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Portable App Development

Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

Seeking app development partner

Submitted by patrickyoung on December 28, 2010 - 3:40am

We’re an online newspaper based in Sussex UK looking for an app development partner. Ideally we’d like to work with someone who can develop a mobile app for our newspaper. In return we will provide the content (news, features , competitions etc) . Advertising and sponsorship revenue would be shared and perhaps we could explore working together on other collaborations.

Dealing with Existing Files

Submitted by Jacob Mastel on December 28, 2010 - 12:04am

I'm working on updating my old AutoHotkey launcher with PAL. I've come to a bit of a roadblock though.

The easiest way I can think of is to store AutoHotkey.ahk (the default script AHK.exe will run) as well as a "ScriptSupport" folder in Data (to store any icons or supporting .ahk files the user might require). AutoHotkey.ahk will be moved to %documents% and the entire directory of ScriptSupport will join it.

JKDefrag portable is out of date!!!

Submitted by zdoofop on December 22, 2010 - 1:55pm

JKDefrag portable v. 3.36 was made obsolete long before the release of JKDefrag, or should I say, MyDefrag, v. 4.3.1, on May 21 of this year. As a concerned user of this program, I believe the time has come (and gone, long ago) to update it, especially now that it has been optimized for use on a flash drive.

link is here:
http://www.mydefrag.com/index.html

Chris, John, Devs: Addressing the problem of Windows’ “Special folders”

Submitted by Moonbase on December 14, 2010 - 6:46am

I just came across a big problem in the Spybot S&D thread again, which should be addressed once and for all — if anyhow possible: Windows’ “Special Folders” like %APPDATA% or “All users Application Data”.

Windows addresses special folder locations via so-called CSIDLs, and starting from Vista, it uses what we call KNOWNFOLDERIDs. It is vitally important to use these instead of trying to hard-code stuff like

[SOLVED] program being a memory hog - is it a PAL issue?

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Submitted by Gord Caswell on December 11, 2010 - 2:03am

I've been trying to get a working copy of Scribus 1.3.9, and I've run into an issue where when I start ScribusPortableTest.exe, scribus.exe gets started like it should, but it doesn't do anything, other than use up my memory - taking it to 100% in no time. Here's my launcher.ini, properly named of course: http://pastebin.com/k3KQ3Zdu

If that isn't the issue, could someone take a look the package for me, and tell me if I'm doing something else wrong that's causing this?

Why PortableApps.com installer expects an exe file in the AppName folder?

Submitted by javydreamercsw on December 7, 2010 - 12:54pm

I'm making my first app and struggled a while to get the PortableApps.com installer make the installer to my app. It kept complaining about no exe file on the AppName folder when its defined to be somewhere else on the AppInfo.ini. I had to copy and paste it there just to get the wizard started. Specially when I'm defining the files to be downloaded.

Am I missing something?

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