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Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

NSIS problem - application keeps overwriting registry data

Submitted by loranthus on December 6, 2008 - 8:32pm

Hi!
i'm new to nsis, only doing it for 3 days, and for starters i converted my Photoshop CS4, just for educational porposes, and b/c i don't want to reinstall it every time i reinstall windows. i have deepfreeze too, so all my apps are portabilised, and on drive D:\, but for now only with thinapp.
so, the problem is:
a have used the template provided here in the forums, and i have introduced 2 lines of code, here:

; --------------------------------------------------------------------------
; Apply portable registry key, delete existing key at same time

Official Languages

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Submitted by OliverK on December 2, 2008 - 3:11pm

Alright, I'm trying to cleanup and finish up PNotes for a prereleases. My question is, what are our officially supported languages?

I know that the ones that were included with the beta were:
Albanian
Catalan
Croatian
Czech
Danish
French
German
Italian
Polish
Portuguese
Spanish - Spain
Turkish

Is that what we have as official? Is there a page I can view them on?

New Face for the PortableApps. Menu

Submitted by JulesBL on December 2, 2008 - 12:45pm

Well my friends. I am just a young people(just 19 years old) who whats to make my owns creation, so, with the GIMP Portable app (Special thanks to PortableApps.com) I do a new face to the menu, the PA.com menu. Now I am using my new background for my menu. But I what to share my happiness with all of my PortableApps fans.

My new menu (one of all):
Preview the Menu

Small Suggestion for Toucan

Submitted by Jacob Mastel on November 29, 2008 - 10:08pm

Hey Steve I've got a quick suggestion for you. I've been setting up Toucan for people to use and they often love it. But I do have one quick suggestion because it often catches me as well as other people. In the drop down list Called "Job Name:" it's usually blank when you run the app. Well usually when I go to add a new thing my habit is to go type into the blank space and hit the new button. Can you make it so that you can't type into the box or have a grayed-out "Choose Job" or something in it. It's small but it's just one of those nicety things.

Wingware's Wing IDE Portable

Submitted by evstevemd on November 29, 2008 - 4:39am

Hello guys,
According to Wingware licence I can modify Wing IDE provided I have legal license. I have Wing personal Edition and need to take it with my USB stick. However I don't know how to do It. I know programming with Python but Not NSIS. Can anyone help me do it or make launcher? Remember, there is free version of Wing IDE called 101 version, so the launcher will help to have Portable Python IDE apart from SPE

Thanks All

GetParameters vs. GetParametersUnicode

Submitted by Bart.S on November 28, 2008 - 5:12am

What is the difference between the built-in NSIS Getparameters function and the custom GetParametersUnicode function used in many portable apps?
GetParametersUnicode.nsh says: "This function handles getting parameters when the EXE's path contains CJK characters".
The NSIS 2.40 changelog says: "Fixed GetParameters handling of MBCS characters"
So has GetParamtersUnicode any advantages or are they equal?

Java Jars and -D

Submitted by AaronSDG on November 26, 2008 - 2:16pm

The app I'm trying to portabilize (Baralga) only requires that the variable "user.home" be overridden. I currently do that with a simple Windows shortcut that executes:
$ javaw -Duser.home=Data -jar baralgaXXX.jar

Create the ability to store program icon launchers from the portableapps menu in user created folders

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Submitted by vito_1978 on November 24, 2008 - 1:41pm

it would be nice for portablapps menu to have the ability for the user to place some program launchers from the menu into user creatable folders, same as in windows, this way we can group programs that do similar things into the same folder for easy accessibility

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