GammaLauncher

A simple launcher for vvvv gamma

Was ist das

GammaLauncher is a simple application that allows to launch vvvv gamma instances with specific arguments from a simple GUI.

Installation

The latest release is available here. You can choose between an installer and a portable version.

Usage

Settings

Open the app and go to the Settings tab. You'll find the following sections

Launcher Settings

vvvv installations folder: this is where the launcher will look for your installed vvvversions. It defaults to C:\Program Files\vvvv
Nuget override : if you want to override the default nuget folder with your own, specify it here
Extra args : arbitrary arguments the launcher will use when starting a vvvv instance

Package repositories

All folders you add in this section will be used as package sources. More information here

Editable packages

Allows listed packages to be modified. Otherwise, vvvv precompiles them and they're read-only. More information here.

Updates

When the app starts, it looks online for the most recent vvvv preview and stable builds, both for win-x64 and arm64. If a more recent version is available online, the Updates tab will show a * character. You can then browse the available builds and click the Install button to download and start the installer. A Changes button allows to view the changelog for this version right in the app. You can also click Check for updates or press SHIFT + F5 at any time to maually look for updates.

Opening documents

You can drag and drop any VL document from your file browser on the launcher to open it in a new vvvv instance.

Features

Run vvvv instances with any combination of command line arguments from a simple GUI
Install and uninstall vvvversions with a single click
Quickly access useful folders such as installed nugets, default nugets, package sources and so on
Quickly kill all running vvvv instances
Quickly start new instances with a specific document by dropping it on the launcher

Contributing

All suggestions and pull requests are welcome, don't hesitate to report problems and share suggestions in the issues or on the vvvv forum.

Building

If you want to build GammaLauncher, you'll have to install nuke. For more information you can have a look here, but in a nutshell you should open a Powershell and

dotnet tool install Nuke.GlobalTool --global

Then, cd in the /nuke folder. You'll then be able to do the following actions

Clean

This target will clean all artifacts from previous builds, if any (compiled Launcher versions, Inno installers, props files and so on). To run it, do

nuke clean

Compile

This target compiles GammaLauncher in both win-x64 and arm64 directly from the command line. There, you'll have to supply a --version argument, with the version you're building. For instance, if you were building version 10.5.3 of the Launcher, you'd do

nuke compile --version 10.5.3

Executing this target will also run the clean target described above under the hood. Also, noted that the target does it in a somewhat smart way that it automatically detected which vvvvc.exe to run by parsing the version GammaLauncher.vl was saved with. So make sure you have that version installed on your system, otherwise you'll get a build error!

Build installers

This target packages the binaries from the previous step in cool installers. For this one, you'll have to have Inno Setup installed on your machine! This target will obviously run clean and compile under the hood for you. To run it, do the following

nuke buildinstaller --version 10.5.3

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