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IM-History Implementation for Portable IM Software

Submitted by YaronS on December 28, 2007 - 8:24am

Hey everyone!
Im pretty new with all the portable stuff (Portable Apps, Thinstaller, U3, etc.)

But i'm relatively experienced with Miranda IM and some other IM Apps...
I was thinking about implementing IM-History along with Miranda IM or any other IM app...
Can be found at the adddress: www.im-history.com

The general idea is to save your IM History globally and not only on the Disk-On-Key/ Network Drive/ Zip Drive, etc.
Having this ability will also allow the user to have seperate IM apps installed on different machines and locations

Can someone help me with my Portable Apps Suite not launching self-made programs?

Submitted by Baulderan on December 28, 2007 - 2:10am

I wanted to get WinRAR and Project 64 to appear in my Portable Apps Suite tray. I tried just copying and pasting the portable version of WinRAR in there, but there were about 3 EXEs, and they would all appear in my Portable App tray. So I went about writing a bat file that would do the same, so I could just convert it to an EXE and have just that one display. Everything went fine- I wrote the program, compiled it, etc, and it worked great! But, when I started up the Suite's tray and launched it from there, it didn't. Anyone know why?

[Tutorial] How to get any portable program (even if it's not on Portableapps.com) to show in the Suite

Submitted by MidnightRising on December 27, 2007 - 1:38pm

Last night, I downloaded WinRAR Unplugged, which is a portable version of WinRAR that's not on the PA site. Now, I really wanted it on the PortableApps Suite (it just makes life easier) so I figured out how to get this, or any portable program, to appear in that window.

newadvsplash updated, wait command removed

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Submitted by Shawn Faucher on December 27, 2007 - 12:34pm

The newadvsplash plugin (used in nearly every PAF NSIS launcher) has recently been updated and the wait command removed, in favor of a /WAIT option added to the stop command. Annoyingly enough this means that nearly every PAF app will need to be updated to compile with the latest version of the plugin, which is now the version available from the NSIS sourceforge page.

Old syntax:

newadvsplash::wait

New syntax:

newadvsplash::stop /WAIT

Howto: Convert your old U3 Firefox to the new 2.0 Firefox and the PortableApps.com Platform

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Submitted by Simeon on December 26, 2007 - 10:05am

This is a Howto I put together for all the people who own a U3 drive and want to switch to the new Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition (2.0.0.11). The recommended Menu is the PortableApps.com Platform but I will also explain how to make it show up in your U3 Menu using Smithtechs ShortcutCreator for U3 if you don't want to switch.

How do I make a Launcher for multiple exes?

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Submitted by Simeon on December 25, 2007 - 11:20am

I have some programs I use on a regular basis so I want a launcher to launch them with one click.
I already did that with NSIS but I don't always want to run all the programs. So I thought maybe there is a way to have NSIS display a list with checkboxes and the Appname next to it and it runs all the Apps you click the checkbox.
Or something like that.
I couldnt figure it out myself cause my NSIS skills aren't that good Sad
Does anyone has any hints???

Merge many EXE file into one

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Submitted by Imaggens on December 22, 2007 - 4:00pm

Hi, people.

Today I made my first Portable Application. It's a System Utility with many task and tools...

But, are many EXE files (25 actually). And I want to merge these into one.

The original application has a file called Integrator, that invokes other files by an own menu.

My idea is join these 24 files into Integrator, with internal links that I don't know how works.

It's possible?

Thanks

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