Portable App Development

I've noticed this: some programs that apear to work portably, actually leave behind files in: C:\Documents and Settings\*User Directory*\Application Data (it's a hidden file) and in other places. When developing apps, it would probably be best to make sure your application doesn't do that.

Programs that do this:
uTorrent
Inkscape
Notepad++
USBOpera (I think so, but then again, since the physical folder is called "Opera" perhaps only the install version of Opera does this.)

Thankfully it only does this to the folder of the user you are logged in as.

Hi

We have released a new Portable App, Yadabyte Passwords.

This is a very simple, very secure (AES 256) password store that is free and open source.

It can be downloaded from:

http://www.yadabyte.com/Yadabyte_Portables.php

All comments greatly appreciated:)

Best wishes,

Mat Ripley

I'm new to using Portable Apps.
I just bought a 1GB USB stick last week!

But I use Thunderbird 1.5 and the version of Portable Thunderbird is 1.07

Doesn't 1.07 have security bugs in it?

Is there a 1.5 version due out soon?

I've just finished working on a portable Scribus. Modified from a portable scribus here: http://www.winpenpack.com/ (modifed for smaller size, added GS fonts, etc.)

I posted about it here:
http://www.quate.net/newsnet/read.php?id=31

I've gotten Photoshop to work when using UPX, but it always messes up ImageReady, and then ImageReady won't launch, do you know what I'm doing wrong?

-pyoung09259

If you make a non-open source application, auto-launchable, are you violating the copy right law?

Hi, What happnes if you try to make MS office portable?? I mean just launch it automatically.

I have released Portable Psi with the help of Deuce!! Psi is an excellent Jabber client.

http://www.portasoft.org/e107/page.php?17

-Justin

I'm having a problem getting my application to load. This is most likely my lack of understanding of how the "chrome://" works. I have set up a simple XUL file to act as my application. It is the find file example from the XUL tutorial. Below is the directory structure I'm using:

F:\PortableApps\XULApps
\XULRunner
\CARS (My App)
Start.BAT (used for starting the application)
Application.ini
\Chrome
chrome.manifest (which is empty)
\CARS
Appstart.xul (the application)
\defaults
\preferences
prefs.js (which has the following line (pref("toolkit.defaultChromeURI", "chrome://chrome/cars/AppStart.xul");)

Description A launcher, based on a bit of John's code and mostly mine, to launch any program, provided you need command lines. I made this so everyone doesn't have to make a new launcher for every program. Also includes Reg Rapper 1.0
Download Link http://www.portasoft.org/e107/download.php?view.10