Portable App Development

I know the majority of PortableApps releases don't rely on XULRunner, but some do. Since XULRunner weighs in at a hefty 22MB, wouldn't it be a good idea to create one XULRunner installer, which would put XULRunner in Common Files (like Java Portable does with Java), instead of bundling XULRunner with every app that needs it?
PAL could also get another Activate entry to benefit from this:

[Activate]
XULRunner=true

Has anyone here had any trouble with RegShot on Windows 7?

I usually do my PortableApp development on a WinXP VM, but the graphics drivers don't work for some games, so I tried running RegShot on Windows 7 and it stops responding, never to return. I tried running it as administrator, but that didn't fix the problem. Has anyone else had this problem?

Are there any other programs with similar functionality that other people have used that might work on Windows 7?

Thanks,

Andy

I was looking for how to make an icon appear on the tray with Nsis. I found this: http://nsis.sourceforge.net/NotifyIcon_plug-in

but its not working. Not even the examples. I compiled them and they only showed a blank spot where the icon should be.

Any ideas?

Hi, I'm new here, and I want to get my development environment portable.
At beginning I wanted to make some "easy" apps portable. For example K-Meleon, CCleaner. So I wrote some easy "launcher.ini" and named them CCleanerPortable.ini and so on. The PortableApps Launcher Generator generated me the required Launcher files. But starting them don't work. They crash immediatly with the error:

.../local settings/Temp/nsa21F.tmp/launcher.ini not found.

I have no idea why. Please help.

Solution: PackageVersion in Appinfo.ini has to be like 1.2.3.4.

EraserDrop Version: 2.1.0.0
OS: WinXP SP3

Hi,

I think this may be a slight issue with EraserDrop Portable.

Scenario: Use EraserDrop Portable so much that have it to auto-launch on system startup. Have also set a shortcut to it that passes the 'exit' parameter to EraserDrop. Put the shortcut in the Start Menu 'Shutdown' folder - so EraserDrop should be shutdown as the system shuts down. This works fine except for what is happening in the %TEMP% folder.

Hello,

Update: The update is planed for gvimportable version, https://portableapps.com/node/19705. Yay! Vim is the most amazing program ever!

Some apps' launchers (e.g GnuCash) take a long time to tidy up after their app has closed so it would be nice to have the option for a splash screen to show so that one knows when the app is completedly finished.

I am trying to make the above software into a portable version (http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-YouTube-to-MP3-Converter.htm). However I am not to sure what to do after steps 11 in the tutorial https://portableapps.com/node/14868
Can anyone tell me what I should be doing here. I have all the recommended software but I seemed to have hit a snag.

Hello all,

I have modded the platform executable to allow for sorting the favorites. All you have to do is modify the ini file to provide a numeric rank to your favorites entries. The higher the number the higher the position. If the rank is the same, then they are sorted alphabetically.

It also works out that if you give a negative number to a favorites entry, then it will still show up unbolded like the normal apps, and at the bottom of the list. If you don't manually modify the ini, all other functionality is exactly the same as before.

Dear PortableApps.com Dev's,

I have had a good look at GoldenDict (http://goldendict.org/) It's probably the best freeware (or opensource) dictionary app available. IMHO it is crying out for a launcher. It is inherently portable, just requiring a directory named "portable" in the main GoldenDict directory (see the FAQ).

I have had a good look at StarDict, as well as a few others. GoldenDict has an excellent GUI, and can manage a wide range of dictionary formats, including Babylon and StarDict.

PortableApps.com really needs a good dictionary app. This looks very good to me.