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Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

Any opinion on removing extremely old and unsupported apps?

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Submitted by invenio on August 24, 2024 - 5:56pm

I was wondering how people felt about removing old apps that are no longer in development. Like having a rule that if an app hasn't been updated in 10 years it should be removed? Or is it just better let it stay until it stops working with new OS's?

For example, I just saw Abiword hasn't been updated in a decade and even their website is gone.

Chrome + chrome_plus

Submitted by guardiao on July 25, 2024 - 1:56pm

In recent days, I've been testing several Chrome-based browsers with the Chrome Plus dll, and the results are promising.
These programs are indeed portable, and when used on another computer, extensions, cookies, and passwords are preserved.
It might be a good idea to check out the open-source project on GitHub: https://github.com/Bush2021/chrome_plus.

FreeCAD searching Program Files path on startup

Submitted by STovey on July 20, 2024 - 11:39am

I had FreeCAD installed on my system at
C:\Program Files\FreeCAD 0.21
A bug arose in which it kept crashing so I uninstalled it.

FreeCAD Portable had issues starting as well so I did an uninstall and reinstall.
Now, FreeCAD Portable 0.21 issues the following error upon starting;

No python at C:\Program Files\FreeCAD 0.21\bin\pythonw.exe

When I close all the error popups, FreeCAD starts

Any idea where FreeCAD is getting the path to search?
Thanks in advance.

Please, can you make titles clickable in Portable App Discovery or make a menu option to organize apps by sub-categories?

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Submitted by RedivaDantes on July 14, 2024 - 12:01pm

Hi all, I'm new to the forum, but I'm an old Portableapps user.
I didn't find any question like this in the forum, so here I am.
Also, I hope that this is the right section to post this question. If not, please tell me how to move it in the right one.

Run some custom code after execute, but before application exit

Submitted by DistractionRectangle on July 8, 2024 - 9:57am

So basically, I have an app that modifies the registry at run time which breaks portability unless I rewrite it after the fact. I've hacked together two approaches - one using a bat script to launch the app, sleep, and then rewrite the registry, and one using OverrideExecute. It's just a slightly modified version of execute block from the launcher source. The bat file is basically the same thing.

Some Code Portable 1.0.6

Submitted by dbsoftlab on June 10, 2024 - 5:47am

Some Code Portable

Application: Some Code

Category: Development

Description: Some code is a workflow management software. Some code is used for home or business automation. The users can easily extend the software functionality by adding their own actions. Some code is free for personal use.

Note to the PortableApps maintainers: Some Code is ready to be included into Portable Apps catalogue.

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