Portable App Development

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,
Session

I have a question:

JPEGView uses an ini file to store its settings. The new 1.0.17 version introduces new features which come with new ini entries. If the /Data folder shouldn't be touched, how do I update the ini file without overwriting it and thus deleting possible changes the user made?

I know that NSIS can write ini strings, but what about comments like

; Amount of local density correction of highlights
; Can be in [0, 1]
LDCDarkenHighlights=0.25

Thanks for your input.

Woah, SuperTuxKart reaches to 180 MB.

   _________
  /         \
 /  O     O  \
 |   __/\__   \
 \  /      \  /
  \_\  | | /_/
    |  | | |
     \ |_|/
      \__/

(Okay, I stink at ascii art.)
I ran WinDirStat and found that the top extensions for size are:

• .svn-base (88 MB/ 50%)
• .rbg (42 MB/ 24%)
• .ogg (24 MB/ 14%)
• .ac (21 MB/ 12%)

For .svn-base, I'm pretty sure they are useless, but I can't be sure. I can't find any information from google.
For .rbg, they are 3d image files, don't know if they are compressible.

hey zach
when you have time i was hoping that you could put that high res logo of the FoF mascot for me to use

thanks
powerjuce

There are many great open source apps written in Java and we're currently avoiding them because of the Java Portablizing.

That's for you, Logan

Name

Big Buck Bunny

PAM-Version

PAM Mod R31

Size

480 * 606 pix

Preview & Download

MrE

Hi I am creating a new game but I'm a total programming loser please give me the code for the portable app launcher (For example 7zipportable.exe) and a clear backgroung with only portable and a usb flash on it everything else should be clean!
I promise to post it once I finished developing it!

I've been thinking i wanted to try to make an app. But I'm pretty new to programming all together. (I've had a little c++ experience but thats about it). So I wanted to try something small. I just want to try to create an entry in the portable apps menu that executes an exe. can someone show me the most simplest way to do that. Thanks in advance.

P.S. i apologize if this is shown elsewhere, i briefly searched but couldn't find anything.

Hello,
I'm trying to portabilize an application for myself (ImageJ) and I would like to make it PAM compatible for installation (Iwante to create a paf.exe). i try to edit portableApps.com.installer.nsi, and then to compile it with NSIS. But i have this error :

Invalid command: MoreInfo::GetProductName
Error in script "Z:\PortableApps\PortableImageJ\Other\Source\PortableApps.comInstaller.nsi" on line 234 -- aborting creation process

Can you help me please ? I have poor programming level

Thanks