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Menu and Suite - a request to dear John

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Submitted by gayathri on July 29, 2007 - 1:31am

Dear John,
First let me appreciate you for the concept behind this site and outstanding portables. The way of thinking, designing and updating the 'wonder' portableapps.com is really a jewel to your crown. As a newcomer to this site and portable concept I would like to say that u are one of the 'genius creators' in the field.

Why does U3 copy local?

Submitted by FeeserAndrew on July 28, 2007 - 3:14pm

I've been looking at the U3 technology and I noticed that the launchpad copies the application to the C:\ drive first, then runs it from there.

Is there a real benefit to this? I mean, isn't the app loaded into memory anyway? Is there a functional benefit to running the app locally vs from the portable drive directly?

Thanks,
Andrew

C.A.F.E. Mod Beta 3

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Submitted by ZachHudock on July 27, 2007 - 8:23am

Beta 3 is almost ready. Full GUI support for adding additional windows now works.

I had a thought though. It gets annoying having a message comes up when the user clicks an exe or com file on first run. This message is displayed because so far, CAFE handles all unmanaged extensions the same way.

My question is, should I rewrite that section so CAFE will ignore exe and com files, and just let the host computer handle them normally, or should I leave support for them in CAFE?

DeleGate

Submitted by x-demon on July 24, 2007 - 1:15pm

I found good proxy server. Its free and opensource. And i think it can be used with Tor. http://delegate.org
Anyone can make it portable? I know thats it write settings in Documents And Settings folder, but no info about registry...

mtPaint Portable

Submitted by Patrick Patience on July 23, 2007 - 10:55pm

I found this Open-Source GTK paint program, it's actually a pretty good program. It would be cool to work with GTK and stuff, and now with John's common files setup, I could probally work that in. Here's a few links, I'll play around with it a bit more, it's not Paint.NET, but it's still pretty good, let me know if you guys have any reasons why I shouldn't give it a shot.

And John, please let me know if you already have, or plan to do this one yourself. Because I know my version will just become pointless if you release a version.

Portable Apps menu

Submitted by wing5wong on July 23, 2007 - 7:45pm

not sure if this is where this goes, but everytime i run the portable apps menu, it loads a new copy of the program to the menu bar.

i would recommend that if it is run again it no longer loads a new menu, rather display the old menu that is already running.

im not sure if this is clear, but im just putting it out

Create Portable Apps: Tutorial for beginners?

Submitted by owilsky on July 23, 2007 - 11:14am

Hi,

can anybody point me to some kind of tutorial how to create a simple portable app?
I know the ApplicationPortableTemplate.nsi but the docs are not made for beginners, are they? Wink

I have a Java application that saves its configuration in UserProfileDir/.appname and I thought this would be a good exercise Wink

Thanks for every help I can get,
Oliver

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