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Pocket C++

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Submitted by pagey_1_1999 on October 10, 2014 - 6:42am

Hi I am fairly new here so bear with me.

I love the Portable Apps solution and have been looking to get applications i use and love to work in the proper way.

The mini project i have been looking at is a mobile c++ editor and compiler.

I am learning C++ and in a windows environment it is very difficult to not use visual studio.
But i want it portable on a USB so i can play with the language without needing to install anything

Metapad

Submitted by PortableGood on October 6, 2014 - 12:11pm

Metapad is a great free text editor. The author has released the source.

The site is: http://liquidninja.com/metapad/

In order to make it portable, I think all you have to do is create metapad.ini in the install folder, and it will automatically use it instead of the registry.

This would make a great addition to PortableApps.

WinMerge2011

Submitted by PortableGood on October 6, 2014 - 12:07pm

Currently, PortableApps offers WinMerge. Unfortunately, WinMerge has known bugs and hasn't really been updated in quite some time.

There is a popular fork of WinMerge, called WinMerge2011, that has received significant updates. It is open source, and so all updates can be viewed. I have nothing to do with the development... I'm just a user of that software.

Remove Empty Directories

Submitted by mwayne on October 6, 2014 - 11:03am

Program: Remove Empty Directories
License: Open Source
Description: From the homepage:

  • Shows empty directories before deleting them
  • Supports multiple delete modes (including Delete to recycle bin) (Version 2.2)
  • Allows white and black listing of directories by using filter lists
  • Can detect directories with empty files as empty

Website: http://www.jonasjohn.de/red.htm

BitTorrent

Submitted by ot4ku on October 5, 2014 - 11:47am

Hello,
im using µtorrent and bittorrent, and now that we have µtorrent here portable i would like to see the original bittorrent also as portable app. Its the same developement team, its based on the same code, and it looks pretty much the same, so i guess it should be a lot more easy to make it potable because there is already µtorrent.

http://www.bittorrent.com/

Its the best was to run two torrent clients at the same time, thanks!

CCleaner Addition

Submitted by burtguidry on October 1, 2014 - 11:44am

CCleaner has a portable version of its software that I use a lot. I know it does not meet the criteria of free source software but if it could be added here it would make it easier to update the version on my USB drive. The link is listed below.

KeePass 2 seems no longer to be maintained - can you take over?

Submitted by Randomcore on September 28, 2014 - 8:46am

Actually a portable version of KeePass 2 is linked from the developers web site to this location:

http://www.professioneinformatica.eu/Products/PortableApplications/tabid...

But it's pretty outdated and the maintainer doesn't respond to users feedback.

Can you take over and provide us with the upcoming releases?

TIA

Regards,
- Stephan

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