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Portable App Development

Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

Using Chris's Launcher

Submitted by LinkSlayer64 on November 24, 2009 - 4:51pm

Hi I've been wondering if using Chris's launcher is still not supported, I'd like to put out some launchers and well, it's the easiest way for me to do it since I'd rather focus on learning another programming language right now (working on a game heh, I'm doing C# but I KNOW I should be doing C++ for portability and abscence of any needed .NET or any other dependencies that you need to install...it's just easier to use XNA studio, and I don't have a lot of time to program... I'm CRAZY!)

Anyway as I was saying, yeah, if I use Chris's launcher will it be kept from going official?

Simple changing of portable process name

Submitted by goto206 on November 24, 2009 - 3:17am

First of all - Hello - this is my first post on the forum. Hopefully not the last.

I would like to now, is there any simple way of changing a name of existing portable app. For instance - portablefirefox.exe runs a process firefox.exe. That's obvious. But I would like to change names of this processes. Of course, simple change the name of firefox.exe will couse that portablefirefox.exe won't find and won't run an app.

Thanks in advance,

goto206

Device Doctor driver updater

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Submitted by Device Doctor on November 23, 2009 - 2:52pm

Hi All!

Just wanted to post our first attempt at making our free driver updater portable:
http://www.devicedoctor.com/device-doctor-portable.php

It scans any computer for updated drivers and will download the ones you want from our fast servers. It's completely free with no adware.

We haven't done a portable version before but I hope it's good enough to be added to PortableApps.

Thanks,

Collin

Launcher Abort

Submitted by prapper on November 20, 2009 - 7:57pm

In the launchers, the labels 'NoProgramEXE' and 'WarnAnotherInstance' end with 'Abort'. OK, but why don't they 'Goto TheEnd' instead and unload the plugins/clean the TEMP directory etc. while they're at it? It would seem much more sensible and I can't see any problem.

Is there something I'm missing here that would make this inadvisable?

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