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Just Cos I Love This Devt Project ... Some Scripts To Share

Submitted by dtanPApps on May 12, 2008 - 5:49pm

Just Cos I Love This Devt Project ...

I keep these THREE (3) scripts in the same installation folder as my PortableApps (ie. E:\PortableApps). This allows me to do quick, consistent, repeatable application installs on the various PCs around the house, at work or otherwise (just in the slim chance I do not have my USB drive with me).

===== Make.bat
@echo off

SET CPATH="c:\AddProg\PortableApps"
SET DPATH="d:\Downloads"

SET XPATH=%CPATH%
SET DESKTOP="c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\PortableApps"

REM del all old directories
rmdir /s /q %XPATH%

REM mkdir

Variables in source code(help please)

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Submitted by Nathan9222 on May 11, 2008 - 1:34am

Im wondering when you are looking for the environment variable for a program, for when you use "System::Call 'Kernel32::SetEnvironmentVariableA(t, t) i("APPDATA", "$SETTINGSDIRECTORY").r0'" what exactly would you be looking for in the source of that program so you can replace "APPDATA" with what it uses to store its data in its location it defines. Is it just like variable or the name of the folder where the data is being stored?? Thanks in advance for any help Smile

Proggressive Web Installer?

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Submitted by digitxp on May 10, 2008 - 6:00pm

There's a lot of large apps in the Beta forums, and it takes longer to both download and install them. The PAUpdater has this problem too, it downloads then installs. This wastes time. Time could be saved by making a progressive web installer, that downloads one zip at a time while extracting them also. This saves time especially on a newer computer, with decent memory but slow internet (like Patrick's PC :P). Just the Data and Other dirs would be included. Then the AppName folder would be downloaded while extracting.

where else can you get people to translate for free?

Submitted by Travis Carrico on May 7, 2008 - 4:59pm

does anyone know of another place besides these forums to get free human translations for open source apps? i don't even think there is anyone on these forums who translates italian or chinese.

in the case that people who can translate on these forums sees this, the translations still needed are:

IT and zh-CN here: https://portableapps.com/node/12477

DE, IT, JA, pt-BR, pt-PT, zh-CN here: https://portableapps.com/node/13249

Tux Paint Splash

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Submitted by digitxp on May 3, 2008 - 3:26pm

I finally figured out how those splashes work in the PortableApps (GIMP, Stellarium) and TuxPaint. TuxPaint's splash is compiled of three pictures; title.png, title-credits.png, and title-tuxpaint.png. title.png is a Tux holding a paintbrush, title-credits.png is the credits (New Breed Software & Tux4Kids), and title-tuxpaint.png is for the title (Tux Paint). If anyone would be nice enough to make a portable edition splash, I'd be really happy.

Problem creating PAF installer for Eclipse

Submitted by RaYell on May 3, 2008 - 6:04am

Hi!

I've been trying to create a PAF installer for Eclipse but I go the following error while executing it. I took the installer script from 7-Zip Portable and I use it to create some PAF installers already but this is not working with Eclipse.

The error is:

File: failed opening file "..\..\App\Eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.platform.source_3.3.3.r33x_r20080129-_19UEl7Ezk_gXF1kouft\src\org.eclipse.core.runtime.compatibility.registry_3.2.100.v20070316\runtime_registry_compatibilitysrc.zip"

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