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Creating Dropbox Portable

Submitted by Devo on September 14, 2010 - 5:09pm

I've having issues getting a launcher for Dropbox to work properly. For some reason there are 3 dll files that become locked and will not allow the drive to be ejected. These dll files also make deleting the Dropbox folder in %APPDATA% impossible. Can someone take a look at this and help me out. I looked through the manual but I was unable to find information regarding this. I'm kind of a novice so it's probably something simple that I just don't know how to do yet. Any help would be appreciated.

when file associations (and protocol associations)

Submitted by portpete on September 12, 2010 - 6:09am

When are file associations going to be available?
And protocol associations (celestia uses celurl's which have the form: cel:\\* )?

I'm asking this because there is nothing mentioned about it in the portableapps format specification:
https://portableapps.com/development/portableapps.com_format

Need help with PAL and HLSW

Submitted by Gremlin on September 11, 2010 - 4:04pm

Hi all,

I am trying to make HLSW portable but have some troubles with it: the hlsw.exe creates registry entries by itself I cannot delete via the Portable Apps Launcher. That's with Windows XP SP3 and HLSW version 1.3.3.7b. My launcher.ini is as follows:

[Launch]
ProgramExecutable=HLSW\hlsw.exe
;CommandLineArguments='"-PATH:%PAL:AppDir%\HLSW\"' '"-INSTDIR:."' '"-DATADIR:..\..\Data\userfiles\appdata\HLSW"' '"-URL:%1"'
WorkingDirectory=%PAL:AppDir%\HLSW
SinglePortableAppInstance=true

[Activate]
Registry=true

[FileWrite1]

Tbird w\ HTML 5

Submitted by patrick013 on September 10, 2010 - 3:45pm

Hello,

If you could add HTML 5 to Thunderbird's RSS feed section I would
greatly appreciate it. This would allow full length RSS feeds to be seen
in Tbird with all the graphics, etc. without switching to the RSS website
to view the whole feed article. Most RSS feeds I receive are several or more
paragraphs with some pictures, depending on the feed. Presently Tbird only
shows a short text of the RSS feed rec'd.

Would make a great program even better.

thanks,

patrick013

ReadINIStr and WriteINIStr

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Submitted by GOD1 on September 6, 2010 - 11:11pm

Guys again I'm here for some help.

I'm wondering how to make my installer get the volume serial number and store it in a .INI file. Then the launcher gets the drives serial number and compare it to the serial number that the installer stored in the .INI file.

How would you make the launcher compare two serial number or what is that command that would compare two serial number?

Please help me with this riddle. I'd really wanted

to know.

Making PhotoScape Portable

Submitted by jliddil on September 5, 2010 - 7:37pm

I am a Newbie
I am trying to make a portable version of Photoscape for personal use.

I am using the PAL

The launcher gets created but it he log I get a bunch of code and this:

2 warnings:
!include: could not find: "C:\Program Files\PhotoScape\Other\Source\PortableApps.comLauncherCustom.nsh" (Segments.nsh:122)
!include: could not find: "C:\Program Files\PhotoScape\Other\Source\PortableApps.comLauncherDebug.nsh" (Debug.nsh:87)

I am completely lost

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