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Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

NSIS header for SHGet(Known)FolderPath function

Submitted by wraithdu on March 6, 2008 - 4:01pm

I finally broke down and started to learn AutoIt3's DllCall function, and NSIS's related System plugin. They're hard Wink

This was all prompted by the problem I was having with Vista and RDTools. I needed a way to correctly retrieve the paths for Windows special folders (SendTo, My Documents, etc). Since I fixed it in AutoIt, I figured I'd do an NSIS version too. NSIS has a lot of these builtin, but it doesn't have them all.

nsis gui help

Submitted by Travis Carrico on March 6, 2008 - 12:38am

ok here's the thing. i want to make a gui using the nsdialogs plugin (which is what digitxp used for his gamesuit portable) with a listbox, buttons, etc. This is done completely in functions without using section main. my question is how do i use the two together. if i write the gui menu, how can i integrate it into the normal PA nsis launcher? i was playing around with it trying before but had no luck. sorry, i'm okay at scripting but i'm still a programming noob

Help With Nsis script please

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Submitted by Nathan9222 on March 5, 2008 - 9:29pm

Okay here is what i am having problems with, im able to get the app data to save in a folder its just its not saving in my "DATA" directory, its saving in the C:\
The original program saves its data in this directory "C:\Documents and Settings\Nathan\Local Settings\Application Data" Hope that is more helpful to help solve my problem. Also my registry entries arent being deleted, is there more i have to include in the script to do it or is something wrong? Any help would be appreciated.
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[Theme] Digiframe (with Userpic)

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Submitted by MrElchbau on March 5, 2008 - 8:37pm

Hello!
This time I'm working (not finished, just want to hear your comments :-)) on a theme set called "Digiframe". I'm added a folder "Userpic" where you can drop any 4:3ratio jpg by renaming it user.jpg. So you could customising a theme without many work.

Name
Digiframe
PAM-Version
PAM-Mod R30 to R31
Size
302 * 426 pix

Preview & Download

Pleasy test. Color-wishes welcome.
Your MrElchbau

ansi vs unicode

Submitted by Travis Carrico on March 4, 2008 - 5:49pm

there is a small program i want to do and it comes in a normal version and a ansi version. both seem to open for me but i wanted to know what was gained by using the unicode version over the ansi version. i know ansi is for win98 etc i could use the ansi version or both of them.

Help needed in selecting a development language

Submitted by PollieXmas on March 4, 2008 - 2:52am

Hi All,

I'm toying with the idea to develop an application and being a portable apps convert, it just makes sense to develop an app that can run on any (windows) machine without having any dependencies on what should be installed on the machine.

SharpDevelop (C#, Boo) was my first choice IDE but with its dependence on .NET/Mono means that I cannot use it.

Remote Desktop Portable Launcher and Cleanup Utility

Submitted by vertigo_2_20 on March 3, 2008 - 9:13pm

Since there are lots of people out there, myself included, who don't like using Remote Desktop on public computers because it leaves information behind, which is a hassle to clean up after, I wrote a small batch file for this purpose. This isn't a portable app in the sense of being its own program or even allowing you to run remote desktop on a computer that doesn't have it, but for computers that do, it should be a lot better than having to go through and clean up the tracks MS leaves behind or avoiding the use of it altogether on a public computer because of them.

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