Portable GIS continues apace
One of the things that I wanted to do with my portable GIS was to include a menu on the USB stick to tie everything together and provide easy access to the configuration files. The first option I looked at was PStart, but that’s not open source and has quite a limited license. Luckily (again) a saviour has come along, in the shape of Tim Fehlman’s USB Drive Menu. This started off as freeware but he has now made it Open Source so it’s ideal.
It’s built using AutoIT, which I hadn’t paid much attention to, until now, but it was remarkably easy to understand and use, even if I am a bit of a voodoo programmer as one of my colleagues calls it 
So now I have a working menu, apart from the fact that I have to find out what sort of license Tim wants to use and how he wants to be credited. We’re getting there…
Don’t fear voodoo programming - it was a technique I used for many years before my vision quest taught me otherwise. If people give you crap about writing spaghetti code, just give them a wink and say, “I’m Italian!”
“Archaeogeek Says:
August 13th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
Point: Adding submenus is actually really easy…”
Care to Share? Please?
Been looking for this function but I have no scripting or programing experience to speak of.
Currently playing with the parameter function in th Applist.ini with no success on that either.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thx
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Hi Curious,
It was a combination of additional parameters in applist.ini and some extra code in the executable. I have posted my versions of both at http://www.archaeogeek.com/downloads/portable_gis_menu.zip, so have a look and see how you get on. Get back to me if it doesn’t make sense…
Thanks for stopping by!
Jo