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Portable App Development

Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

Can you change the icon for the thumb drive??

Submitted by IIwAnDII on February 6, 2008 - 8:14am

i tried doing it..i placed the icon inside the drive and renamed the portableapps.exe line in the "autorun.inf" with the name of my icon with its ".ico" word...i remove the drive , plug it in , no result..what am i doing wrong or is it impossible for you to change the icon..but logic wise you should and can change icon...i even read an article from lifehacker.com about changing icons for drives....ooooh...i had a brain blast...do i have to make a separate autorun for my icon??...hm..so what do you guys know about this?

PortableMenu Suggestions

Submitted by chenko on February 5, 2008 - 11:36am

Not sure if this is the best place, I haven't seen many around but I have a few suggestions for consideration.

-Auto start applications when PAM starts, with options for delay.

-Run application/script on close.

-Custom shortcut to open the menu. (Alt+Winkey would be nice I think, though thats not a generally allowed shortcut isn't it?)

-Allow manual addition(and hide) of programs into the list. Could have a settings file that you put in programs to add and the programs to ignore in.

[Theme] Apps-As-Sketch

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Submitted by MrElchbau on February 3, 2008 - 8:16pm

Hi!
Today I've created another small & tiny theme. I bet you say "Ahh!" when you see it (because you know it very well). Yes, I love toys, and I like to remember to my childhood. So many years ago (I'm an old grumpy man) there are many treasures working without electricity... Yes, I'll stop now Smile

Making Nero portable?

Submitted by nnezz on January 31, 2008 - 6:24am

Please note, I'm NOT suggesting this for a portable app for this site.

I use Nero and Recode a lot. Unfortunately Nero makes a big mess when it is installed and I would love if I could make a portable version which could be tugged away in, and launched from, a single folder. Clean in, Clean out. No mess.

GPG Again

Submitted by rab040ma on January 23, 2008 - 11:28am

I'm looking at portable-izing something that uses GPG. My hunch is that it would be good to put GPG in \PortableApps\CommonFiles\gnupg or something like that. But I notice that Thunderbird Portable seems to have ThunderbirdPortable\app\gpg as the place it looks (unless one uses the optional ThunderbirdPortable.ini).

I suppose if installing on a removable device without TBP I could create the TBP directory tree and use gpg from there (or try to).

Or I could just put a copy in another \apps\gpg ...

Or I could see if I can get CommonFiles\gnupg or gpg or something working.

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