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Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

would love cygwin mini install & sun JDK

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Submitted by gcampton on October 12, 2009 - 11:07pm

This is probably more a pipedream than anything, But I would love a small cygwin install without all the high diskspace requirement install such as X-windows systems. just a lite cywgin bash shell with most dev apps, or compile apps -> m4, glibc -> gcc -> coreutils -> tar -> grep -> dash -> ksh -> bison -> gawk etc etc.

Or at least some implementations of GCC (mingw) and JDK and/or other languages to use with notepad++ portable.

TAppButtonPanel Component

Submitted by x0pherl on October 11, 2009 - 4:18pm

I've ripped out the Application Button engine from geek.menu and built a component that handles pretty much everything for the creation of buttons from the PortableApps directory.

It increases memory efficiency (though not as much as I had hoped, but also gets away from the maintenance of multiple StringLists with matched information, which always annoyed me.

Integrating this panel into the PA beta is probably going to take quite a bit of work, but far less than writing a category engine from scratch.

Make shortcuts to other files on the PA menu?

Submitted by hakon on October 3, 2009 - 5:43pm

Hi!

Thanks for very nice software i use almost everyday for everything Smile

At the moment there is only one thing i miss, it would be very nice if the menu adds bat scripts to the menu as it was an application Smile

Now i have to compile me an own exe that opens the bat script or browse to the right directory and open it.

Thanks

Launcher Idea

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Submitted by digitxp on October 3, 2009 - 3:34pm

I had this idea for quite a while.
Problem: Menus are slow... and bulky and rather inefficient when you come to think about clicking a 16x16 icon in the system tray, that might even be hidden (Win+Alt+Space would fix this, but that's not the point).
Solutions that work 50%:

  • Something blazing fast, like PStart or ASuite (my current system)
  • Autorunning the apps
  • Just going into the PortableApps Folder and Double Clicking on it

System integration

Submitted by srcsantos on October 2, 2009 - 7:12am

Let me begin by thanking everyone involved in the PortableApps.com project. I totally identify with the Open Source, Portable & Clean software philosophy.

I first found this site while searching for tools i could use from an USB Flash Drive, but i have recently been replacing most of my system's applications with portable ones.
Which brings me to the topic of this post: i have been trying to integrate Firefox (3.5.2) into my system (Windows XP Professional, SP3).

Launching 2 applications with one launcher

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Submitted by Pyromaniac on September 30, 2009 - 6:35pm

Is it possible to code a launcher to launch two applications with one laucher and if so, can you tell me what I gotta type (at least the "define" part). I searched like a bloodhound on the NSIS website.

Note that I'm using NIS Edit Portable (still in beta).

I won't tell you what its for right now but trust me, your gonna know why as soon as I find out.

A suite - PA.c rocket dock creative commons

Submitted by ristof on September 29, 2009 - 9:06pm

Hi all,

I tried the Lupo Suite, and it's interesting, has many of the features I was wanting from this menu and for a second I thought it was time to pack up my tent but I thought again.

What's good about that menu is you can drag-and-drop any icon on it and in classic mode it allows a fully clean slate so to speak, but what I did was (in addition to using rocket dock) put PA.com on there so it's easier to get to eg no Windows Start menu, and it works great.

TurboCASH Accounting

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Submitted by philipdc on September 23, 2009 - 9:32am

Can anybody tell me what I have to do to get TurboCASH listed as an approved Portable App? We have been shipping it as a portable app using Asuite forn early a year now and things are going really well. The App is open source and has been reduced from 160 Mb to 30 Mb for the portable verison.

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