Moved here:
https://portableapps.com/node/8682
I only recently decided to create a forum account but i have been following Portable apps from very close by. I want to thank John for his great work to keep this site and the apps up to date! I made my own Portable apps menu inspired by John and an other program (ViStart ).
Anyway enough talking! Below you can find a link to my creation. (It is written with Visual Basic 2005 Express edition)
Download link: http://www.sendspace.com/file/smfrfz
Screenshot: http://img463.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pmenuyz9.png
Source code: http://www.sendspace.com/file/cq46im
A theme pack: (they can be found separately on the location below)
http://www.sendspace.com/file/s2p351
To Do:
- Fix 120 DPI bug
- Allow for the button names and paths to be configurable.
- Allow for the program used to search to be configurable, as well as the address to which it searches.
- Option to disable the fade effect when minimizing to tray
- Always show tray icon and never the taskbar item
- Allow theming (background, mouseover pictures)
- ".locale" support or anything alike
- A manner of getting rid of the programs/documents location path and instead only showing the filename and icon in the list
- Change the PMenu icon (I'd be very grateful to anyone that is willing to make me or provide me one)
- Add eject script
- Show folder structure instead of only files
Themes
Themes can be downloaded from the ViStart Skin forum
Credit goes to the creators!
How to
- Download the skin pack of your choice
- Extract the downloaded pack
- Place the theme folder in the folder "Themes"
- Start PMenu
- Click the little arrow next to the minimise button
- Select your preferred theme
- Close and restart PMenu
PMenu 1.0.0.6 changelog:
- Enhanced Theming making it more easier to switch between themes
- Fixed 120 DPI bug
- Added the ability to add up to 6 fully customizable buttons
- Some minor enhancements
PMenu 1.0.0.5 changelog:
- PMenu now only displays filenames instead of the absolute path
PMenu 1.0.0.4 changelog:
- PMenu now also safes it's location before minimising
- Changed buttons text so it's more like PAM and Vista
- Added new button (the arrow)
- Some Visual Improvements
PMenu 1.0.0.3 changelog:
- Added theming ability. To customize PMenu just replace the files in "resources" and "rollover" with your own icons. (Pre-made themes can be found above)
- Users can now add their own userimage. Add any 48x48 file named "user.bmp" to the PMenu rootpath and PMenu will display this instead of the local computers userimage. (If you don't add one it will search for the local computers userimage)
- "My Documents" button will now only display files in the "Documents" folder and will not search in the subdirectories
- "My Programs" button will search for any *.exe,*.bat,*.cmd,*.com,*.btm in its directory and subdirectories. (This list can be modified on request)
PMenu 1.0.0.2 changelog:
- Changed PMenu so it now uses PortableApps folder structure (install PMenu in the same directory as "StartPortableApps.exe")
- PMenu now saves it's last location
- If PMenu can't detect a userpicture it will now not show a userpicture at all (so also no error image)
PMenu 1.0.0.1 changelog:
- Added the option to choose what search engine to use
- Added the option to disable the fade effect when minimizing (increases performance speed on slower systems)
- It now always shows the tray icon and never the taskbar item
I expect quite some bugs as this is only BETA. (I tested it on Windows XP Pro SP2 english version)
Note that it's only my first real project as i'm really new to programming. (Learning this on my own)
Please post comments and bugs.
PieterK