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Concerning PAM, PNG and Delphi

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Submitted by LOGAN-Portable on January 27, 2008 - 12:17pm

I read that PA menu does not support transparent images (except for icons apparently) so the personal image cannot be GIF or PNG.

Has the issue been resolved yet?

If not, please check out http://pngdelphi.sourceforge.net/
A component for Delphi to use PNG images Wink

Hopefully the new PAM (and the MOD's) will be able to offer support for transparent images. Looks much better, doesn't it?

If for some reason PNG is not wanted, maybe an ICO will do just fine Smile

Use Portable Apps on Laptop ?

Submitted by joncowcare on January 26, 2008 - 10:48pm

Hi all,
This is probably a silly question but is there any reason why I should'nt use Portable Apps on my laptop instead of using the full versions of the software ?
I ask because due to finances I could only afford a "Special Offer" laptop and consequently have a 40gb HD.
Ok, it's not that small but I do a lot of video etc, work and it soon gets clogged up so every saving of space I can make is important.
Thanks for a great product !
Regards,
Jon

Can you convert the entire PortableApps suite and all the applications into an online based web app

Submitted by Amit G on January 26, 2008 - 8:49am

This would ensure 2 things you can download portable apps and at the same time have an online account with all the applications hosted there so that you can manipulate all the files on your computer or on your flash drive using Online Apps version,no need to give space to store files,music,video and other stuff on the online version and only host the apps as online apps,is it possible...if so then in future the network become the computer and how about and I don't know this hosting portableapps as as online version on facebook using Facebook Platform so that maximum number of people can get

Apps Won't Run From Moved Partitions

Submitted by edlight on January 26, 2008 - 5:24am

Using bootitng I moved the data partition that my portable apps are on, and the two installs of Win XP, to different positions on the hard drive (to make room to enlarge another partition). Now the apps will start ok from one of the XPs but not the other. They used to start fine from both. If I copy them to a 4th partition, they will run ok from it. I'd like to keep using the original one -- is there some way to fix this?

Bad News: Jury Duty

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Submitted by John T. Haller on January 25, 2008 - 4:39pm

As most of you know, I've been stuck in jury duty this week. Unfortunately, I've been selected for the jury in a criminal case. It's full time every day about an hour from me and expected to last 1 to 2 weeks.

So, I'll be a bit out of the loop workwise. But, I'd still like to get an app a day out next week. I'll be working every night on PortableApps.com stuff while doing jury duty. I think as long as we have some of our experienced forum members and developers helping to vet the apps currently posted as development tests, we can do it.

Stolen PNotes

Submitted by lamer on January 25, 2008 - 7:21am

Hi all!
First of all I want to thank to all beta testing staff for helping me to release version 3.0 of PNotes!
Today, while surfing on sites where PNotes is published, I've happened to find out its clone from previous version named NotesRobot, which is offered for sell at _http://www.railfox.com by $20. The guys simply got my source code and recompiled it without changes under different name. Even the help file stayed the same. The only difference is that clicking on "Show License" on About dialog does not bring up the GPL file.

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