Portable App Development

I'm a pretty much noob to making portable apps, as well as coding/programming in general, but I seem to have grasped NSIS pretty well.

Besides that, I've been getting errors in Line 171 of the compiler using John's installer .nsi files as an example. In fact, I even tried the AbiWord installer file to see if it would work flawlessly. Well enough, the compiler hung with this error log:

IfFileExists: "$PROGRAMDIRECTORY\$PROGRAMEXECUTABLE" ? FoundProgramEXE :
MessageBox: 48: "$PROGRAMEXECUTABLE was not found. Please check your configuration"
Abort: ""

I just release ASuite 1.3.1 stable version. For who doesn't know it, ASuite is an application launcher (like famous PStart, but ASuite is opensource launcher ) for USB sticks, hard drives, iPods, etc...

Major changes:
- Added new launcher and software/group software options
- New variable
- Magnetic window (like winamp)
- New Options window
- Bugfix

Project page (on sourceforge)

Download

It says at the end...

!include: could not find: "Registry.nsh"
Error in script "C:/blahblahblah/AbiWordPortable.nsi" on line 58 -- aborting creation process

Help?

Hi All
Sorry if this should be somewhere else and I missed it. I have some thoughts or requests on this.

First, John's launcher is nice looking and fast! Thanks for your hard work on it!

Second, the beta fixes the dpi issues just fine, but when I use it on my tablet, the menu is partially off screen... I'm hoping the new version allows for some customization of size? My tablet is a Q1 and so the issue is its screen size (non-standard) and not the menu app itself.

Third, I read you will be able to choose which app exes you see, but I'm really hoping for shortcut support. Perfect example -I use a tiddlywiki as a task organizer I would love to run it with portable Firefox, but the only easy way to do this is with a shortcut or batch file, and the tiddlywiki file, being an html file, can not be put on the menu at all.

See, it's the school holidays and I have nothing to do!
I currently have two choices:

Installing plugins in Gaim Portable can be a pain. First you have to install a version of gaim (not a beta) onto a windows machine, then install the plugins, and then copy the plugins over to your portable version on your usb drive.

Hey guys,
I'm new in this website and i find the portable apps concept is waayyyy cool loll!!!
i use it at work and its really usefull

im a network admin an i found a compilation of utilities for netadmin and security

i didn't really devellop that application by myself but i work on it to make it work with the portableapps menu and on a key

kinda complecated loll

if it can be usefull to anyone

download

enjoy

On my Stick run the new Suite. Now i have a question.
I need any selfcreated programfolders on the left side.
How can i created?

Developer
-Program1
-Program2
Internet
-Program3

thanks

Holger

For anyone interested in a simple portable file splitter-

I have created a new portable version of Gnumeric (Gnumeric is a spreadsheet, a computer program used to manipulate and analyze numeric data). This is the stable branch of 1.6.

Features:

• Directory structure is compatible to portableapps.com
• Uses installed settings
• Fancy splash-screen

The selfextracting archive can be downloaded from its current location.

The download link (14.8 MB):