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Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

Portable web browser module for Python apps

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Submitted by Chris Morgan on June 19, 2010 - 6:59am

Earlier today, vf2nsr mentioned he was looking at the Python documentation, for googsystray, to see if he could come up with a way to make it use a portable browser when it opens web pages - it uses the Python webbrowser module to open webpages. So I thought to myself that it would be useful to have a module which we could add to Python apps if they open web pages often (normally when it's just an about box or things like that I wouldn't bother unless it can be conveniently arranged with the development team).

Weird problem with PortableApps.com Installer?

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Submitted by computerfreaker on June 18, 2010 - 3:56pm

The PortableApps.com Installer is doing something pretty weird: every time it gets to 90% or so, it hangs. Here's what I managed to find out:
* Both 2.0.2 and 2.0 hang
* PAI only hangs when building one specific package - Double Commander. I was able to successfully build both Iron Portable and ToDo List Portable, which eliminates a general problem with PAI.

Registring .DLL files?

Submitted by shanet on June 18, 2010 - 4:17am

Hey again everyone. I'm getting the hang of pportable app development, but there are stll a few hurdles to get over. One of them it registering files, the un-registerng them when alls done. How do I do that???

Many thanks to all who have helped me in the past, I hope you aren't finding me annoying Smile

Shane Thompson

Last.FM Scrobbler/Player Portable

Submitted by devinthayer on June 15, 2010 - 12:03pm

With Pandora.com radio's obtrusive commercials, I found that Last.FM was the superior player for my comfort. In addition, it also has the ability to "scrobble" from your music players such as iTunes, Windows Media Player, VLC, etc. that are installed on your C drive. This means that the Last.FM database is being updated even when you don't use their service, consequently a superior music genome project.

Metal Gear Solid 1 Trial Portable Game

Submitted by r2d1000 on June 13, 2010 - 9:32pm

i made an portable app for the game Metal Gear Solid it is the trial not the full game.
it is compressed with a converted batch file that manages the program and it has some music with it it was 83 mb now it is 9 mb

download link : [Link removed, commercial software, license will disallow redistribution, especially with modification - mod Chris]

Help

Submitted by m1sk on June 13, 2010 - 2:46pm

I Have A Program Which I Want To Run
The Problem Is I Need To Change The Registry For The Program To Work.
My Problem Is That I Cant Change The Registry From Certain Computers.
Now Being A Fan Of Portable Apps I Thought That Maybe Portable Apps
May Offer Me A Solution.

Peerblock Portable

Submitted by miscsubbin on June 11, 2010 - 10:50pm

I wanted to make Peerblock work with my portable apps platform and I thought I would look into making it myself. Peerblock already has a portable version (but it can't go into the platform) and doesn't appear to be written in Java or .NET so I thought this would at least be a little easier.

Language Variable Documentation

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Submitted by dagardner on June 8, 2010 - 9:39am

Is there documentation that lists all of the language variables for the PortableApps platform? The best I was able to find was Chris Morgan post in Language Environment Variables, but doesn't have all of the languages and it is more than a year old, so I wasn't sure if something had changed.

I'm working on Zekr Portable, and it requires the languages to be specified in a format similar to en_US, de_DE, fr_FR, etc. I don't now if that is readily available from the platform, or if I will have to parse it myself for the available languages.

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