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Program Launcher

Adam Moore's picture

This cool utility, submitted by Adam Moore (UC Merced's designated "Application Packager") takes some of the complexity out of capturing multiple programs to a single layer by providing a GUI -- in place of the Run command -- to launch programs for capture.

Details

If you've read this tip about capturing multiple programs to a single layer, you know that part of the process is to use the Run command to launch each program being captured.

This program makes it easier. It gives you a GUI so you can browse for programs destined for capture instead of typing their names and locations in the command line.

For Example

  1. Launch the install of the first program.
  2. Then launch the actual installed program.
  3. Reconfigure the program with all necessary settings.
  4. Close it.
  5. Then close the launcher and it will end the capture, and will save all settings that have changed.

Things to Note

  • The file to be captured has to be a .exe or .msi file.
  • The capture should close after all process launched are closed and the launcher program is closed.
  • 11-02-06 Update

    • Now you can choose exe and msi files. No need to add msiexec to your program path
    • There is a command line options section that will add command line options to the path that you run.
    • You can create a program_launcher.cfg file in the same folder as the program_launcher.exe and you can set configuration options
      • Currently there is only one option. Create a section called [Settings] and a key called "DefaultOpenLocation" Under this key you can set a path that you always want to open when you click browse. A template is included in the zip file.

    11-14-06 Update

    • Create a localization.ini file to localize it. If file does not exist then it will default to English.
    • Now accepts .bat and .cmd files.
    • The selection dialog box now limits to showing only exe,.msi,.bat,.cmd.
    License: AJSL
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    sheetal's picture

    Great tool

    This is a very helpful tool as multiple program capturing can be done in single capture mode irrespective of exe or msi.

    Truly speaking, I was waiting for such a good tool from very long time.

    Adam Moore's picture

    Thanks for the kind words.

    Thanks for the kind words. I hope you weren't waiting too long because the original tool I created was released in March of this year. ;)

    sheetal's picture

    :)

    Hi Adam,
    Yes i have used the earlier released tool. But in earlier one, command line was missing. And i think command line is an imp function which was missing earlier.