Submit portable freeware that you find here. It helps if you include information like description, extraction instruction, Unicode support, whether it writes to the registry, and so on.
The Sessions Color Calculator is an interactive color wheel that helps designers select HTML, RGB, or CMYK colors and identifies color harmonies and schemes. Our Color Wheel works faster than any other color wheel or html color chart.
That means that it is a stand-alone executable, requiring no installation and even if it did write some settings to the Registry, it is no worse that some other programs here that "are accepted as portable".
What's the difference between a compiled Flash presentation and a presentation compiled in another program?
All that I see is that it's very useful for me, it's the only freeware using a color wheel to help you select a color, I don't need to install anything to use it and I can't see how can affect my computer after using it.
It's an useful portable freeware.
Doesn't matter if you add it or not, I've found it useful. While nobody show my another program that can do this I'll use it on my USB drive.
shaggystyle wrote:
Doesn't matter if you add it or not, I've found it useful. While nobody show my another program that can do this I'll use it on my USB drive.
and there you have it! Nobody said that you couldn't use it just because it's not in the PF database. Use away to your heart's content!
I think this is an issue that has been raised before; the PF database submissions must follow some rules otherwise you open the floodgates to all sorts of submissions, like a Microsoft PowerPoint compiled into an exe (submitting something like that to the database would be craziness!)
As I seem to recall saying to somebody else on this forum, if you want to use it, that is fine. Nobody is going to come round to your house and break your kneecaps for doing so. Just understand that some submissions make it and some don't.
Though it does not meet TPFC's requirements, I was very impressed by this little app and figured the least I could do is sticky it in a different area of the forums. Hopefully it will still get due notice here.
Perhaps I clouded the issue. Rather than "presentation", I should have used the word "application". This is not merely a slideshow, but a calculator, as its name implies. I agree that one should draw the line for compiled slideshows.
But to me, this is a bona fide tool that would have already been included in the database if it were coded in another language. It will also be added to my toolbox, regardless.
When I made the statement "Yup, won't be adding Flash stuff to the database.", I thought it requires the Flash runtime to be installed (as sproaticus did too). I didn't realize the Flash IDE is powerful enough to compile ActionScript code to stand-alone EXEs. Sorry for my ignorance.
I have checked the app using Dependency Walker and Process Explorer, and to the best of my knowledge, it is indeed a stand-alone EXE with no other dependencies. I think it should be considered as a candidate for addition to the database, since it is really not different from other EXEs except for the language/IDE used.
Andrew: Yeah, that was my feeling too, since it is a stand-alone by all definitions, and any settings that could be conceivably saved would have no impact on portable usage anyways. It's up to you though.
I have checked the app using Dependency Walker and Process Explorer, and to the best of my knowledge, it is indeed a stand-alone EXE with no other dependencies. I think it should be considered as a candidate for addition to the database, since it is really not different from other EXEs except for the language/IDE used.
