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Portable App Development

Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

Security Bug

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Submitted by Bashir on July 31, 2007 - 5:52am

I'm using internet from my faculty by network connection. All the PCs connected to the admin PC and monitored by netsupport

Yesterday discovered that one of the employee at the admin section was stealing my portable data by netsupport, so is there any way to stop him from stealing through the network?

I stopped use portable apps cuz i don't want to make my personal e-mails available for common !

Making a Portable App.-

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Submitted by Aciago on July 30, 2007 - 9:36am

I have an App that is not portable, but it is self contained in a folder... it's not portable because it leaves a *.conf file in Docs&sets/user/AppData/... even copying that file into the App folder it creates the conf file again.

My question is... How can I make a launcher to 1) read the conf file from the App folder, copy it into the AppData folder, and launch the App... and 2) close the App, copy the conf file into the App folder and delete the AppData file???

A new development idea

Submitted by ciscorucinski on July 29, 2007 - 2:31am

After not being on this site for some time, I found new applications that sounded good. I downloaded them; a few where amazing, like Notepad++ Portable, and a few where not. The ones that were amazing looked professionally done; what I thought was expected from portableapps. On the other hand, some of the other ones just looked like, keywords...looked like, they were done fast, without much thought, and didn't look easy on the eyes. This is the first time this as happened, and I hope it is the last time it will happen; because of this new idea.

Menu and Suite - a request to dear John

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Submitted by gayathri on July 29, 2007 - 1:31am

Dear John,
First let me appreciate you for the concept behind this site and outstanding portables. The way of thinking, designing and updating the 'wonder' portableapps.com is really a jewel to your crown. As a newcomer to this site and portable concept I would like to say that u are one of the 'genius creators' in the field.

Why does U3 copy local?

Submitted by FeeserAndrew on July 28, 2007 - 3:14pm

I've been looking at the U3 technology and I noticed that the launchpad copies the application to the C:\ drive first, then runs it from there.

Is there a real benefit to this? I mean, isn't the app loaded into memory anyway? Is there a functional benefit to running the app locally vs from the portable drive directly?

Thanks,
Andrew

C.A.F.E. Mod Beta 3

ZachHudock's picture
Submitted by ZachHudock on July 27, 2007 - 8:23am

Beta 3 is almost ready. Full GUI support for adding additional windows now works.

I had a thought though. It gets annoying having a message comes up when the user clicks an exe or com file on first run. This message is displayed because so far, CAFE handles all unmanaged extensions the same way.

My question is, should I rewrite that section so CAFE will ignore exe and com files, and just let the host computer handle them normally, or should I leave support for them in CAFE?

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