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Portable App Development

Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

Licensing Question

Submitted by JeffT on June 10, 2009 - 2:00pm

I'm curious - our business already sells USB keys as a little add-on/promotional product. Would we be permitted to preload USB keys with the PortableApps suite of software? If so, could we advertise the fact that our keys contain this software?

If this is permitted, but only for some types of licenses, which type of product license guidelines would permit such a thing?

Thanks

Modifying NSI sources

Submitted by LinkSlayer64 on June 9, 2009 - 8:58pm

Ok, I decided to ask this because I'm hoping i'm not the only one who has ever had questions, I need help editing the 7-Zip launcher source, and many things, I just don't get a lot of it, for example:
NoINI:
;=== No INI file, so we'll use the defaults
StrCpy "$ADDITIONALPARAMETERS" ""
StrCpy "$PROGRAMEXECUTABLE" "${DEFAULTEXE}"
StrCpy "$DISABLESPLASHSCREEN" "false"

it just makes no sense T.T especially, what are the dollar signs for? they're so prominent, but I don't have a clue what they're for
Thanks in advanced

.jar to .exe

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Submitted by onestoploser on June 8, 2009 - 4:54pm

This may be a stupid question, but can anyone help me create an .exe from an executable .jar file? I use the program all the time to convert comics to read on the Sony Reader. It's portable by default, and it doesn't save settings. I'd like it to show up in the PAM though, and use the portable Java on my external drive. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

I'd come into the channel, but I was told no more IRC from work. :/

VirtuaWin Portable Build

Submitted by LinkSlayer64 on June 2, 2009 - 8:37pm

I'm just saying, anyone here ever heard of "VirtuaWin" (google it, I'm not posting a link in case it breaks one of the rules, I never completely understand them) It is a multiple desktop program, up to 16, which has a portable build, however, if someone could test if it's fully portable, no registry entries (because I don't have a PC available to me that hasn't already run it atm) It is open source and what-not, and if possible, I would modify it to work with the portable apps format, if I'm able to.

Win7 Auto Reboot and PAP

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Submitted by NathanJ79 on May 26, 2009 - 5:25pm

I'm still running the Windows 7 RC1, and found a neat feature that might mess with the Platform. Following some updates, it will automatically restart. Now, it does tell you (and gives you a 15 minute countdown) but it's easy to miss if you get sidetracked. And once the counter gets to zero, it simply automatically reboots, seemingly without any consideration to what you are doing.

Won't this interfere with portable apps and the Platform, since upon exit, the launchers are supposed to perform cleanup operations? They won't do that if they're forced to close, will they?

Betaclock doesn't really work as portable. Why?

Submitted by portapotty on May 26, 2009 - 1:51am

http://www.betaclock.com/

I'm trying to make this program portable. I'm creating it using Thinapp using the normal method. When the portable exe is created and run, the actual clock doesn't display. The program runs fine in the background, I know this because if I double-click the exe again, the preferences window pops up and everything is working fine. But the actual clock display in the tray never shows up. i don't know why.

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