Portable App Development

Hi I'm just thinking of creating something let's call it a "Portable Application Creator" based on NSIS.

This should be an installer that contains the Portable Launcher and it's sources.
It should create the necessary directory structure whereever you want.

It also copies the files necessary for the application into the appropriate directory.

This means: The user would have to install/download the application and extract it. Then he should provide the base directory to the creator. Thena ll fiel should be copied together with the portable launcher into a predefined directory structure.

Hi,

UPX is awesome. Extracting .jar files and recompressing them at ultra compressions is awesome, but is there any way to script this to reduce manual labour?

It would be nice to select a folder and have every .exe, .dll and .jar inside it and recursively compressed...

Has anyone made any attempt to do this?

Rich

Hi everyone,

Just thought i'd post here that i've managed to make a portable version of eyeBeam 1.5.6.1, the VOiP software (http://counterpath.com/) using Klonk's fantastic "Portable Application Template 1.3". The only thing it leaves behind are two empty folders in $profile/Local Settings/Application Data; CounterPath\RegNow Enhanced. If anyone is intrested i can post the .nsi

I am thinking of going through Portable XAMPP Lite and deleting all the images. I'm pretty sure that would reduce the file size a great deal. The trouble is, if I did that, I'm not sure certain parts of it (like phpMyAdmin possibly) will still work, or whether I will still be able to actually navigate those parts that use the images if I need to later.

The reason for wanting it even smaller is because I have a really small flash drive and it barely fits on there - and I would like to be able to put more stuff on there. (I am planning to buy a bigger one soon, but still, I'd like to have thi

Nicotine is Hyriand's rewrite of PySoulSeek with a PyGTK2 GUI
Nicotine+ is a fork, an attempt, to keep Nicotine working with the latest libraries, kill bugs, keep current with the Soulseek protocol and add some new features that users want and/or need.

As win32 develeloper* for Nicotine+ and a big fan of PortableApps, I made a portable version of Nicoine+

* kind of big word

You can download it here

This is the second version after alot of struggling to get a PyGTK app working which didn't have high cpu/memory useage.

Hi there.

I have been trying to create a portable version of the OS C++ IDE, Code::Blocks. So far, I have found the registry key it creates when run, and exported it. Also, I have found the folder that it creates in C:\Documents and Settings\$USERNAME$, called ".Codeblocks" and the file it creates at the same place, called .cb_profile

How can I make a launcher, that loads all these things to their correct places? I trird using a batch file, but the problem is, the registry values include absoltue paths :S

Any ideas?

-Girvo

I am not sure if it is adequate to post this here...but I'm looking for an Portable Application developer in London, UK. Anyone out there please get in touch m.almansur @ gmail . com

thanks

with u3 there is a launch window for all my installed apps and it would be great to have any of my portable apps in there with the rest of them.
Can they easliy be converted to do this?

Cheers
JowelBoy

Does anyone know how to successfully wrap a registry key such as the one below for a portable template.

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1715567821-1275210071-725345543-1003\Software\Softpointer

Hey community,

I've been able to get Wings3D (an amazing 3D modelling package found at http://www.wings3d.com/) to fully run on my USB drive with no connection to the underlying OS, EXCEPT for a single .ini file that contains 2 absolute paths to folders in the application (all the way from the drive root).

Obviously, by simply editing the .ini the app will run, but each time it is ran, the .ini file has to somehow be edited to be pointed to the correct directory.

This is my first attempt at creating a portable app, can the portable app template handle this kind of replacement in an .ini file?