Portable App Development

Hello All,

Good day.

Having a USB Disk with all the necessary Portable Apps is cool and very handy. But it lacks something.

I was wondering if anybody has successfully iinstalled a Windows XP embedded with all our beloved portable applications still working. This setup I believe would certainly make our USB drives independent from the main OS of a PC.

Any advice or tips that would shed light to this would be very much appreciated.

Thanks All

At my community college we have a problem with losing our jump drives. Could someone create a splash screen app that we could enter our info such as

"if found please return to..."

something that could maybe open when protable apps is started? If there is such a product please let me know. Thanks everyone for all your hard work and keep up the great innovations.

I just released ASuite 1.4 stable version. For who doesn't know it, ASuite is an application launcher (like famous PStart, but ASuite is opensource launcher ) for USB sticks, hard drives, iPods, etc...

Major changes:
- Added function to sort list
- Added new launcher options (custom tray icon, font options, hide tabs, etc...)
- Added scheduler
- Added window for Scan folder
- Added Update System
- Rewrited function Search
- Bugfix

Project page (on sourceforge)

I know why, it's because I turned the DPI setting
in windows to 150% (144pdi).
I have to do this, because it's a Dell notebook
with 1920x1600 pixels. Without the higher DPI, i
cannot read anything.
A lot of programs have problems with this setting,
as some elements (fonts, graphics, widgets) automaticly
become bigger, but the program does not enlarge it's
windows.
This should not be difficult to solve.
Would one of the developers be so kind and have a
look at this problem?

-- Karl

Ok i made a portable game which is 100mb and when i run the game in portable it take long time till it starts well i wanna no how to make a loading bar which can tell me how long it will take to load the game. i got a protable called flash 8 pro when i run it it has a loading bar like this ---> http://img3.freeimagehosting.net/image.php?532ee96586.jpg
can any1 tell me how to do tht im a noob so make it understandable for me
thnx

Hello,

I would like to know if it's possible to make paths in files like
FirefoxPortable.ini accept absolute values. Clearly, I'm using
Firefox and I want to store the program itself on the hard drive,
keeping the profile on my flash drive (or my network drive).
So I would like the example below would work:

[FirefoxPortable]
FirefoxDirectory=C:\App\firefox
ProfileDirectory=G:\Data\profile
SettingsDirectory=G:\Data\settings
PluginsDirectory=G:\Data\plugins

This could save some space on the flash drive and speed up the
startup process. Any suggestions on how to do that?

I'm fairly new at trying to create a portable app. Without going into too much detail, the application I'm trying to make portable stores quite a bit of information in the "application data" folder on windows. How do I localize this? I looked in all files, including the installer and app .exe's and can't find where this is specified. How do I "crack open" this application to make it look in the local folder instead of the application data folder of the computer it's on?

Thanks in advance.

Before anyone mouths off that I need to search, I did. I was wondering what compression mode John uses when using 7-Zip to make a self-extracting paf.exe file. I understand that the paf part is a hack. Thanks.

Kevin

We have some live Linux CD's

Portable Linux would be nice so we can save things.

Portableapps for Linux be nice to.

I know John has said that he creating a NSIS based installer, but instead of writing the code i think he should use installjammer to create the project, i he did it would take 5 minutes, 10 at the most to make the new installer. Just an idea, it would move the project along faster