I have six Open Office menu options in the Portable Apps menu: Base, Draw, Math, Writer, Calc and Impress. In my Portable Apps/OpenOfficePortable folder I have seven exe files; one for each of the above plus one that simply launches the Open Office application.
I have removed the six apps from the Portable Apps menu by renaming .exe to .ex_, but I can't get the PortableApps menu to acknowledge the OpenOfficePortable.exe application.
Can it be done? If so, how?
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Officially, not yet. PortableApps Menu uses a hack to only show the multi icons and not the base icon. This hack will go away once support for PortableApps Format's multi-icon setup is added to the Menu.
Until then, you can delete all the OOP launchers and use the OpenOffice.org Portable Single Icon Hack Launcher instead.
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John
Thanks again for your support. I simply copied the file into my PortableApps Open Office folder and refreshed the Portable Apps menu icons. Lo and behold up pops the icon I wanted and it launches a "generic" Open Office blank template. Just what I wanted. Far less clutter on the Portable Apps menu.
Andy
Is there any reason this is not on the OOOP page under support?
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Simple, it isn't supported or officially recommended. It gets overwritten when you upgrade OOP. And it'll be unnecessary within the next month (I've already got test code for the multi-icons support in PortableApps Menu).
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