Portable App Development

I have been looking for a truly portable pdf reader for a while, thought I had found it with Foxit, but it writes to the registry, it occured to me that maybe a plug in for Open Office might be the answer.

Playing with things this morning I began to wonder about the automatic updates for Firefox/Thunderbird/etc. and keeping our portable versions current. The auto-update feature keeps the browser/mail reader/etc. current, but the portable versions use a launcher and perhaps other nifty stuff which isn't updated.

The pFirefox support page lists the launcher version number in the revision history which was easily compared to the launcher version number in my install. They matched; the world is good. The pThunderbird support page does not list the revision history for pThunderbird and does not refer to the launcher version at all. I've been letting my pThunderbird install auto-update since before it went gold and now I find that my launcher revision is 1.1.1.3, several revisions behind the current 1.1.4.1 found in a fresh download of the package. </ugly run-on sentence>

Soulseek(tm) is a unique ad-free, spyware free, and just plain free file sharing application.

After a lot of tweaking, and testing, here is a launcher for the request in This Thread. After one customization, you will have a self-contained, portable, and personalized Soulseek. All instructions and required information can be found in the READMEFIRST.txt file. Source code is included.

Zip File:

Just to let you all know, I'm doing the icons for Libertà
If you would like to help, comment below.
I have most done, but need some help with some of them.
Unfortunately, my computer is in repair, but as soon as it is back I will distribute the PSD sources for the ones I have done to the people that can help me.
Steve, any comments?

Hey,

I am not sure if it is wanted... for personal use I got the help files working in the portable gimp.
It was just too easy so perhaps I am just making a fool out of my self presenting it.... However, its seems (in the gimp forum here) some ppl are asking how to get it working. Perhaps a central dowload on this site should help them?

most regards

martin

I had been thinking of making a launcher for this for some time. Then, just this past weekend, it finally sunk in - uvnc is GPL! So, I modified the source to the vncviewer app, so it is now portable (I originally implemented a "-portable" parameter, which is still available below).

Sync 2.0 RC3 released

General Information

This version fixes both the overwrite files option and the remove original files option. It also adds a category editor and fixes the title. Finally it moves to properly sizer based layout as well as cleaning up the code.

Please post any bugs below. Get it here. Project page here.

Known Bugs

• None at this time

To Do

• Nothing

Hi All!
I'm working on an app to launch latex compilers for math typing from a text editor.
Actually I've to use absolute path to the compiler living on USB-stick, is there someone who dealt with a workaround to let this path not depending on USB-disk-letter assigned from Windows?
Many thanks for any ideas
Paolo

This template should be suitable for most applications to make them portable.

Download it here (latest version 1.4.2):
http://www.loncarek.de/downloads/ApplicationPortableTemplate.zip

It allows saving a lot settings (one or all of them at once):
- One or more registry keys
- One or more settings directories
- One or more settings files

The source contains a lot comments, documenting what I did and why (for those who want to learn).

TV-Browser stores its settings on Harddisk.
I found out (in the tv-browser forum) that you only have to change some absolute paths into relative paths. But I dont know how to do it. Hope somebody can help me. Here are the paths:

# In this folder TV-Browser stores the settings
userdir=${user.home}/TV-Browser

# In this folder TV-Browser stores the TV listings
tvdatadir=${user.home}/TV-Browser/tvdata

# In this folder TV-Browser stores the plugins
#pluginsdir=${user.home}/TV-Browser/plugins