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Portable App Development

Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

Making an Application portable

Submitted by SylenThunder on March 18, 2009 - 10:58am

I have an application that I run from my flash drive. It was installed on the computer originally, but run independently without installing any reg settings or otherwise. All I have done at this point is copy it over to my flash drive, and I just open the folders and run the application from there. I would really like to put it on the Launcher but have some trouble. Most applications have the executable in the main folder, and as long as I rename the other .exe files like uninstall and such that are not necessary, it works great.

Change PAM system tray icon

Submitted by Rapscallion on March 16, 2009 - 10:07pm

Sorry if this is already answered somewhere, but if it was I could not find it.

Is there a way to change the icon of PAM itself. I have 2 different drives with PAM installed, and have modified the drive icon to easily tell them apart in explorer. It would also be handy to be able to distinguish between the 2 different PAM's in the system tray as well (so I know which of the 2 is actually running at a glance).

PAP 2.0+ Idea - Reduce app permissions

Submitted by usbtastic on March 16, 2009 - 6:45am

I'd like the option to launch Portable Apps with reduced privileges similar to the function of DropMyRights.exe by Microsoft (i think the code is open-source, but i could be wrong:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms972827.aspx

As I always run as a member of the Administrators Group on my PC, I currently run a few apps with DropMyRights such as Pidgin, Firefox, and most internet-facing apps.

I know there is a 'Run as' option, but this is inconvenient. It would be nice if there was a setting in PAP to strip the admin privileges away from the running apps....

Help with System Plugin (system.dll)

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Submitted by gluxon on March 14, 2009 - 3:21pm

Hello guys.

I'm trying to get the System Plugin work with me.

Everything I use it I, the EXE always that it's used in crashes.

http://pastebin.com/f281a5362

My theory is that either I'm not putting some needed stuff in the script for the System Plugin to work or I've got a corrupt system.dll file.

So if somebody could either look at my script or link to a new download of the system plugin (I can't find it anywhere, I've googled and it does NOT come with NSIS).

Thanks.

A couple of suggestions

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Submitted by Richard 321 on March 11, 2009 - 1:15am

Hi:

I have been lurking a while. I do have a couple of suggestions I think would improve Portable Apps. Please return the eject drive to the right-click system tray context menu. Also, I would like a user selected explore from folder option (selectable from the main PA interface) in the right-click system tray context menu. Please give these ideas due consideration.

--Richard

What about DOS programs?

Submitted by longtex on March 10, 2009 - 5:14pm

This is two questions, basically, because this is pretty much done already.

Well, it's not "done" done, but it's close. Before I proceed, I have a couple of questions.

How much is it “done”? Well, it works. I can copy the executable and data files onto a PA USB stick in the PA directory, and it shows up on the menu, and it launches and runs. I haven't done the full-bore install and all that, and before I do, I need to know:

(1) how does the launched program know the drive letter it's running on?

(2) is there really any interest in this???

First, why am I even doing this?

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