic environment to a portable device?

The current installer doesn't have an awareness of portable/removable storage devices.

It may work to uninstall ZBasic first, install to the portable device, and then install again after the portable device is removed. I haven't tried this.

[dkinzer]

Actually, it is even easier than described above. Just copy the contents of the ZBasic installation directory on your primary computer to the desired destination drive. The only issue will be that the IDE will look for your UserProperties file in the "\Documents and Settings\<user-name>" directory of any computer on which it runs.

[sturgessb]

As a related question, I would really like to be able to run two instances of the Zbasic IDE at once. I am currently working with two zx devices and forever having to reopen the correct project, set target device and com port is frustrating.

I tried duplicating the Zbasic folder but no joy.

Can this be done?

Cheers

Ben

[dkinzer]

I would really like to be able to run two instances of the Zbasic IDE at once.

It can be done by adding some special options to the invocation of the IDE other than the first. See the penultimate post of the thread below for more details.

http://www.zbasic.net/forum/about659.html

[sturgessb]

thats great thanks. I did try to search but didnt find that thread.

[mikep]

I found the other thread ok.

On my Windows version (XP SP2), when I click again on the IDE icon, it tries to start another process but no window comes up (as expected). Unfortunately the process is still listed and did not terminate properly.

[dkinzer]

Unfortunately the process is still listed and did not terminate properly.

Thanks for pointing this out. We have found the cause of this issue and have corrected it.