Portable App Development

Hi there,

I'm keen to get the Processing API working for portable drives. I have had some input from the Processing forum about how to do this. And if I get it to work, will look into using NISI to wrap up the app and the changes.

processing.org forum post

Any advice on making this robust is more than welcome. I use Processing to teach aspects of programming, and a portable version for students to carry around would be ideal.

Ben

Hi,

The current way that Firefox Portable and Thunderbird Portable work triggers the UAC and failed installation warnings in Windows Vista.
Given that half the point of having portable apps is so that they can be used on machines that the user doesn't control it's not sufficient to blame Vista and say that UAB should eb turned off.

My understanding is that the current portable apps actually work by installing themselves one start up and then uninstalling themselves on shutdown.

Do you have plans for moving to an alternative way of packaging these apps that will work without requiring any elevated privileges?

I have created a new portable version of Wink, a 'Tutorial and Presentation' creation software. Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users.

Features:

• Directory structure is compatible to portableapps.com
• uses installed settings
• fancy splash-screen

The selfextracting archive can be downloaded from its current location.

could you do something so when you exit vlc and open it up again the settings are not lost?

Hello, everyone

I have been reading and reading in the forums now, for a little while...

I've already downloaded NSIS, UPX and the application template 1.2
This site has already been a goodie bag for me, as there are a plethora of tricks and hints to be found - thank you to everyone, so far.

What else will I need ? Is there a "merged" tutorial somwhere, and I've just missed it ?

Mostly, I'd like to be able to re-pack smaller Client/Server applications for running off a USB key, without leaving traces on the PC that was used.
A current goal for me (nah, I won't just request it, I'll start working on it), would be to run a 2X Client (alternative MS terminal server client, http://www.2x.com) off a USB key. So that's where I'll start.

Ok... so I have a new package put together, but the standard 7-Zip icon is really annoying... Anyone know how to change the archive icon? If you do it with a resource explorer/editor it comes back with an error upon execution.

I just had an idea, but not sure if it is possible, or whether it is already done. The problem i have is I keep forgetting i have programs running on my USB before i exit, as i'm sure most of you do. I know there has been a earlier post regarding an automated .bat file to kill the running processes, however i thought this maybe an alternative.

The program is run on startup (code name "Still Running" ), from a launcher, maybe on PStart, then any apps which are run from the USB drive (or run from PStart) is added to a text file or alike list. If a app is closed then it is removed from the list. Then on exit of the launcher, a list comes up with a window stating any apps that are still running. Esspecially useful for apps in the system tray, or on desktop, such as Rainlender.

I have been working on scripts to automate the creation and set up of a Adobe® Photoshop® CS2

The Name Of the app is "Make_Portable" and its not really an app its a bunch of cmd files.
I have made what many people want (a portable Adobe® Photoshop® CS2 make and launcher)if you want to download it I have the link here but You still need either the Administrator password or you need to be an admin to run it. This I will fix as soon as we develop a working virtual registry and call re-director.

Download: It dosent work Im fixing it
MD5: 82E58FEABFCCB7D0A2DB286D0550605E

Have a lot

Greetings all... I'm working on building a portable app launcher for the shareware version of WinImage just as a practice app to help me learn a bit... It works fine, but when I put my registration information in, it looses it when the app shuts down. Seems like it's not properly backing up the registry although the code looks fine to me...

Registry::_RestoreKey "$SETTINGSDIRECTORY\settings.reg" .R0
ExecWait $EXECSTRING
Registry::_SaveKey "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\WinImage"
"$SETTINGSDIRECTORY\settings.reg" "/G=1 /D=0 /B=0" .R0
Registry::_DeleteKey "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\WinImage" .R0

I have created a new portable version of Blender, an open source, cross platform suite of tools for 3D creation.

Features:

• Directory structure is compatible to portableapps.com
• uses installed settings
• fancy splash-screen

The selfextracting archive can be downloaded from its current location.

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Please note link has been updated as of 1/11/06!