2015-05-13, 21:22
Hi everyone
I was recently doing some research on using Kodi as a completely portable media centre, and I found this thread (which helped me out a lot): [Windows] Relative paths in portable mode.
There was one problem: everything had to be done through a batch file, which may ward off less-experienced users, and I couldn't find a GUI program that does the same as the batch file.
So I decided to make a program myself, which does (almost) the same as the batch file in the aforementioned forum thread, and more.
What it should eventually be able to do:
It's currently a work in progress, in a very early stage, and not yet fit for release to the general public.
This is also the first time ever that I'm making a program (I'm building it in C#, WPF, using .NET Framework 4.5.1, with Visual Studio 2015 RC), and I'm learning whatever I need along the way.
Finally, I've got a few questions:
PS.: I hope I'm posting this in the right sub-forum.
PPS.: I'll post more screenshots of what the program looks like soon.
PPPS.: I'll upload the source code of the program on GitHub in the future.
I was recently doing some research on using Kodi as a completely portable media centre, and I found this thread (which helped me out a lot): [Windows] Relative paths in portable mode.
There was one problem: everything had to be done through a batch file, which may ward off less-experienced users, and I couldn't find a GUI program that does the same as the batch file.
So I decided to make a program myself, which does (almost) the same as the batch file in the aforementioned forum thread, and more.
What it should eventually be able to do:
- Launch Kodi in portable mode
- Mount user’s media folder as a virtual hard drive to increase portability of Kodi (using subst.exe, which is included in pretty much every Windows OS nowadays)
- Copy Kodi's installation to different location (such as external hard drive), and optionally uninstall the original Kodi installation afterwards
- Move Kodi's AppData folder to portable_data folder inside Kodi installation directory, so the user can continue with his/her existing library and settings
- Install updates, so the portable Kodi stays up-to-date
- More to come in the future
It's currently a work in progress, in a very early stage, and not yet fit for release to the general public.
This is also the first time ever that I'm making a program (I'm building it in C#, WPF, using .NET Framework 4.5.1, with Visual Studio 2015 RC), and I'm learning whatever I need along the way.
Finally, I've got a few questions:
- Any creative ideas for a name for my program? (at the moment it's simply called "Kodi Portable Launcher", but I'll change the name before I release the program)
- Are there any other features you'd like to see in the program?
- Do you have any questions? Is there anything I forgot to mention?
- Is there any important information that I should really know? Do you have any tips?
PS.: I hope I'm posting this in the right sub-forum.
PPS.: I'll post more screenshots of what the program looks like soon.
PPPS.: I'll upload the source code of the program on GitHub in the future.