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Portable App Development

Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

Need help with an advanced launcher that Simeon made.

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Submitted by digitxp on February 22, 2008 - 8:17pm

I was trying to make a special launcher for some apps. The compiler keeps spitting out errors. Here's the source code:

;Copyright 2007 Simeon Kühl and Digitxp

;This software is OSI Certified Open Source Software.
;OSI Certified is a certification mark of the Open Source Initiative.

;This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
;modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
;as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
;of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Creating A Portable App from Scratch

Submitted by knightcon on February 19, 2008 - 9:43pm

I am wanting to write a portable application from scratch which can be launched through the portable apps.com launcher. I was reading the page saying how to create a portable app and it discussed checking to see if the application used various system-specific features like registry, documents and settings, etc, and then creating a wrapper for it. could anyone give me any advice on how to create an application which is soley going to be run through PortableApps.com

gimp bg window HELP

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Submitted by powerjuce on February 19, 2008 - 12:56pm

complete change of this topic

i started to compile this program and i keep getting this error

  [Linker error] undefined reference to `CPreferences::CPreferences(std::string)'
  [Linker error] undefined reference to `CGimpWindowList::CGimpWindowList()' 
  [Linker error] undefined reference to `CPreferences::~CPreferences()' 
  [Linker error] undefined reference to `CPreferences::CPreferences(std::string)' 
  [Linker error] undefined reference to `CGimpWindowList::CGimpWindowList()' 
  [Linker error] undefined reference to `CPreferences::~CPreferences()'

and so on

Python or NSIS help

Submitted by Travis Carrico on February 16, 2008 - 3:08am

hi, i was making a portable app and i decided to first change the source code to make it portable instead of copying files all over the place. I changed a py file to set the path of the ini file to the current folder instead of Application Data. It stored the ini in the current folder fine but when i made the portableapps nsis launcher and launched it from that, then the ini file started showing up in the same folder as the nsis launcher instead of where it should be. I made a workaround for it but i'm a perfectionist and want to fix the problem. Why is it doing that, any ideas?

Development Test Improvements Reference

Submitted by Patrick Patience on February 15, 2008 - 11:41pm

As I try to help out new developers with some small improvements to get there portable application conformed perfectly to the latest PortableApps.com Format specifications (as far as I know them), I find it's getting repetitive to retype everything for all the users.

Below is a list of some small improvements I usually mention alongside any bugs, etc. I'll use this as a reference sheet to point new developers too, and new developers should also be checking these items before posting a development test.

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