Portable App Development

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).

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.

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.

there´s another suite [link removed by mod JTH] and i think portableapps and these one can join and become one, at least both are great options and each one have their one benefits, what do u think?

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.

If I use this to preserve "appinfo.ini" (so I can read the installed version on an upgrade) everything works fine, as long as the file exists. If it's a fresh install, the installer complains that it's corrupt and quits.

Is it a bug or is there some reason I shouldn't be doing this?

When I compiled the installer by PortableApps.com_Installer_0.13.3, it can only include the App directory, but not the Data directory's files.

What should I do?

Please bear with me i'm new at this and i'm not sure what i'm doing and don't know where to get the answer to me question.

Although I prefer PortableApps I have been using the U3 smart drive becaue I cannot find a way to protect what is on the USB drive. Where can I find a log in window lihe the U3 smart drive?

Okay... I'm running into a problem with Eclipse Portable and I've thought for days about work-arounds but came up with none.

This is what happens...

Eclipse Portable launches with RunLocally function.
App is copied to System.
App is launched.

Now here's where the problem starts...

if the user changes workspace... at the current moment, eclipse.exe will close and start-up again, but the problem is that EclipsePortable.exe DELETE'S THE APP DIR!!!

Often I install apps at the public library and my time runs out in the middle of installation, so I take out my drive in the middle of installing the app and then Windows freaks out and tells me that it can't find the drive. No matter how many times I exit out of that message, it pops up again. And it won't let the computer shut down for like five minutes. Could the future installers include an exit/cancel button or is that just how NSIS is made to work?