Portable App Development

I decided to add a couple features to the PortableAppsMenu because I wanted those features and they're very easy to implement and thought I'd share it with the rest of you.

added the ability to hide files and give them display names

to add a display name:
1. make a corresponding text file with a '.displayname' extentsion
-the filename itself is the .exe name plus the extentsion .displayname
-myprogram.exe's displayname is stored in the file myprogram.displayname

e.g. if I want to give a display name to myprogram.exe I just make a text file called

Hi, everyone!

Simon Tatham has announced the release of PuTTY 6.0 on the 29th of April.
Any chance we will be seing an "official" release of PuTTY Portable 0.60?

His announcement follows (only edit is e-mail addresses scrambling):

PuTTY version 0.60 is released
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All the pre-built binaries, and the source code, are now available
from the PuTTY website at

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

This is a minor patch release to 0.59; it contains only bug fixes,
and only very minor new features. New features include:

I've tried to find a way to set up FirefoxPE to use Sumatra and VLC as the default apps to use from a CD. I know that it's easy enough to do when running from a USB drive as the PortableApps launcher itself is supposed to take care of this, it even says so on the website for FirefoxPE. Anyone know of a way to do this without having the PA launcher around?

Hi, is it possible to segment the left side of the portable apps menu according to the different categories?
Such as a "Game" section for Sudoku, and a "Player" for different media player, and a "Tools" section?

Thanks for any reply.

Well, I know that there are some requests for features in Toucan, so I thought I'd group them all here so that I don't lose any. Oh and yes I know that 1.0 isn't out yet, I sent John an e-mail about that yesterday so hopefully that should get moving. Currently I have the following additions for 1.1:

1. A job manager
2. The ability to retain folder timestamps
3. An inbuilt updater

John,
I have a lot of fully legal software i use daily if i wanted to make them portable
say sas is that legal?

Steve,

Please may we have a checkbox on the Synch page to "Retain folder timestamps"

Roger

Do you have any other folder in X:\Document\?
Now you can open it with single click,by add a exe in list.

This is source code,modify the location you want to open and complie by DEV C++
http://home.kimo.com.tw/chongyoeyat/Open.7z

Done.This is my first workable win32 program. Any question please ask.

Do not use this. Use the PortableApps.com Launcher instead.

Discussion has moved here:
https://portableapps.com/node/10491

What ist it for?
It helps you to create a clean portable application. This means no traces are left on the host computer and the application doesn't (normally) have to be changed in any way. (Maybe some configuration files)

Where can I get it?
http://www.loncarek.de/downloads/ApplicationPortableTemplate.nsi
use "Save As..." in your browser.

Following on post https://portableapps.com/node/1141#comment-6250

here is the batch file to launch FreeMind using the commonfiles/java structure

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@echo off
..\CommonFiles\Java\bin\java -cp lib\freemind.jar;lib\ant\lib\jaxb-api.jar;lib\ant\lib\jaxb-impl.jar;lib\ant\lib\jaxb-libs.jar;lib\ant\lib\namespace.jar;lib\ant\lib\relaxngDatatype.jar;lib\ant\lib\xsdlib.jar;lib\ant\lib\jax-qname.jar;lib\ant\lib\sax.jar;lib\ant\lib\dom.jar freemind.main.FreeMind

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