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Lightbulb Alice Launcher - 12-22-2012, 11:40 PM

I wanted to create something that would be ready for Christmas, so I came up with this:



Basically this replaces the Alice exe. It still launches Alice, it took a while to work out the setup for doing so, but it also has configurable options, shortcuts and mods.

The "Memory to allocate" option should hopefully fix some lag issues.

Get mods for Alice (that use this) from here

Download it here

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CHANGELOG
Haven't really been recording updates, but I will from now on.

Minor idea of what was changed before I made this official changelog:
- pre v0.8: can't remember, didn't really record changes
- v0.8: link
- v0.9: under the hood changes

v0.10 (3.0.0)
- many under the hood changes and fixes
- added support for mods
- fixed some memory leak issues
- added an option to alocate "Default" amount of memory to Alice
- fixed a major bug in preferences
- fixed some bugs that occur when Alice crashes

v0.11 (4.0.0)
- rewritten the way mods are loaded and handled due to a major bug
- fixed a mod loading issue that would cause crashes

v0.12 (4.0.1) [current version]
- minor under the hood changes


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Default 12-23-2012, 01:59 AM

There's an ArtyOnline icon.
Does that say anything about the ArtyOnline release-date (No pressure)?


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Default 12-25-2012, 08:52 AM

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Originally Posted by GameKid View Post
There's an ArtyOnline icon.
Does that say anything about the ArtyOnline release-date (No pressure)?
Not really, sorry.


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Default Here it is - 12-25-2012, 09:03 AM

I said I would post ths and a promise is a promise so here it is.

Sorry, this is Windows only so far.

Installing
Run (or download to a temporary place and run) this installer.

Choose the folder that you installed Alice to (with the Alice exe and "Required" sub-folder) and click download.



Starting

There should now be a shortcut labelled "Alice Launcher" in the folder you chose, this will start Alice launcher.
You can pin this to the taskbar or whatever.


What doesn't work yet
  • Changing the JRE to one that doesn't have JOGL installed.
  • Allocating 2GB of RAM or higher.
  • ArtyOnline.

What didn't work before, but does after updates
  • Splash screen editing on Alice 2.3 and above.
  • Mods.


I recommend enabling "Automatically launch Alice" option.


Updates are on their way, including fixing what doesn't work yet, making a better installer (done) and adding support for Mac and Linux (dubious as to whether this will ever be implemented).


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Default 12-25-2012, 03:30 PM

I forgot to mention why you should install this (ie. what it does).
  • It has all the functions of the standard exe, so you've got nothing to lose.
  • If Alice crashes then your preferences file isn't reset (like it is with the standard exe), but you can choose to reset it if you believe that is the source of the problem.
  • It better handles multiple instances of Alice; they all share preferences, instead of just one instance.
  • You can safely modify the startup splash (coming soon in Alice 2.3+), default world and preferences file.
  • You can allocate more RAM to Alice, to solve lag issues.
  • It logs process output, so can be used to solve startup errors.
  • You can select a world to open before Alice launches, therefore saving on precious fumbling around time.
  • "Auto launch Alice" can be enabled, so you can forget the Alice Launcher is even there.
  • It has a button for launching the ArtyOnline server app.
  • It has a built in auto-updater.
And many more cool features coming soon, including - but not limited to:
  • Running Alice as a 64 bit process
  • Mods, addons, styles and themes
  • Using the server browser to launch Alice straight into ArtyOnline games.
  • More...


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Default 12-26-2012, 12:39 AM

Very cool. Do you need any testing done?


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