Portable App Development

As you may or may not know, I've joined Steve Lamerton and Renè in developing Liberta. I recently released a small utility called AutoINF, which was to be the first of a suite of thumb-drive applications. I'm pleased to tell you that the KeyUTIL project is now merged with Libertà.

My new tool, AutoINF, can generate Autorun files -- just fill out a form and you're done. It's written in NSIS.

EDIT: New version released. See this thread for details. Also, the KeyUTIL Package has merged with Libertà.

Wait, before you tell me I'm an idiot, here's why I think it's a good idea:

You can't get Autorun to autostart a program on a portable USB stick. But, because the U3 environment sits on that little read-only partition it autostarts the U3 Launchpad when you insert the stick.

... So what? Well - You can configure the U3 Launchpad to autostart any U3 application on startup.

Therefore, you take advantage of U3 (which kind of sucks in my opinion) and use it for something useful - Remove all the existing U3 apps from your stick and just add the U3-enabled PStart, and set it to autorun. Then - Bam, the flexibility of using any portable app you want, with the convenience of an automatically starting launcher.

Hello all,

EDIT: Project page is now at https://portableapps.com/development/projects/registry_rocker.

This topic is for discussion of localization part 1, explained here:
https://portableapps.com/node/1731

Any suggestions, comments, etc, are appreciated.

Thanks,
John

***2006.05.05***

New release, Modules 0.93 As usual see the project page for more details! Have fun!

***2006.05.05***

Well people the time has come. Oh yes. We have the first set of Libertà stuff for you! Unfortunately this is only the set of modules that the inteface will link to but I would be most greatful if you could test them for me. To find out more visit the project page

Enjoy!

Steve + René

I'd like to submit the following to be added to the Forum Guidelines of the Request Apps thread:

To make life easier for us developers, please follow these guidelines:

I recently submitted an application for a SF.net project (PortableNotepad2, or pnotepad2); it's been in the queue for 4 business days and I was wondering how long a wait it would be (they say it's usually two days). Does anybody know?

Hello,

UPX 2.0 has been released, maybe you should check if the compression ratio is higher now and maybe more files can be comressed:

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/UPX_Ultimate_Packer_for_eXecutables...

I am looking forward for the Portable Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 release, Miranda and ClamWin AV are working really good.

Keep up the good work,
René

Hi,
is there smoewhere a simple example of a source for programlauncher. I looked at e.g. PortableOpenoffice and I'm quite confused.

As I haven't done anything really complicated with NSIS yet, I need something really simple.

Or at least a very good commented source: What is done and why?

A starting point would be what to do when a application writes to e.g. the profile directory. How to avoid that assuming that the software has no commandline option for that.

Reason: I have several applications here (mainly commercial) that I want to make portable (for my own use). Of course I then would share my results.