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Portable App Development

Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

Two executables in one app

Submitted by kde on January 15, 2008 - 2:26pm

Hi! We have our own application that we would like to make portable and compatible with Portable Application Suite. Currently we already made our app portable, but encountered one problem when tried to insert our app in the Suite. Our app has 2 executables - one standard 32 bit executable (the main one) and the second - 64 bit hook support application for Windows x64 in the same directory. But Portable Application Suite shows both of them in its main menu. How can we hide the second support application from being show in the menu?

Real Portable Desktop

Submitted by lucisdeus on January 14, 2008 - 8:30am

The only thing that is missing is a "Real Portable Desktop"
what i mean is when u plug in your usb drive instead of the desktop that
u see in windows that is the user desktop of that computer
the usb drive should run a desktop on top of the existing one
which allows us to use it as we do on our own computer Have our own
shortcut files and ower background on it .this would even make portableapps
more popular cause in this way u can really take ur desktop with u

and by the way we should also have our connections on the usb drive also

NSIS tip for compiling using the v0.9.9.0 pa.com installer

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Submitted by BuddhaChu on January 12, 2008 - 8:09pm

The latest version of the official pa.com installer script is using the "MoreInfo" plugin. This isn't included in NSIS by default or in Smithtech's NSIS Portable.

Fix:

- Download the MoreInfo plugin from here.
- Extract the zip file
- Go into the \Plugins dir and copy the MoreInfo.dll
- Go to you NSIS install dir and go to the \Plugins subdirectory
- Paste MoreInfo.dll there

~fini

[Theme] Human Theme Set (update Billy)

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Submitted by MrElchbau on January 12, 2008 - 4:06pm

Hello humans!
I'd like to present you my latest theme set. There are some parts I'll finished soon, but I like your feedback (or, maybe I'm addicted to), so have a look please Smile

Name
Human Theme Set
PAM-Version
PAM-Mod R25 and above by XrXca / PAM-Mod R31
Variation Names
Nerdy
Iron Man
Rasta
Liverpool
Victor
Stevie
Billy
Size
406 * 573 pix

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Standards

Submitted by maggotb0y on January 10, 2008 - 10:08pm

So beyond the fact that I can't really even find a draft of the .paf specification on this site...

Has there been any consideration to submitting this specification to a standards body? It would be a lot easier to convince developers to develop for a ratified platform.

Does anyone know what's involved? Ever been a part of such a process?

How to portabilize pygtk and python

Submitted by khiraly on January 8, 2008 - 4:47pm

Hi!

Im developing a small pygtk based application (using both windows and linux), and I want to portabilize this application on windows platform.

My program depend on the followings:
- python 2.5
- pygtk (and Gtk) 2.10 or later
- pyserial

What I want to know:
- documentation, howto, tutorial (where is it? What is the basics?)
- best way to begin, where to start?

Can somebody point me to the documentation?

I readed through the website, but there is no real (deep) documentation. AmI missing something?

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