Portable App Development

(forgive the long post, it's a big concept)

Okay, so I've built some very rudimentary plug in framework into the latest experimental version of geek.menu, and pulled out background picture setting from the main code, and implemented it as a plugin. I'm hoping that this framework (or at least a much improved version of it) will work it's way in to a future version of PAM, assuming we ever get past the "hey would you like to help out with future versions?" stage of cooperation.

Currently I'm testing a version of the SMPlayer launcher that redirects %USERPROFILE%. However, it is well known that bMPlayer creates a folder called .dvdcss in the same directory, and MPlayer is executed by SMPlayer, not SMPlayer Portable. So therefore I would also need to redirect an app I'm not executing. This would probably be only achieved by modifying SMPlayer's code, but I don't know and am not intending to learn C++. I can almost be partly sure that I can make it so that the app I do execute ends up redirecting all other executions. Hm... I'll try that....

Hi,
Inspired by a thread in the ThunderbirdPortable-Forum, I had an idea how to make ThunderbirdPortable the default email-client. There are quite a lot of threads out there in webforums and blogs about this, i didn't find a solution.

I want to present my way here, and would like to know your opinion about it: Does it seem to work save? Could this work for other to? Would it work on other computers (vista), too? And most interessting: could there be made a reg-file-template to make the process easier for other users?

I can't remember if I made a post about this in the past, I know I discussed it with someone before, maybe in #portableapps

Ok, I think it would be great if there was a Bookmarks popup menu on PAM, like the Favorites menu in the Windows Start Menu. It would of course read from the bookmarks.html of the installed FFP. I know the IE Favorites are actually individual url files, and that's how MS does it, but I'm sure someone can right some code to parse the bookmarks.html and display them in a popup.

Hi All,

The developer of FinchSync is struggling to keep up with all the changes in the Mozilla & WM products and is considering opening up his source code.

http://www.finchsync.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=926

It is a very useful utility and compliments the Mozilla products well.

If I had the skills I would have offered to bring the project here. I'm hoping that someone here is capable and willing to look into it.

It's a C++ (client), Java (server) app.

Found this on the net while browseing....executes from an exe ......not sure how portable it really is could u check it out and see
How portable it really is i checked tried it looks just like msn messenger

[Link removed by mod SL - Redistribution of Microsoft applications is not allowed]

I am currently working on WAtomic. It saves its settings to C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\username\Anwendungsdaten\WAtomic which I think can be correctly replaced by %APPDATA%/WAtomic cause although I dont know anything about programming, I found one sourcefile that says:

unit sh_fun;
{
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WATOMIC - Windows(c) KAtomic clone

Copyright (C) 2005  Federico Blaseotto (ironfede)

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

I made a new theme for PAM 1.1

Theme Dragon Duel

What do you think...?

I'd very much like to build my own .exe file that redirects to the application path, but I don't feel like reinventing the wheel here. What program can I use to decompile for instance FirefoxPortable.exe and read what it does, modify it and use it for my own app?

Hi,
I have been working on a portable app for me and a few of my friends and I am having a bit of a problem. Part of my script copies a bunch of files and this rather slows down the loading. I was wondering whether there was any way of showing the splash screen and copying the files at the same time. If there is, could somebody please point me in the right direction.

Thanks,
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