Portable App Development

Been playing around with this and got it to work, sort of. Still need to figure out how to get the NSIS installer to do the work of adding and removing the registry keys that it needs for me, but here's some base information.

If you have VLCPortable on your stick, and FireFoxPortable.
You will need to get a hold of the NPVLC.DLL and NPVLC.DLL.MANIFEST files.
These files will go in your VLCPortable\App\vlc folder, right along side VLC.EXE.

The files that are used are as follows:

npvlc.dll
libvlc.dll
libvlc.dll.manifest
libvlccore.dll

This is a zipped vmac, that starts from the portable apps platform with the 24Mb memory loaded.
the first exe is an compiled bat file, original is there also as a .bat file.
Maybe you guys can make a portable app out of it.

Happy to help

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Is there any way to hide aspects of so-called "portable" applications such as Effective File Search for windows?

I see the uninstall programs as well as the main installer, but I only want the main executable to be visible.

What I'm asking for is a way to write a .ini file that works regardless of what happens in the menu itself such as hide/unhide.

I hope this is possible.

I want to be sure about this, before I send the next development test with it included!
I am really waiting for this answer, since I've got a real problem extracting the winamp installer with the PAinstaller.

I'm asking this since you told me you have the license, but I never got definite answer on this question !

Thanx

It would be really handy if the rollover tool-tip on the applications in the PortableApps menu would give a brief description of what each program actually does. I installed a bunch of programs and don't remember what all of them do.

PortableApps are great for PC install (unpack & run) and great for distribution (unpack, preconfigure & send a copy to user). In that way I miss an multiuser install option (call it half portable) that puts Data directory in %APPDATA%

Yes, I know the whole point of portability its to use only one directory, and avoid %APPDATA%. But, as sysadmin, I see PortableApps+%APPDATA% a very good and easy way to deploy software with a one-liner:

xcopy /s \\server\dir\my_preconfigured_PortableApp %PROGRAMFILES%\Portable\

Ok, well, I have a few questions to ask, and figured I'd check one of the few forums I know of that program.
First off - MinGW or Cygwin, which is better, can I use both?
also relating - I need a good guide to set either up, sure the ones on the sites are fine, but, I'd like one that tells me what I need, and what changes I need to make (I know I need to change a few environment variables or something) and WHY.

Hi all

A while back I gave Flightgear a shot, liked it and tried making a portable version.
It worked half but I couldnt redirect the APPDATA variable to the usb drive. I tried redirecting it the same way I did it with lots of other Apps but it didn't work.
I am at the end of my knowledge here and it would be cool if I would find someone willing to take a look at it and see if I made any errors of if maybe there is an other way of doing it.

How could we set up maybe the menu so that on unplug (yeah, that's right, no silly Safely Remove) the whole menu closes every single app that was running off the flash drive (I think this is one of the few high points of U3)?

I know I've tried it before, without much luck (checking every 10 seconds to see if a file exists isn't exactly good usage of memory). I'll give a prize to whomever can come up with a proof of concept :P.

I wish for FreeCommander Portable to open files using an appropriate portable software if available.

Since the specification doesn't include file types that the program opens I'm not sure how can this be done for every app easily but it can be implemented for some for now.