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Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

I got a few questions...

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Submitted by Pyromaniac on February 23, 2010 - 10:46am

I want to make a launcher that launches an app after it closes another one...

I'm trying to make Abobe Flash Player Portable and I made a little exe that deletes the cookies you make on the computer and replaces them with original cookies that were on it (if any) but I don't know how to edit the Firefox Portable Launcher so that it launches the "cookie monster" after you close firefox.

uTorrent 2.0

Submitted by justcurious on February 22, 2010 - 6:31pm

The newest version of uTorrent has been out for a while. Are there any plans to update the Portable Apps package?

Yes, uTorrent can already be made portable but the package by the Portable Apps team is a much more elegant solution.

NSIS registry help

Submitted by ToJa92 on February 22, 2010 - 1:45pm

(I hope I got this in the right place)

Hello, I'm creating my own portable version of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2(hence I don't follow official specs or anything) and I've run into a problem. I got this piece of code:


${registry::MoveKey} "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Infogrames\" "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Infogrames-backup\" $R0
Sleep 100

Which works as expected. However, the opposite does nothing:


${registry::MoveKey} "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Infogrames-backup\" "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Infogrames\" $R0
Sleep 100

Command Prompt (Revized) Try This Yall

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Submitted by Skitter302 on February 21, 2010 - 11:57pm

CMD blocked by admin no more!!!!

More info + Download= Command Prompt (Revized)

I think I got all the bugs out, So let me now of any.

But I had the problem of getting a CMD block at school because of admin. Now with the new revised version the admin can't block your portable version of CMD and it's still truly portable.

[Topic clarified by Mod Tim]

NSIS problem with variables

Submitted by Benedikt93 on February 20, 2010 - 1:14pm

I'm doing a piece of NSIS at the moment to backup registry keys or values found by a search in the registry.
As it's almost finished, I wanted to do a quick test, but the NSIS compiler always gives me these warnings

12 warnings:
  unknown variable/constant "{_SearchFor}" detected, ignoring (RegistrySearchBackup.nsh:54)
  unknown variable/constant "{_SearchFor}" detected, ignoring (RegistrySearchBackup.nsh:56)
  unknown variable/constant "{_Type}" detected, ignoring (RegistrySearchBackup.nsh:59)

App compactor suggestion (optipng to crush PNG filesizes)

Submitted by mortgat on February 19, 2010 - 3:48am

Hello,

I ran into appcompactor and found it easy to use upx gui.

I am wondering whether it would be suitable or not to include optipng inside it; that software is designed to minimize the size of portable network graphics without any loss of detail.

under windows in a batch file I can do
for /r . %%G in (*.png) do optipng -o7 %%G

under linux, find . -iname "*.png" -exec optipng -o7 {} \;

It works pretty well and can be useful to reduce even more the size of some portable apps.

Have a nice day and thanks for offering that application,

Need a springboard icon

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Submitted by computerfreaker on February 17, 2010 - 4:03pm

Sorry if this seems short, I'm on the run atm.

Could somebody please get me a springboard icon? The default launcher icon in Ubuntu would be great, if somebody could get it. If not, don't worry about it; I'll try to get it later today.

I've got a new app ready to go except for the icon, and a springboard is just what I need.

Thanks!

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