OO3 Pro on an USB stick or iPod?

[Timothy J.Wood]

On Jan 6, 2005, at 9:31 AM, René Wuttke wrote:
> is there a way to install OO3Pro on a iPod (3G), or better an USB 
> stick,
> in a way that it can be run on any Jaguar or Panther system without
> leaving any traces in the Library? I'd like to take OO with me all the 
> time.

   Not completely, but you can get part way there if you are willing to 
modify the application plist (select 'Show Package Contents' from the 
contextual menu in Finder then look in Contents and open Info.plist in 
TextEdit or PropertyList Editor).

- Under OFBundleRegistryConfig/AdditionalRegistrations is a list of 
paths to additional default files to use.  You should be able to set up 
your preferences once and then copy that file to the stick and put the 
path in this array.  This will not cause *new* preference changes to 
get written to this copied file, though.  Apple's preference code is 
probably not flexible enough to write anywhere other than ~/Library, 
but I haven't specifically looked for this in their API.

- Under OFBundleRegistryConfig/SearchPaths is a list of paths to look 
for plug-ins.  If you download OO3 add-ons later, you could modify this 
to look for them on your stick.

- In the Contents/Resources directory of the app wrapper is 
OZSettings.plist.  This has a LicenseSearchPath entry that would allow 
you to put your license on the stick and carry it with you.

   We don't have any solution good or bad for the Scripts, Templates and 
other stuff that goes in the Application Support directory that I can 
think of (other than creating symlinks).

   Anyone that is interested in this feature should send their vote to 
<omnioutliner3 at omnigroup.com> so we can prioritize it vs. other 
requests.

   I hope this helps!

-tim