I'm a winPenPack.com developer. winPenPack (http://www.winpenpack.com) is a free and open source project aimed to spread the use of portable software.
I'd like to signal you that we have developed a portable version of Sweet Home 3D (called X-SweetHome3D) without any kind of modifications or reverse engineering made on program files and in compliance with original installation status. Our policy is to apply our technology only to open source programs, due to the freedom given by that kind of license.
I'm glad to post the link to X-SweetHome3D portable in winPenPack.com format: http://www.winpenpack.com/main/download.php?view.1027 Just download the .zip archive, uncompress and double-click on X-SweetHome3D.exe
Obviously, any suggestion or feedback will be welcome!
Technical details about the portable version in winPenPack.com format:
- at X-SweetHome3D first run, the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) setup is downloaded from original website and extracted directly in the \Lib\Java folder (but only if JRE is not present in this directory). In this way anyone can use Sweet Home 3D even if Java is not installed in the host pc;
- the "-Duser.home" parameter has been set for the "eTeks\Sweet Home 3D\furniture" directory
- all settings are stored in \User\SweetHome3D directory instead of the Windows registry;
- all paths of recent files (if the files are saved in \Bin\SweetHome3D, \User\SweetHome3D or \Documents\SweetHome3D directories) are normalized when the drive letter or the software position changes;
- WARNING: the program starts in Italian. To execute X-SweetHome3D in another language (English by default), please copy (and overwrite) the X-SweetHome3D.ini file from the "English_users" folder to the main directory (where are placed the other folders: Bin, Lib, ReadMe, etc..). You can also integrate X-SweetHome3D portable in the winPenPack Menu, following these guidelines http://www.winpenpack.com/main/page.php?26.2
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Re: Portable version of Sweet Home 3D
For your information, Sweet Home 3D comes now with its own portable version. Thanks winPenPack.com for providing this version meanwhile.
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Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D creator
