So I would like to know if it's possible to write a script that will download a sources like an .exe or .msi from a website like Git or any other website that I provide the right url.
My goal is to dowload the .exe or .msi compare his version to the soft already installed then either update it or do nothing depending the case ( This part will be easy since I already wrote it)
But since I don't know if it's possible to dowload a file and after some search I didn't find anything that was working for me at least.
Hope you guys can guide me to the light
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I have made a Unity build and would like to share it with colleagues.
But i dont want to share it as the standard "folder structure" -build.
So, I have made a single .exe file with an icon, using Winrar selfextracting file.
It works great....BUT Windows and antivirus apps screams bloody murder when they try and open it, thinking it is a potential virus of course.
That makes the file unusable for web sharing (Sharing on a USB drive there are no problems).
How can I make a single file build, for web download, that does not make Windows and Antivirus apps go crazy?
Basically...
You need to pack(age) the build of the app.
(Note the boxing app in the linked tutorial is just an example. There are many ways to pack the game into an executable, and you don't need that specific one.)
Depending on platform, it's also either required or recommended that you sign (1)(2) the app and/or executable.
That's not that trivial since antivirus hate selfextracting exe files ;)
Either go with the usual folder structure and ship it as a .zip.
Or you could go the correct but more complex way and create a proper Installer that correctly asks for admin permissions and then is allowed to extract content into the usual program paths.
Or you can try and use this but it might underly the same issue as the selfextracting exe.
Basically what I want to do is locate a shared folder on the server (I'll be running this script from the domain controller), unshare it (so I make sure no user is still using files from there, to avoid issues), and then backup all the files from that folder into a .zip/.rar, then share the folder again. I been looking into how to automate this using powershell (I dont have much experience with it), I found this script (https://github.com/Seidlm/PowerShell-Backup-Script/blob/master/BackupScript.ps1) that im planning to modify, but I still not know how to unshare and share a folder with powershell or how to make it so that the script is automatically executed for example every day at 1:00 am or something like that, how would I be able to this? I dont want you guys to do my homework, if you could just point me in the right direction or link some documentation I would apreciate it.
I'm creating a game on Scratch 3, however, when I'm finished with it, I want to convert it to an .exe file. How do I do this?
I've been interested in game development for a long time, and have even tried Unity before, but I'm just a beginner meaning it was too difficult for me. So I turned to Scratch.
Yes, It is possible! ...But it's kinda complex,
Bear with me!
First, Take your sb3 file and convert it into a sb2. To do this I recommend using rexscratch's sb3tosb2 tool. Found here: https://github.com/RexScratch/sb3tosb2
Make sure you have python installed, if you don't, google how to install it. (it's easy).
Next, Click Clone or Download then click Download ZIP. Once that is downloaded, Open the zip, go to the next folder, and execute sb3tosb2.py . This will then ask for a sb3 file, Navigate to the sb3 file you have and select it. It may say it wants to work in compatibility mode, if it does, Just accept it. It will finish up and ask you where to put a sb2 file, just place it on your desktop and name it something.
Secondly, We need to use a program called junebeetle, Don't worry, it's a web based one, found here: https://junebeetle.github.io/converter/online/
Click open scratch file. It will ask for a sb2, Navigate to where you put the sb2 file and open it. If you want you can customize how it will open, you can. I like to use the auto start function, and fullscreen. Don't mess with the resolution unless you know not how to screw-up aspect-ratios. Then click "Convert to SWF" This will then download the SWF version the scratch game, simply name it what you want and leave it.
Finally, you need to convert the SWF file to an EXE, There are plenty of ways to do this, but for ease, I recommend using a lite file converter. SWF Tools is a good one found here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/swftools/files/SwF_To_eXe/Swf2eXe_Latest.zip/download
Let it download and then extract the zip file's content to your desktop or downloads folder. Then open the exe file inside the folder from the zip file you just extracted.
Almost there! Click "Add a file" Then, you guessed it, Navigate to the SWF file that was spat out from the conversion of the sb2. Then click "Convert" Let it do its thing, and soon it will finish. Boom, Done. To find your exe file, go to where you stored the SWF to EXE converter, go to the "Output" Folder, and infront of you, is your EXE File! Note: Your anti-virus might freakout, this is normal when making new programs.
Also, Some fonts may break, This is just a side effect of the sb3 to sb2 conversion due to the fact that there is currently no way to convert sb3 to SWF.
Hopefully that was easy enough to understand. It is a complicated process, But yields results!
If you have any issues, Just Ask! I can help!
You could use the TurboWarp Packager. It's free and safe. https://packager.turbowarp.org/
There might not be a specific or direct way to convert a Sb3 File to an exe file but You can do it indirectly in a few steps which might be kind of lengthy but works.
When your SB3 project is done, go to https://sheeptester.github.io/htmlifier/
And convert your sb3 file to html.
From there you can convert the html file you got just now to an exe file, but not as you might expect it to. You cannot convert an html page to an exe file so what you can do is add the html webpage (the scratch game now converted to a html webpage) as an 'embed' file in the software such as, like Unity or Visual Basic, as they allow html webpages to be embedded in a project. Then you can add features and stuff, then publish or export your project as an exe file.
I know the process is really lengthy and I practically just wrote a long boring thesis but this might be the only way you can convert scratch to exe.
Hope my answer helps!
Hasta La Vista
Convert your Scratch project to HTML using Scratch HTMLifier: https://sheeptester.github.io/words-go-here/htmlifier/
Download NW.js and put its files (nw.exe, ...) in a directory. Create a package.json file in that directory that should look like this:
{
"name": "Project",
"main": "project.html"
}
(replace Project with the name of your project and project.html with the name of your HTML file).
Make sure that your project runs when you start nw.exe.
Use any tool to turn your folder into a self-extracting archive.
See also: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/341617/
use https://packager.turbowarp.org/
Using simple setting you can export without any problems.
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Currently, there is no software or smart javascript tricks that can convert .sb3 files into .exe files. You could use an .sb2 file but you need to use Scratch 2.0. There are developers working on conversion programs that do .sb3 to .exe but that will take a while. I would recommend using Scratch 2.0 if you want to convert your Scratch games to an executable.
At first I want to say I'm a total beginner in Python so this question might be really stupid. I'm currently trying to learn something new and am developing a plugin for SublimeText2.
Can I get a list of files and folders in some directory in Packages folder of SublimeText2, what I basically want is a simple list. If yes, how can this be done?
I've searched the API for something like that, but the only thing that there is are commands that manipulate the currently open folders (the ones in the sidebar).
Ok, this was really stupid, I won't close the question as I think it may help others to start here. The reason I didn't find anything in SublimeText2 API is because this is the default Python functionality from the os library.
import sublime, sublime_plugin, os
#...
print(os.listdir(sublime.packages_path()))
Method sublime.packages_path() returns the path to packages folder.
I'm new to MATLAB and mrVista.
I'm running Matlab Version 7.8.0.347 (R2009a) 32-bit(win32) from February 12, 2009
OS is Windows 7 Professional
I downloaded the most recent MrVista_hourly.zip and extracted it into my C:\Program_Files_(x86)\MATLAB directory.
I think I need to run mrvInstall, but when I do, I get the following:
EDU>> mrvInstall
Checking VISATSOFT installation.
Windows, 32-bit, installation
Checking and possibly installing .NET framework.
This can take several minutes
Checking for visualization library (.dll) files.
You are missing msvcp70.dll.
So, I'm completely lost at this point. Do I just need to download msvcp70.dll from the net? If so, is there a safe place to download it from? If there's some other way I'm supposed to get mrVista to work from MATLAB, instead of mrvInstall, please let me know that.
Thanks in advance for your help.
EDIT: I've downloaded and installed the dll and still isn't working. I'll go ask on Super User. Thanks for trying to help anyway.
EDIT2: before asking on superuser, I tried once more to solve it myself. Turns out, under the File -> Set Path you have to Add_With_Subfolders the specific vistasoft folder. (Even though I'd already added with subfolders the parent directory where vistasoft lives, that wasn't good enough.) So, once I added the path, and made sure I was in the directory where my data lives, I was able to run the initial command from the tutorial:
mrVista inplane
It opens up very nicely now. No compiles or installs or other commands were actually necessary. Methinks I'm going to go edit a wiki now so no one else has this problem.
There's a pretty comprehensive discussion of Visual C++ runtime DLLs here
Whoever built the file that uses msvcp70.dll (and msvcr70.dll) presumably had Visual Studio 2002 and the right to redistribute that file.
You're probably not going to get much help beyond that because I'm a MatLab user and I have no idea what mrVista is. You've provided no link, no explanation, nothing that someone could use to help you.
See this page on MrVista Wiki:
http://white.stanford.edu/newlm/index.php/Troubleshooting#MESH
There is information on this dll and where to get it from.
I guess "serverfault" is VERY badly named if it's the go-to place for things that have zero to do with servers;-). Maybe the complaint shd actually point to superuser.com?
Me, I've researched the top google hits for this DLL, the very top one seems to be on "dll-files.com" which has no bad reports I can see and is rated green/safe by mcafee, so that's where I would risk downloading it from. Weird that I can't find it on a MSFT site, though.