Portable App Development

I've tried to find a way to set up FirefoxPE to use Sumatra and VLC as the default apps to use from a CD. I know that it's easy enough to do when running from a USB drive as the PortableApps launcher itself is supposed to take care of this, it even says so on the website for FirefoxPE. Anyone know of a way to do this without having the PA launcher around?

Hi, is it possible to segment the left side of the portable apps menu according to the different categories?
Such as a "Game" section for Sudoku, and a "Player" for different media player, and a "Tools" section?

Thanks for any reply.

Well, I know that there are some requests for features in Toucan, so I thought I'd group them all here so that I don't lose any. Oh and yes I know that 1.0 isn't out yet, I sent John an e-mail about that yesterday so hopefully that should get moving. Currently I have the following additions for 1.1:

1. A job manager
2. The ability to retain folder timestamps
3. An inbuilt updater

John,
I have a lot of fully legal software i use daily if i wanted to make them portable
say sas is that legal?

Steve,

Please may we have a checkbox on the Synch page to "Retain folder timestamps"

Roger

Do you have any other folder in X:\Document\?
Now you can open it with single click,by add a exe in list.

This is source code,modify the location you want to open and complie by DEV C++
http://home.kimo.com.tw/chongyoeyat/Open.7z

Done.This is my first workable win32 program. Any question please ask.

Do not use this. Use the PortableApps.com Launcher instead.

Discussion has moved here:
https://portableapps.com/node/10491

What ist it for?
It helps you to create a clean portable application. This means no traces are left on the host computer and the application doesn't (normally) have to be changed in any way. (Maybe some configuration files)

Where can I get it?
http://www.loncarek.de/downloads/ApplicationPortableTemplate.nsi
use "Save As..." in your browser.

Following on post https://portableapps.com/node/1141#comment-6250

here is the batch file to launch FreeMind using the commonfiles/java structure

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@echo off
..\CommonFiles\Java\bin\java -cp lib\freemind.jar;lib\ant\lib\jaxb-api.jar;lib\ant\lib\jaxb-impl.jar;lib\ant\lib\jaxb-libs.jar;lib\ant\lib\namespace.jar;lib\ant\lib\relaxngDatatype.jar;lib\ant\lib\xsdlib.jar;lib\ant\lib\jax-qname.jar;lib\ant\lib\sax.jar;lib\ant\lib\dom.jar freemind.main.FreeMind

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Hi,
does anyone know a way to set the APPDATA environment variable temporarily, i.e. during the run of a launcher?

It could be set via registry, but this would cause that other currently running applications would not find their data anymore. (At least I think)

Any ideas?

I have been using Google Sketchup for a while now, and I always wondered if it would be possible to make it portable. (To use at my workstation in the office).

As an experiment, I just copied the Sketchup folder from my C: Drive and pasted the copy into the "Portable Apps" folder on my USB drive.

When I started the portable apps launcher, lo and behold, Sketchup was there!

I ran it on 3 different machines, with positive results.

Which leads me to my next question: Does anyone know of any other popular applications that can be added in this way?