Portable App Development

Maybe I'm searching for the wrong keywords, but I got disappointed with my U3 drive on a trip to Europe last month when none of the internet cafe and hotel PCs would allow U3 to run. This then, of course, wouldn't let me get to my Portable Apps and files. I'm thinking of removing U3 and just making it a standard USB stick, but am finding some of the U3 programs seem to be U3 dedicated (Avast, WinRar, etc).

PortableAppsMenu should only have one running instance.

I leave the PortableAppsMenu.exe program running (in a hurry, it's just easy to shut the programs and pull rather than click the little icon and hit exit) between use, and when insert my USB key again, i find myself starting up PortableAppMenu again. This creates two instances.

I would like PortableAppMenu to open the current running instance's menu should it be run twice accidentally.

PLEASE NOTE: THIS POST IS NOT ABOUT ROMS OR PIRACY. PLEASE DO NOT ASK ME, OR MAKE REQUESTS IN THIS THREAD FOR ROMS OR WHERE TO FIND THEM.

I've come up with a very low-ball approach to executing batch files from PAM using a ResHacked stand alone Flash Playe(Projector).

I've had great success moving flash games and even Warcraft III on to my thumbdrive using this technique, most recently Nestopia.

Enough already, where's the darn download link already?

Here: http://rapidshare.com/files/37506021/Nestopia137bin-portable999.zip.html

i have written a fully functional 2-person scrabble game, that, if worked on (there are a few know bugs here and there) could definitely be a sweet addition to portable apps.

its written in VB (yes i know...) for my computer programming class. id be willing to release the code to anyone who wants to help me improve it.

heres a screenshot: (yes i know you can see the other person's hand, but what can i say...)

http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/3153/scrabbleiu9.png

Hi.

I've written a launcher (for a game called Adom). Sadly the app is hit by the working directory bug I know it's fixed in beta2 pr2. But is there any other way around it? I would like the launcher to be more universal and not limited to one prerelease version. Beside, where is that version available for download? Can't find a thread/download at sourceforge.

Cheers.

Here's a new menu for you folks to play with.
My Portable Menu
And the source files
Source Files
Have Fun

For those receiving run time errors, please try installing the Microsoft VB6 Common Controls

I'm in the process of making a launcher for Final Burn Alpha. I using a simple NSIS script as shown below.

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!define NAME "Final Burn Alpha"

OutFile "${NAME}.exe"

WindowIcon Off
SilentInstall Silent
AutoCloseWindow True

Icon "fba.ico"

Section "Main"
Exec 'App\fba.exe'
SectionEnd
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I am currently working on making LilyPond portable. LilyPond is a text based musical notation software There's a few specific features I want the portable version to have, and there's a couple stumbles I've had already when trying to make it portable.

Hey,

I Have Absolutly No Clue On How To Create A Portable Apps And I Really Dont Want To Get Into The Deep Stuff About HOW to create a portable app

is there any program out there that will allow me to select a program and that can turn it into a portable app?

i would also like it if i could add a startup picture like when u start portableapps.com 's apps. ( but thats optional, i dont need that )

please help me out here.
tyvm portableapp'ers out there

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Hi,
I'm a new comer in portable apps development. I read the threads and some of the codes here, and I'm curious what would happen if the following things happened:
1. what if the user disconnected the USB-key before he end the portable application? In that case, i think the configure files and registry keys cannot be written back.
2. what if the machine suddenly crashed, for example if the power suddenly goes down. In that case, will the registry keys, folders and files be left on the host machine?

Thanks in advance.

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