Need an experienced developer for a portable app in the Boston area
I have an application for the use of a flash drive.
Application pretty standard itself but for a large market
Don Hutchinson
don.hutchinson@comcast.net
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Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.
I have an application for the use of a flash drive.
Application pretty standard itself but for a large market
Don Hutchinson
don.hutchinson@comcast.net
Is there any way of making an add-on to an existing portable app?
I'm making a portable bochs and thinking of having the included dlxlinux folder as an optional add-on to save on space (from 9mb to 4mb).
Hey guys.. i've been pulling my hair out these past few days attempting my first language selection from the installer.
I've dissected LibreOffice, WinDjView for help.
Im making a PAF launcher/installer for Adobe Photoshop.. im sick of the bloat it comes with.
This is for my own personal use.. so no copyright infringement will be shared here.
But .. here's my custom.nsh, which i have placed in Launcher:
http://pastebay.com/147848
And here's part of my Launcher.ini (the part that's relevant):
http://pastebay.com/147849
Hello.
PortableApps.com Launcher put RuntimeData in Data directory, and check it on startup to know if last exit is a good exit. In some case this may cause problems. For example:
Hello everyone.. i have searched this entire website, Wiki, and the Internet to try and figure this out... but so far am unsuccessful.
My app is pretty much done but i want to implement the language.
I've done language with INI successfully.
This is my first XML and the style is completely different than the examples I've found on here and the Internet.
Here's the XML:
http://pastebay.com/147154
If anyone can help me figure out the:
[FileWrite1] & [LanguageFile]
I created a portable version of the R language for statistical computing and graphics. R is available as Free Software under the terms of the Free Software Foundation's GNU General Public License in source code form. There is a portable version of R available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/rportable/files/ but it is hard to find and has not been updated recently. I was wondering if we could add this app to the portableapps.com site.
The appinfo for the version I built is:
[Format]
Type=PortableApps.comFormat
Version=2.0
[Details]
Name=R Portable
AppID=R-Portable
I've been using and enjoying the fruits of your labor for many years now, and just wanted to say thank you for all of your hard work and dedication!
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sbw/
I want to make this scientific application portable, but it is confusing to me how because it is a whole set of .exe's that depend on each other.
Could I get some guidance on if it is possible to package this as a portable app without any source code changes?
Thanks in advance.
I am just wondering if there are any of the Portable Apps that are 64bit specefic. I think that all of them are currently 32bit & to some extent that makes sense as it give the developers a broader range of apps & potential. However I also think that is a dwindling process & was wondering about a fork to 64bit.
frosty
hello everybody!
im a frequent visitor here.
all of my apps. are either PAF, NSIS, but are all portable except for the few that need to be installed.
i have been using NSIS to make my portable apps. but decided to switch to PAF because of John @ PortableFreeware.com.
I have successfully built a few apps already.. but i have a few nagging questions i hope can be clarified here
1. If the application stores it's settings in the registry:
- do i have to use [FileMove] to back it up in addition to [registry]activate=true? or is setting the registry key to be portabilized enough?