The application I’m working on has simple functionality, but has one requirement that’s giving me trouble. The application will be run from a thumb drive, and requires access to write a file to said thumb drive, so browser-based javascript/html is out.
My ideal goal is to have a single script that can be double clicked from mac’s finder or windows explorer that will kick-off the update of this file that is stored on the usb drive. Is this possible?
I’ve come across similar questions (OK Programming language from USB stick with no installation), but everything I’ve found would still require separate starting points for each script. For example, if I put Lua binaries on the usb stick I will have to have a separate script for each platform I want to support.
i really think it’s not possible. otherwise, JAVA, Adobe Air and other platforms wouldn’t have been created in the hope of a cross-platform language. besides, mac, linux and windows have different “executable” file types.
how bad can 3 (mac, windows, linux) start-points be? they could operate on the same file anyway.