Portable App Development

I've been testing with the QuickPortTemplate_v1.1 code but i always get an error with the Messagebox::show command here
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Section "Main"

;Check machine for local install and if found show a message box to choose what settings to use.
${registry::KeyExists} "${REGKEY}" $R0
StrCmp $R0 "0" 0 RunPortable
Messagebox::show "" "Local ${APPNAME} Installation Found..." "" " ${APPNAME} is currently Installed to the local machine.$\n Do you want to use your Portable Settings or the Local Settings?" "Portable Settings" "Local Settings" IDCANCEL

Well, I'm on for Windows Vista Beta 2, and have spent a couple hours testing apps.

Progress:

-Liberta

-Autorun.INF, Backup, Sync, and Log were tested.

-All ran without a hitch.
-Backup works with both zip and 7z formats.
-Sync was tested with two new test catagories, and worked great.
(NOTE: Steve, maybe a refresh button for the categories after changing them, as it requires a restart to see changes/additions.)

-John T. Haller's Portable Appy Goodness

-Portables: Abiword, Firefox, Thunderbird, Gaim, Miranda, FileZilla, OO.o excluding base (not tested), VLC, SciTE, ClamWin, GIMP.

Backup 2.0 is now released. It features a number of improvements over 1.x & 0.x including:

• New Interface
• Support for 7Zip
• Appending Backups
• Over 100% faster

Get it here. Project page here

Enjoy!

To me, standalone has always meant a single executable file, without being dependant on DLL's. Is there a way of integrating such files like DLL's into the executable? I think this would solve many of the problems on library and school computers that so far are unable to block standalone .exe's from running inside .zip files. If further development is made on standalone apps, it would be helpful if the type of app is labelled on the site, i.e. "Standalone single executable", or otherwise.

We are looking for some people to write pages for the Libertà Help Handbook. If you can assist, please post here and send your content to cubegames@gmail.com
It can be written in either text or HTML version. It should be set out like the Sync help here

Libertà Backup 2.0 RC 2 Released.

General Info

A near complete revamp of Backup 2.0 This version should be much faster (e.g. 100% at least). It also enables all of the previously disabled options.

Get it here
Project page here

N.B. The project page still relates to 1.01

Known Bugs

None (yet ;))

How do you make launchers? Im still in the batch phase- and it sucks.

Libertà Backup 2.0 RC 1 Released.

General Info

Just a release so that I can see first impressions.

Get it here
Proeject page here

N.B. The project page still relates to 1.01

Known Bugs

• The append option doesn't work
• The option to use date/time doesn't work

Sync 2.0 is now released. It features a number of improvements over 1.x & 0.x including:

• New Interface
• Inbuilt Category Editor
• More Efficient Copying

I'm sure you will agree that it is a much better product. Thanks to Jacoby for his extensive testing.

Get it here. Project page here

Enjoy!

P.S. Look out for Backup 2.0 Coming Very Soon.

P.P.S Due to a last minute bug cache options are disabled. 2.1 with corrected cache options com

I thought this might be useful to some portable app developers. The program is called UPX Mass Compress (which uses... UPX, who would have guessed?), and it's a simple program that quicky compresses a bunch of dll/exe files. This program saved me lots of time for the two portable applications I maintain, especially with all the dll files in Portable Scribus.

Here's the download and information page:
http://www.quate.net/newsnet/read.php?id=44

Hopefully this is useful to someone, as I took the effort to make it public. I probably lost the time I saved from using this program, to make it ready for a public release.