Changelog:
- New feature: password protection for packed application. [#19]
Note: it doesn't encrypt files, so don't rely on it to protect something important. - Added an ability to disable progress bar splash screen when launching packed application, even if it takes a long time to unpack it. [#8]
- Added an option to use windowless unpacker tool (as it was before v1.3.4). This makes console window no longer appear for a split-second when launching a packed application. It's recommended for most users. [#16]
There's a downside to using windowless unpacker: you can not read stdout or write to stdin of a packed app [#3], but if you don't need to do that then you should just leave windowless mode checked. If something doesn't work, then try re-packing without windowless unpacker. - Appacker no longer saves settings in the registry. Now it launches with default settings, unless you save last used settings in an
.inifile. [#14]- There're buttons for creating and deleting settings file in Advanced Options.
- You may choose to save settings in
AppDatadirectory or in theappacker.inifile placed next to theappacker.exe. Local file takes priority if both are present.
Known issue:
- Some application's icons cause an error in a library that i use to extract icons from exe files. I have noticed this only with Aseprite so far and i don't really want to deal with it right now, so i just added a fall back to a default icon in such situation. So please manually assign an icon in such case and report an issue on GitHub if you find more applications that fail to extract an icon.