Portable App Development

I'm reviving BluePlanet's wonderful Virus Scanning Script to make the next generation.
As of now, I'm busy cleaning up the spaghetti code, so while that happens, I would love some feature suggestions (I'm also going to try a little forum hack, please post all your feature requests under the feature requests reply ;)).

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First of all, I want to thank everybody involved making PortableApps.com possible!!!

Since I have been playing around with making my apps portable, I have had sleepless nights about replacing absolute paths!
With the `macro` ReplaceInFile` it is possible up to a certain extend. But with a couple of settings files, replace didn't work. When a file contains raw data, the settings became unusable. As well I came across some *.ini files which were in some diffrent format and made ReplaceInFile useless.

I've seen that a few people have tried to create a PortableApps launcher for ImgBurn and stopped developing it (ImgBurn Portable (v2.4.0.0), proper PAM/standalone portable app package - February 29, 2009, ImgBurn Portable Launcher Dev 5 "Need Testers" - 2008-06-30).

I'm trying (and failing miserably) to make Sharp-E portable. I noticed that there is no "quit" or "exit" button on the program. I have no experience in making stuff make stuff close and I was wondering if anyone knew how to use NSIS (or whatever language you use) to make an executable to exit out of this program.

This is probably more a pipedream than anything, But I would love a small cygwin install without all the high diskspace requirement install such as X-windows systems. just a lite cywgin bash shell with most dev apps, or compile apps -> m4, glibc -> gcc -> coreutils -> tar -> grep -> dash -> ksh -> bison -> gawk etc etc.

Or at least some implementations of GCC (mingw) and JDK and/or other languages to use with notepad++ portable.

I've ripped out the Application Button engine from geek.menu and built a component that handles pretty much everything for the creation of buttons from the PortableApps directory.

It increases memory efficiency (though not as much as I had hoped, but also gets away from the maintenance of multiple StringLists with matched information, which always annoyed me.

Integrating this panel into the PA beta is probably going to take quite a bit of work, but far less than writing a category engine from scratch.

Hi!

Thanks for very nice software i use almost everyday for everything

At the moment there is only one thing i miss, it would be very nice if the menu adds bat scripts to the menu as it was an application

Now i have to compile me an own exe that opens the bat script or browse to the right directory and open it.

Thanks

I had this idea for quite a while.
Problem: Menus are slow... and bulky and rather inefficient when you come to think about clicking a 16x16 icon in the system tray, that might even be hidden (Win+Alt+Space would fix this, but that's not the point).
Solutions that work 50%:

• Something blazing fast, like PStart or ASuite (my current system)
• Autorunning the apps
• Just going into the PortableApps Folder and Double Clicking on it

Just wondering...

What should we do with apps such as gedit... which are suppose to have no caps in it's name?

geditPortable or GeditPortable?

(Just using gedit as an example).

Let me begin by thanking everyone involved in the PortableApps.com project. I totally identify with the Open Source, Portable & Clean software philosophy.

I first found this site while searching for tools i could use from an USB Flash Drive, but i have recently been replacing most of my system's applications with portable ones.
Which brings me to the topic of this post: i have been trying to integrate Firefox (3.5.2) into my system (Windows XP Professional, SP3).