Portable App Development

Hi, I've been playing with NSIS for a few days now, and am trying to portablize an app that I would like to carry around with me on my flash drive.

I need some suggestions/leads on how to handle DLLs by the app in question. I found that putting all the DLLs in the app's directory seemed to work fine. Is that acceptable practice? Or should I have it in a separate directory and have the .NSI file tell the launcher where to find it?

Hola, disculpen pero no hablo ingles y estoy usando un traductor. Soy hispano y me gustaria contribuir de alguna forma en que el programa o el sitio web estuviera en español. espero sus respuestas y comentarios.

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Hello, they excuse but I do not speak english and I am using a translator. I am Hispanic and liked to contribute to me of some form in which the program or the Web site was in Spanish I wait for its answers and commentaries.

I was wondering when will we get the script that compresses exes and dlls?

How do I set the icon of a paf.exe file?

I used both resource hacker and xn resource editor. (I couldn't get resource hacker to work but xn did.) I get a file that works but the PAM won't accept it. The file works before I set the icon but not after. How do I do this?

On my pc i there is a reference to the portable app menu, even after the drive has been removed for the computer
->Right click on start
->hit propterites
->hit taskbar
->hit customize
->in that list, you should see the portable app menu

I have created a portable version of Workrave that is ready for some testing. Workrave is a program that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). The program frequently alerts you to take micro-pauses, rest breaks and restricts you to your daily limit.

I came across this the other day by accident. Definitely a nice little program to remind me to rest etc whilst I am at work busying away on the keyboard.

The self extracting archive can be downloaded from its current location.

I've been trying to make a launcher for KVIrc (its an open-source IRC client), but having problems. Firstly, so everyone knows what I did, I installed the program first onto my computer, made a copy of the program folder, then uninstalled it. When you run it for the first time it comes up with a Config wizard in which you select a IRC nickname (which can be changed later), the places you want to put its config files and downloads, and some other things.

I've been working with NSIS to compile launcher for KompoZer with Vista Compatability. I'm getting errors with "RequestExecutionLevel". How would I still compile this on Windows XP, or would someone with Vista compile it for me?

My IM is: Twar3Draconis@hotmail.com (MSN Messenger)

Can i suggest an autoupdater for the portable apps menu be added to options.

Would be nice if possible if there was an option underneath install a new app that said check for updates and that could then update installed apps without having to go though and manually redownload updated versions of each app.

For all those lighting designers who use ETC's Expression Off-Line Editor or any off-line editor:

Download the off-line editor installs you would like to add to your menu.

Make sure you have plugged in your drive that you use, but don't start portable apps menu.

Install the editor like you normally would, but when you get to where you want to install it, select F:\PortableApps\ExpressionOff-LineEditorPortable\ where F is your drive letter and ExpressionOff-LineEditorPortable is the new folder created.