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How to change the Pidgin Portable SPLASH SCREEN

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Submitted by pooley on February 11, 2011 - 9:55am

Hi there,

Just tried the pidgin portable version, works like a charm so first of all I'd like to thank the PA and Pidgin folks for the WLM alternative (which was a labeled "crosoft PITA").

I was just wondering, I created my own spashscreen (as the default one is a little bit ... not my cup of tea) How do I put mine on the *.exe ?
If you want to see it I'll send it to you, why not put mine in the boot of the *.exe

thank you in advance for the answer.

greetings from France.

Portable Pidgin vs. portable Opera

Submitted by thopetersson on December 31, 2010 - 7:38am

Hi all

I just recently went to full mobile, using pidgin and opera under WinXP. On some developers' forum someone posted a patch file that allows Pidgin to use different browsers. My question: could this work on a Windows based system? From what I understand, the patch modifies some parts of GTK file(s), but I guess Portable Pidgin (the Windows executable) has only the necessary elements of GTK so the patch would not have any effect (also, the Linux version has got a "Browser" option in the preferences, which can't be found on the Windows version).

Pidgin periodically crashing since 2.7.7

Submitted by Gnemesis on December 30, 2010 - 11:50am

Pidgin has started crashing recently... (I am currently running Pidgin 2.7.9) this is the error message shown when run thru debugger:

Unhandled exception at 0x77059d15 in pidgin-portable.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000065.

Any ideas what might be the issue? The only recently-added plugin I use is SIPE 1.10.0 (Windows), but this error occurs even if that is not installed.

PuTTY: Where is the diff to the original version

Submitted by shaiay on December 26, 2010 - 4:46am

Hi,

Thank you for your efforts at creating the portable version of putty.

Maybe I missed something obvious, but do you publish the modified source code for the putty portable app? Better yet is there an actual "diff" of the changes made by you for portability against the original code?.

Thank you again

FileZilla: connection unreliable

Submitted by ottosykora on December 21, 2010 - 5:31pm

Does someone has experience with current versions of filezilla when transferring large number of files?

I had to shift some server contents to other location. Ok , took the tool I was using frequently so far, the filezilla portable. But to my surprise the connection was very bad, many repetitions of files transmission, all taking time for ever etc.

Tried then the very old wsftp, and all was perfect, also tried the fireftp in the firefox and this went also fine.

Are any known issues or can the filezilla be somehow tweaked to work as it used to?

Pidgin: emoticons problem

Submitted by supe30 on December 20, 2010 - 12:36pm

Dear Forum!

I have a problem with my portable pidgin. my pidgin dont show to me the emoticons what others use. i just se a little icon with red X.
the custon emoticons what i used, works fine, everybody can see those.
the normal emoticons works fine, i have problem with the customs.
today i installed the 2.7.8 but the problem still stand.
what can i do with it?

thanks
supe

Pidgin: Perl disabled?

Submitted by otaku on December 17, 2010 - 9:08am

Hi portable apps community,

I was wondering why pidgin portable's Perl support is disabled by default (according to the Build-Information menu item) but yet contains a perl.dll file in the plugins folder. Is there a particular reason for that? Pardon

I'm not sure if I'm the only one, but I would love to use my perl plugins in the portable version of pidgin as well Smile

Miranda: Two processes instead of one?

Submitted by janek.sid on December 12, 2010 - 2:27pm

When I switched from ordinary portable Miranda instalation to PortableApps Miranda, I have noticed, there are two Miranda processes instead of one. I am curious what is causing this? Why standard portable Miranda needs just one process, and PortabeApps Miranda needs two processes?
Here is screenshot of these processes:

http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/6672/portableappsmiranda.jpg

Best regards.
John

Pidgin: Google Talk problem

Submitted by crag24 on December 3, 2010 - 10:48am

I'm sure that i tried every combination on internet about pidgin gtalk settings. But none of them worked for me.

Then a crazy idea came to my mind; "what if i install pidgin and try Google Talk again?"
Answer is: "Hell YEAH!" ^_^ It working perfect with installation.

But nor Portable Pidgin neither x-Pidgin can't access. It always gives me this error
"blablabla@gmail.com/ disabled
Server does not use any supported authentication method"

Please help me! I want to use this for gtalk too =/

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