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Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

Calc Portable .txt update

Submitted by kam2kam on November 17, 2007 - 8:59am

I work for a GIANT blue chip company and use excel very heavily but since the discovery of portable apps I have fallen in love with all apps but in particular with Calc, however, while I and many friends would love to stop using all other vendors programs in favour of calc app, we find that there is one small functionally missing to make it complete, and that is to have the option to SAVE AS .txt and then check mark options to choose selected range only.

For this particular task we currently use Lotus 123. We have to have it saved this way because SAP system only likes .txt uploads.

Validation?

Submitted by YvesKreis on November 16, 2007 - 2:15pm

I tryed to create the folder structure for GeoGebra; is there a way to verify everything is fine? I will then modify our existing installer to support PortableApps...

Best Regards,
Yves

Access to registry (HKLM)

Submitted by tottle on November 16, 2007 - 5:27am

Hi,

I’m a newbie to PortableApps (but not application deployment as I use Novell ZenWorks at work) and I have a deployment question.

I’ve been doing lots of searching on the forum (and Google) about portable applications and how to install / deploy them.

When an application needs to write to the registry, the launcher / wrapper firstly makes a copy of the registry key, writes the new settings, launches the application, and then writes the original settings back to the registry.

Gens 32 Portable.

Submitted by lordgreggrega on November 15, 2007 - 3:58pm

Ok, look, im truying to help out some. I first made a launcher for what turned out to be proprietary software, and that sure as hell backfired. I was expecting a "thanks" and I got "you are illigal go away".

Anyhow, i understand.

so here is the deal, i am going to make a portable launcher for an app that wont get everyones panties in a wad.

I was thinking of my favorite emulator. http://gens32.emubase.de/

It should easily comply with the .paf requirements, everyhting is confined inside the program folder.

AppInfo.ini specification?

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Submitted by dagardner on November 15, 2007 - 9:57am

Is there a description of what should be in AppInfo.ini, or is it still in flux?

I was starting my first attempt at a portable app, and was trying to fill it out, but I was a little confused that there are three entries for version ([Format] Version, [Version] PackageVersion, [Version] DisplayVersion) and there is also [Version] PackageRevision.

I think everything else is pretty self explanatory, but those fields are a little confusing.

Xenon Feature Requests

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Submitted by John Bentley on November 6, 2007 - 9:05pm

Hey everybody.

I'm just finishing up what I hope will be the last beta of Xenon. I'm currently waiting for some word from NeoRame about the icons I sent to him (for Hover/Disabled states).

I was wondering what features everybody wants that are not implemented in the latest beta.

Fire away.

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