Chasys Programs

[JohnW]

I was browsing for free image editors which support layers when I stumbled upon John Paul Chacha's site.
The heading "Kenyan software at its very best" brought a smile to my face although I know that was very patronising of me.
Anyway, the program I looked at was Chasys Draw IES. It doesn't appear on the radar very often. I played with it for a while and was quite impressed. It had an appearance of quality about it.
Unfortunately I suspect that it is not portable - can an expert confirm that?

Also on the site there was a program Chasys Math (v 1.31)
This is a suite of math utilities including a calculator featuring graph-plotting, complex numbers and visually-perfect algebraic method (Chasys Math Calculator), and a matrix equation solver that can handle systems of equations as large as 32 by 32 (Chasys Math Matrix). It is probably portable. The files are obtained by installation/copy/uninstallation.

Find it at ...
http://www.jpchacha.com/chasysmath/

[mrpink]

From a quick test (running the main executable artist.exe) i've done, Chasys Draw is not portable. Writes its settings to Common AppData. If you untick file associations, the only thing i saw in the registry is the association with its own format. Also i deleted the shell extension dll, as i always do before running the program

The second one is stealth, it doesn't write any settings

[I am Baas]

Chasys Draw is not portable, I posted a message on the developer's wish list board a long time ago requesting a portable version (and a few others did the same since then) but he never responded. Anyways, just re-tested V3.72.1 to confirm mrpink's findings:

user\public\Documents\Chasys Draw IES
settings.bin in user\all\Chasys Draw IES\Artist
settings.bin user\all\Chasys Draw IES\Version
user\all\Chasys Draw IES\Artist\autosave

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\Classes\.cd5

Tested: Not Portable

[JohnW]

Just to thank mrpink and Baas for their findings.
Much as I suspected. What a pity the developer doesn't respond.

[mrpink]

Just to thank mrpink and Baas for their findings.

Please... it's mrpink

[I am Baas]

Just to thank mrpink and Baas for their findings.

Please... it's mrpink

Tell The Truth...Is it mrpink 0r mrpink?

[mrpink]

Lol, obviously it's neither, but JohnW got the right one, i think

[I am Baas]

Lol, obviously it's neither, but JohnW got the right one, i think

Don't make things more complicated than they have to be.

[mrpink]

Hand me the keys, you f***ing c***sucker

[Midas]

Hand me the keys, you f***ing c***sucker

Classic

A propos:

[I am Baas]

Hand me the keys, you f***ing c***sucker

Awesome scene. Love it.

Thanks.

[mrpink]

A propos:

So, who's the girl around here? lol

[webfork]

Hand me the keys, you f***ing c***sucker

Thought you'd go with this one (one of the best scenes from Reservoir Dogs and great foreshadowing).

[Stephen Leibowitz]

The current version of Chasys Draw IES is 4.47.01.

From the History page at
http://www.jpchacha.com/chasysdraw/help ... #changelog
Chasys Draw IES 4.00.01 (23 Sep 2012):
• Install to USB (as portable app)

From the Portable Chasys Draw IES page at
http://www.jpchacha.com/chasysdraw/help ... rtable.htm
“Chasys Draw IES can be converted into a portable application using the Install To USB option on the file menu.”

Not ideal, but I am thinking:
1. Install regular version
2. Create portable version (Install To USB)
3. Optionally uninstall regular version from 1.

[webfork]

From the History page at http://www.jpchacha.com/chasysdraw/help ... #changelog

Holy crap, look at that changelog. This has been in some kind of development for 16 years now. Good lord. Linux is 26.