Portable App Development

I had found a new portable app (author made it not portable, but it is portable)
I makes no registry entries or files
it is The Regex Coach
unpack, add splash screen and sfx and it is ready to use
http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/

Some applications have their own splash screen.
Maybe in those that it is appropriate you should just add a PortableApps.com logo to the corner, instead of completely changing the splash screen so we wont lose the splash screen image of the original App?

For example: GIMP

Hi,

I noticed that most portableapps.com launchers have the same splash image (eg. 7-zip portable). I would like to know if a template image is available so I can craft my own for a new portable app I'm preparing (my first try at it).

Thanks

I want to make a launcher that launches an app after it closes another one...

I'm trying to make Abobe Flash Player Portable and I made a little exe that deletes the cookies you make on the computer and replaces them with original cookies that were on it (if any) but I don't know how to edit the Firefox Portable Launcher so that it launches the "cookie monster" after you close firefox.

The newest version of uTorrent has been out for a while. Are there any plans to update the Portable Apps package?

Yes, uTorrent can already be made portable but the package by the Portable Apps team is a much more elegant solution.

Is there a recommended method for packaging Python applications?

In particular, I was planning to package TiddlyWeb.

As a first step I have created some basic scripts that make it reasonably straightforward to set up TiddlyWeb on Windows, using Portable Python.

(I hope I got this in the right place)

Hello, I'm creating my own portable version of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2(hence I don't follow official specs or anything) and I've run into a problem. I got this piece of code:


${registry::MoveKey} "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Infogrames\" "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Infogrames-backup\" $R0
Sleep 100


Which works as expected. However, the opposite does nothing:


${registry::MoveKey} "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Infogrames-backup\" "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Infogrames\" $R0
Sleep 100


CMD blocked by admin no more!!!!

More info + Download= Command Prompt (Revized)

I think I got all the bugs out, So let me now of any.

But I had the problem of getting a CMD block at school because of admin. Now with the new revised version the admin can't block your portable version of CMD and it's still truly portable.

[Topic clarified by Mod Tim]

I'm doing a piece of NSIS at the moment to backup registry keys or values found by a search in the registry.
As it's almost finished, I wanted to do a quick test, but the NSIS compiler always gives me these warnings

12 warnings:
  unknown variable/constant "{_SearchFor}" detected, ignoring (RegistrySearchBackup.nsh:54)
  unknown variable/constant "{_SearchFor}" detected, ignoring (RegistrySearchBackup.nsh:56)
  unknown variable/constant "{_Type}" detected, ignoring (RegistrySearchBackup.nsh:59)

Hello,

I ran into appcompactor and found it easy to use upx gui.

I am wondering whether it would be suitable or not to include optipng inside it; that software is designed to minimize the size of portable network graphics without any loss of detail.

under windows in a batch file I can do
for /r . %%G in (*.png) do optipng -o7 %%G

under linux, find . -iname "*.png" -exec optipng -o7 {} \;

It works pretty well and can be useful to reduce even more the size of some portable apps.

Have a nice day and thanks for offering that application,