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Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

registry settings in file installer.ini

Submitted by bruinsmm on February 28, 2010 - 4:23pm

I'm make an application portable.
The application use some registry settings.
First i have export the registry settings:


Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ODBC\ODBC.INI\ArgusCold]
"FULCREATE"="D:\\Argus Cold"

Then i put the registry settings in the file Installer.ini:


[CopyLocalFiles]
CopyLocalFiles=true
CopyFromRegPath=HKLM\Software\ODBC\ODBC.INI\ArgusCold\FULCREATE
CopyFromRegKey=D:\Argus Cold

But it does not works. The application give a error message.
What went wrong, who can help me ?

Customizable but Common Portable Apps Splashscreen

Submitted by act4art on February 28, 2010 - 1:08pm

Hello,

I'm new to Portable Apps and converting some apps which I need.
Now I'm searching this (such a) Portable Apps Splashscreen,
which I can customize. Probalby there is a XCF/PSD file
available. Because there look all similar. SumatrPDF, Gimp2, etc.
But where? Can't find such a "template"

I had found a new portable app (author made it not portable, but it is portable)

Submitted by KOLANICH on February 26, 2010 - 11:27am

I had found a new portable app (author made it not portable, but it is portable)
I makes no registry entries or files
it is The Regex Coach
unpack, add splash screen and sfx and it is ready to use
http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/

Splash screens

Submitted by temp4746 on February 26, 2010 - 5:55am

Some applications have their own splash screen.
Maybe in those that it is appropriate you should just add a PortableApps.com logo to the corner, instead of completely changing the splash screen so we wont lose the splash screen image of the original App?

For example: GIMP

I got a few questions...

Pyromaniac's picture
Submitted by Pyromaniac on February 23, 2010 - 10:46am

I want to make a launcher that launches an app after it closes another one...

I'm trying to make Abobe Flash Player Portable and I made a little exe that deletes the cookies you make on the computer and replaces them with original cookies that were on it (if any) but I don't know how to edit the Firefox Portable Launcher so that it launches the "cookie monster" after you close firefox.

uTorrent 2.0

Submitted by justcurious on February 22, 2010 - 6:31pm

The newest version of uTorrent has been out for a while. Are there any plans to update the Portable Apps package?

Yes, uTorrent can already be made portable but the package by the Portable Apps team is a much more elegant solution.

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