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Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

Locked DLL

computerfreaker's picture
Submitted by computerfreaker on February 11, 2010 - 12:14pm

I'm working on NVDA right now; it's pretty simple settings-wise (everything is self-contained), but it has a DLL's (IAccessible2Proxy.dll) that invariably gets locked by Explorer. Any ideas on breaking the lock?
I thought of doing a regsvr32 /u call, but I'm using PAL, which doesn't seem to support that kind of thing yet.

Can P.Apps handle %APPDATA on another volume?

NathanJ79's picture
Submitted by NathanJ79 on February 8, 2010 - 7:29am

Several months ago I posted about VLC Portable leaving stuff in &APPDATA and IIRC the post was ignored, which I took to mean "we can't reproduce it" or "we don't know what to do about it". (Silence is possibly the mother of assumption.)

I have an idea that might lead to a solution or at least an explanation.

PAM.Shortcut.Creator

Submitted by ak.h on February 5, 2010 - 8:30pm

Often times applications are placed on a removable drive and then needed in another directory. The problem with this is that shortcuts will break when the drive letter changes. One solution is to have several copies of one application scattered throughout your drive, however your data becomes scattered and you lose precious space on your drive. PAM.S.C. aims to provide a better solution. Leave your applications in one directory and create a small app (21 kB) that can be placed anywhere on that drive that then starts your application. It's not your conventional shortcut, it's shortcut2.0!

TinyResMeter - keeping the PAF build as small as possible

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Submitted by computerfreaker on February 5, 2010 - 5:18pm

I'm currently talking to the TinyResMeter developer about making a PAF-compliant build of it.
For those who aren't familiar with TinyResMeter, here's a quote from the homepage:

TinyResMeter is a small tool that displays useful information about system resources in real time, but it also gives much more detail when you right-click on the displayed fields !

Customize PA Platform menu

Submitted by varxtis on February 1, 2010 - 12:59pm

I had a question about the PA Platform Menu. Is there anyway to customize the Platform Menu. Like on top of or instead of listing only portable apps, allowing a user to add specific files contained in the drive (whether it be docs, videos, or audio files) to the list. And customizing the Interface color scheme. If no feature like this exists, could one be developed?

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