Portable/usb stick mode?

[thequver]

Consider adding portable/usb stick mode to ecode. Currently (on Windows) it creates a folder in C:/Users/USER/AppData/Roaming/ecode, would be good if there was an option so the program stores everything it needs in the same folder as the main exe file

[SpartanJ]

Hi! Yes, it should be pretty easy with a command line flag, but I don't want to maintain two different packages because it adds more work to the releases. So what we can do is add a command line option ecode.exe --portable and add a shortcut access for the portable version.

[thequver]

Also some apps do it by checking if there is a file named portable near the exe so this is another way of doing it

[SpartanJ]

Can you give me a precise example or app example so I can see if it's worth copying that method? Thank

[thequver]

This 2 i'm aware of:
OBS studio https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio
https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-and-obs-studio-portable-mode-on-windows.359/

Chainner https://github.com/chaiNNer-org/chaiNNer

[SpartanJ]

Added support for portable mode, it will be part of the next release (0.5.1), changes here.
It can be invoked the same way than obs-studio:
by command line argument with --portable or -p and by creating a file besides the ecode binary called portable_mode.txt.