Portable App Development

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

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. :/

a portable apps installer for MediaMonkey is available here. I created it using the portableapps installer available from this site.

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.

Hi all . i'm newbie for portable application, please tell me
Can i develop my portable application with phyton ?
I know phython need to interpreter . how ?
thank you all

I'm creating this topic to get comments from developers, moderators and others on the updated PortableApps.com Format 0.91 and PortableApps.com Installer 0.91.0. Any discussion and contributions can take place here.

If I want to us a MS-PL licensed module in a GPL project, how does the main project have to be licensed? Can it be just GPL, or does it need to be dual licensed under MS-PL and GPL?

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?

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.

I am working on an open source (GPL v3) book reader and I would like to see if others would think it's a candidate or not.

It's available at http://books.raggiesoft.com/reader2.htm (be sure you're looking at Version 2, since version 1.5 uses the ugly/bulky .NET Framework).
I've tesed it on Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows XP Professional SP3, and Windows Vista Ultimate and it seems to run fine. (considering it's still an Alpha build)