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Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

Portable XAMPP Lite Without Fluff?

Submitted by BenMcLean on October 11, 2006 - 9:10pm

I am thinking of going through Portable XAMPP Lite and deleting all the images. I'm pretty sure that would reduce the file size a great deal. The trouble is, if I did that, I'm not sure certain parts of it (like phpMyAdmin possibly) will still work, or whether I will still be able to actually navigate those parts that use the images if I need to later.

The reason for wanting it even smaller is because I have a really small flash drive and it barely fits on there - and I would like to be able to put more stuff on there. (I am planning to buy a bigger one soon, but still, I'd like to have thi

Nicotine+ Portable

Submitted by osiris on October 11, 2006 - 1:03am

Nicotine is Hyriand's rewrite of PySoulSeek with a PyGTK2 GUI
Nicotine+ is a fork, an attempt, to keep Nicotine working with the latest libraries, kill bugs, keep current with the Soulseek protocol and add some new features that users want and/or need.

As win32 develeloper* for Nicotine+ and a big fan of PortableApps, I made a portable version of Nicoine+

* kind of big word Wink

You can download it here

This is the second version after alot of struggling to get a PyGTK app working which didn't have high cpu/memory useage.

Portable Code::Blocks?

Submitted by Girvo on October 10, 2006 - 6:41pm

Hi there.

I have been trying to create a portable version of the OS C++ IDE, Code::Blocks. So far, I have found the registry key it creates when run, and exported it. Also, I have found the folder that it creates in C:\Documents and Settings\$USERNAME$, called ".Codeblocks" and the file it creates at the same place, called .cb_profile

How can I make a launcher, that loads all these things to their correct places? I trird using a batch file, but the problem is, the registry values include absoltue paths :S

Any ideas?

-Girvo

Wings3D Portable -- Think I can get it working pretty easy

Submitted by mikesapunk on October 4, 2006 - 5:38pm

Hey community,

I've been able to get Wings3D (an amazing 3D modelling package found at http://www.wings3d.com/) to fully run on my USB drive with no connection to the underlying OS, EXCEPT for a single .ini file that contains 2 absolute paths to folders in the application (all the way from the drive root).

Obviously, by simply editing the .ini the app will run, but each time it is ran, the .ini file has to somehow be edited to be pointed to the correct directory.

This is my first attempt at creating a portable app, can the portable app template handle this kind of replacement in an .ini file?

Portable Utility & Security Suite 1.02 Released

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Submitted by Steve Lamerton on September 27, 2006 - 1:20pm

PUSS 1.02 has now been released. There have been a couple of minor improvements such as the inclusion of a horizontal scrollbar and the re-selection of the previous item in Secure. Also you will notice that the default categories are back in. Finally I have moved to app to a standard foldername so that you should find that with the next release you can extract it over the top without any issues. Please see the project page for more information and a download link.

The Liberta Team

DevEject Alternatives

Submitted by Vhati on September 26, 2006 - 10:06pm

I used to use this batch to quickly run a script and eject.

FOR %%i in (".") do set usbdrv=%%~di

copy deveject.exe "%userprofile%\desktop"
copy startx.exe "%userprofile%\desktop"

echo deveject -EjectDrive:%usbdrv% >> "%userprofile%\desktop\bye.bat"
echo del startx.exe >> "%userprofile%\desktop\bye.bat"
echo del deveject.exe >> "%userprofile%\desktop\bye.bat"
echo del bye.bat >> "%userprofile%\desktop\bye.bat"

cd /D "%userprofile%\desktop"
startx /B bye.bat

Then I got a Lexar JumpDrive Secure, which appears to Windows as a Local Drive rather than a Removable Device. It has the advantage of using an autorun.inf like CDs so my apps start as soon as I insert the stick (SP2 adds a nag popup, but that's the only hold-up).

Portable WinPCap for Developers

Submitted by Vhati on September 26, 2006 - 7:53pm

Someone made portable versions of ethereal, ngrep, nmap, showtraf, snort, tcpdump, and nemesis by recompiling with a portable packet lib...

Repeat: His didn't need WinPCap installed.

His email is: BOBAH.XPEHOB@GMAIL.COM
http://www.packetstuff.com/index.htm
(His site's dead but google has a cache of the main page)

His Google Newsgroup is still up though.
http://groups.google.com/group/PacketStuff?hl=en

The library's site is here
And it can be downloaded here

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