Celestia Portable Launcher 1.6.0
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Copyright 2004-2009 John T. Haller
Copyright 2009 Nathan

Website: http://PortableApps.com/CelestiaPortable

This software is OSI Certified Open Source Software.
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.


ABOUT Celestia PORTABLE
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The Celestia Portable Launcher allows you to run Celestia from a removable drive whose letter changes as you move it to another computer.  The program can be entirely self-contained on the drive and then used on any Windows computer.


LICENSE
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This code is released under the GPL.  The full code is included with this package as CelestiaPortable.nsi.


INSTALLATION / DIRECTORY STRUCTURE
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By default, the program expects the following directory structure:

-\ <--- Directory with CelestiaPortable.exe
	+\App\
		+\Celestia


It can be used in other directory configurations by including the CelestiaPortable.ini file in the same directory as CelestiaPortable.exe and configuring it as details in the INI file section below.


CelestiaPortable.INI CONFIGURATION
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The Celestia Portable Launcher will look for an ini file called CelestiaPortable.ini (read the previous section for details on placement).  If you are happy with the default options, it is not necessary, though.  The INI file is formatted as follows:

[CelestiaPortable]
CelestiaDirectory=App\Celestia
SettingsDirectory=Data\settings
CelestiaExecutable=Celestia.exe
AdditionalParameters=
DisableSplashScreen=false

The CelestiaDirectory entry should be set to the *relative* path to the appropriate directories from the current directory.  All must be a subdirectory (or multiple subdirectories) of the directory containing CelestiaPortable.exe.  The default entries for these are described in the installation section above.

The CelestiaExecutable entry allows you to set the Celestia Portable Launcher to use an alternate EXE call to launch Celestia.  This is helpful if you are using a machine that is set to deny Celestia.exe from running.  You'll need to rename the Celestia.exe file and then enter the name you gave it on the CelestiaExecutable= line of the INI.

The AdditionalParameters entry allows you to pass additional commandline parameter entries to the executable.  Whatever you enter here will be appended to the call to the exe.

The DisableSplashScreen entry allows you to run the Launcher without the splash screen showing up.  The default is false.




PROGRAM HISTORY / ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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This launcher is loosely based on the Firefox Portable launcher and contains some ideas suggested by mai9 and tracon from the mozillaZine forums.