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Thanks! for the new release  . Please allow me to make a few constructive observations.

I'm a long time Windows user and sometimes Ubuntu user:

Most windows programs use an installer. This places the executable program in a particular location, creates a desktop Icon, as well as an uninstall procedure, and some programs also make use of the windows registry. I like programs that don't need to be installed. So I'm not asking for, nor defending the use of a windows installer. However you do use the old DOS based Bat file to install all the components to a particular location on the HDD.

Why are you using an install bat file? I'm not a programmer, but would it not be possible to simply run the program, from wherever the user extracts Mandelbulber-win32-0.99.zip to? I think this would make using Mandelbulber a lot easier, It would also allow me to evaluate a previous version along side the current version, since each version would run from its own version folder.

your thoughts!

Hello

I have Windows 7 Prof 64bits and in version 0.98 I had no problems with the ".mandelbulber". So "mandelbulber" works also fine now here.
Talking about default folder: how can I change that? If I change folders with the "Select file paths"-button in the main Mandelbulber window, then that only will change for that session. If I start Mandelbulber the next time, the default folder is back to the Users folder on Windows7 disc. So is it possible to set the default folder to another partition? So not C:\Users\....  but for example E:\Programs\Fractals\.... ?

Menno

Ah ok, understood about the "dot"
And my experience is otherwise: I can run Mandelbulber from whatever local disc I want (like now it is on my F-disc), it's the default directories for storing files and so on it creates on the C:\ disc that can not be changed.

Menno

Hi

I'm sorry for delayed answer but last week I couldn't answer any email.

About installer for Windows, first of all it is only Windows port of this program. Program originally is created for Linux. If somebody is interested in creating some better installer for Windows, I'm really open for this (it is an open source program). I don't want to do this by own, because I don't have any knowledge about creating installers for Windows (this installer has to work on any version and configuration of Windows), and I doesn't have any tools for creating installers (most are not for free). If you are thinking, that something has to be changed inside the program to make it more flexible on Windows, please give me detailed description. Please tell me where you want to have default files or have some additional configuration files (*.ini files).

Now you can start the program from any location (from the place where you unpack the files) but default directory for all config and texture files is still %USERPROFILE%\.mandelbulber\. Of course you can save images and settings files and load textures from any directory.