Portable App Development

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Hi Folks,

I would like to have a portable app built that can run off a USB thumb drive on both windows and Mac OS.

Any recommendations on whats the best technology to use to build this kind of a standalone application?

We initially started working with C# build realized that its dependent on the .NET framework installtion on the PC. And Mac OS is an issue as well.

Much appreciate your help.

Thanks,

dyse

At this point I'm just looking into making an application Portable. Moving everything out of the registry and back into the old .ini file format is daunting, but probably doable. However, this is a VB6 application that installs and registers the following files to \System32 if needed.

msvbvm60.dll
COMDLG32.OCX
VB6STKIT.DLL

I can find no provisions for files normally installed to system folders like this. Are we expected to just plunk these files in the directory, with the application, assuming windows looks there first?

Thanks.

I'm using your PortableTemplate Ver 1.3.
(http://usb.smithtech.us/apps/launcherscripts/ApplicationLauncherTemplate...)

That's so useful, and great, and easy.

How can i add InitDLL/CleanDLL function in PortableTemplate?

Some applications need that register DLL..

Thanks you..

i hope i got this in the right place
anyway i like portable apps on the whole but i wish there was some way to sort the menu into say sections like utilities, internet, office, games, etc or is there a way and i just haven't seen it yet. thanks in advance Ralph aka jinarion

Important: you probably shouldn't use this script. If a program uses the native Windows file selection windows (open/save), they will break with APPDATACOMPLEXREDIRECT, and if a program spawns other programs, you should not redirect APPDATA at all. However, for something simple and straightforward like a game which never spawns any other processes and has no native dialogues or anything like that, you're probably safe to use this script for simple redirection, or for simplicity's sake, just this one line:

Hi all,

I was wondering if there is a application that can check for new versions of portable apps installed on our media.

If there is one, would someone please give me the name of the application?

It's quite a hassle going through all my apps and finding if there are updates available for them.

Cheers

Hello @all,
OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 is behind the door and - of course - the portable version too

We have now languagepacks and the imagepack as real plugins with version check.
I'm thinking about removing python too an put it to an plugin, cause 90 percent of the users never use it (saves ~11 MB installed space and ~4MB in the package).

try this out give me some feedback

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Hello, PortableApps Community

Recently I have been trying to make the Instant messenger Xfire ( http://xfire.com ) because a few of my friends have been wanting it for traveling, etc.

I have compressed it pretty well, everything is done, except the installer (I need to add Plugin, and multilingual support to it) and making it so that Xfire leaves no trace on the computer it is run from (It leaves files, such as chatlogs in
C:\ProgramData\Xfire\
and
C:\Users\%CURRENTUSER%\AppData\Roaming\Xfire