Portable App Development

Hi All,

I'm toying with the idea to develop an application and being a portable apps convert, it just makes sense to develop an app that can run on any (windows) machine without having any dependencies on what should be installed on the machine.

SharpDevelop (C#, Boo) was my first choice IDE but with its dependence on .NET/Mono means that I cannot use it.

Since there are lots of people out there, myself included, who don't like using Remote Desktop on public computers because it leaves information behind, which is a hassle to clean up after, I wrote a small batch file for this purpose. This isn't a portable app in the sense of being its own program or even allowing you to run remote desktop on a computer that doesn't have it, but for computers that do, it should be a lot better than having to go through and clean up the tracks MS leaves behind or avoiding the use of it altogether on a public computer because of them.

I've been working on a launcher for a program called stickies. Yes I know it's not open source, but I use it a lot and it's legal so I'm just making a launcher for myself. Anyways I was wondering how you check the system to see if a program is installed. In the cleanup section of my program I have it move files from the App data folder if they're accidentally put there, then delete them. Well if stickies is installed I don't want to do that I just want to make new ones. Can anybody help me? And if you want I can email you the launcher.

hey all i need some nsis help.
I found this code on the nsis site and could u guys please explain it to me
thanks

!define APP_NAME find_close_terminate
!define WND_CLASS "Notepad"
!define WND_TITLE "Untitled - Notepad"
!define TO_MS 2000
!define SYNC_TERM 0x00100001
 
!include WinMessages.nsh
 
Name "${APP_NAME}"
OutFile "${APP_NAME}.exe"
 
 
LangString termMsg ${LANG_ENGLISH} "Installer cannot stop running ${WND_TITLE}.$\nDo you want to terminate process?"
LangString stopMsg ${LANG_ENGLISH} "Stopping ${WND_TITLE} Application"
 
!macro TerminateApp
 

I've put up a new page on Ryan's PortableApps wiki explaining how to check if your appicon.ico complies with PortableApps developer standards.

If there's an artist or dev out there that can figure out how to use @icon sushi to create new icons or add more sizes & bit depths to and existing icon that would be great.

http://cubegames.net/development/pre-deployment_checklist

can i get nero portable version

https://portableapps.com/EraserPortable
To
https://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/eraser_portable

https://portableapps.com/MPlayerPortable
To
https://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/mplayer_portable

https://portableapps.com/PuTTYPortable
To

I would like to create a kind of generic installer / downloaded for applications that are maybe to large to be put inside the installer by Downloading the installer or zip file by the installer.

- User starts the installer
- Autodetect and select PortableApps folder
- Deploy the PortableApps template launcher and folder structure
- Download the main application (optionally choice of download locations) to temp
- After download unzip or install deploy the app in the correct portable location

I just have some ideas to improve the operating systems page under applications.

First off, I found some nice Tango style icons for Mac and Linux that seem to be GNU GPL licensed, I think they would look fantastic there. There's a bit of choice for Mac, and Tux is beside the Lego man, here.

Also, I think we should add a better screenshot to the Mac On a Stick Page (I can do that), and maybe ask the owner of the tutorial if we can post it here, and even post the document that gman(?) posted in the Other Apps Support forum.

wanted firefox version 1.5 portable please please