qkracho
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Future project(s) test
🕑 Added 2022-03-25 11:23:14 +0000 UTCHello
Since I finished school, I always wanted to make something like a visual novel I had no idea how to do it, but researching a bit I finally understood how it works. Loved those old hentai flash games manga like, I wanted to do the same, but flash was hated then disappeared, that was a huge problem to me since I was learning flash. In the end I learnt Javascript to do almost the same what was done with flash (AS3) now I wanted to distribute it in a easy way (download&play, or read) But the more I search and test the more understad how hard to make this is...
These past weeks-months I found two ways to make this possible:
1) Using Electron: size is big since it needs to compress an entire browser, also the loading time is also a bit long. just download and run kokkorotest.exe. Tried to make it lighter but I can't find a way.
2) Using an interesting library Neutralino.js, it uses OS browser so it only compress the required files but for windows it needs permision.bat to run first and once, you can even delete the file after (you can check that requirement here) then run test2-win_x64.exe. It also contains mac and linux versions which I didn't test.
The file size is very tempting to be honest, I wanted to make this the final version but making the user click a bat first can generate doubts and this is not the download&play I want to achieve.
Also, some friends had test this but there were always problems like browser doesn't letting download or antivirus giving false-positives, the need of certificates, etc. It's honestly so annoying for someone who's learning.
And yeah, that's all. I just want to test.
lol I just deleted a big Q&A I was typing, I just want to know if this works and which seems better
I will post this month reward the next days. Thank you very much for your support.
Comments
hexa
Both versions worked on my Windows PC (without running the bat file). As you may already know, there are several other similar frameworks besides Electron and Neutralino. https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-comparison Out of curiosity, if you don't use advanced APIs, wouldn't it be better to simply distribute HTML files (or publish them on the web)? That seems like the most cross-platform way to go...
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Neutralino.js is who control the exe output. Since themselves recommend the command be executed before, I don't think is possible. (or I'm just too noob) Do you got any problems downloading or running? Thank you
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Didn't expect this. Thank you
Thanks for distributing Linux version! It works well.
Might it be possible for the exe to be programmed to run the .bat file first in test2? sounds like an interesting dilemma and I'd say going with the smaller, lighter weight program would be the better option. Or just give people both options and let them choose for themselves, though if you had to program both of them separately then it would mean more work for you.
