Portable App Development

Hi:
I have already seen around here people asking for netbeans portable. I made an experiment and realized that it is possible - at least with version 5.5.1-
I zipped the contents of the folder where it was installed, then unzipped it in another pc, and found it doesn't have any problem, except that you have to let it know where is java jdk. So a simple patch is this: unzip it and edit etc\netbeans.conf
Set the java path in etc\netbeans.conf at:
netbeans_jdkhome="c:\program files\Java\jdk1.6.0_02" (or wherever you have it).

Hey guys, I've been working on an app.

Here is a screenshot.

The idea is to have it set to autorun. It would popup with the menu which would let you check off the actions you want performed as the drive starts up. It also includes a button which if clicked, would act as a mailto link, so they can contact you.

It would include an .ini file that would allow you to completely customize it. Pretty much everything could be tweaked in the ini file, including:
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I need your comments on this...

I'm doing the launcher for Atomic Tanks (http://atanks.sourceforge.net/) using pkeffect's mIRC launcher (based on John's nsi, and SmithTech) and with a splashscreen from NeoRame... everything looks ok but when I double click on ATanks Portable it shows a screen saying "atanks.exe not found"

I think the error is here: !define EXE "$EXEDIR\ATanks\atanks.exe"

The structure is this:

ATanks Portable (with Launcher)

ATanks (with exe)

What I did wrong?

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I want to know what people think of a feature for auto running apps when you plug in the flash drive and start up portable apps.

How I see it working is you can select auto running two ways for apps. Auto run on this machine or auto run on all machines.

The auto run on this machine feature would create a file somewhere on the local machine storing which apps to autorun, it could also name the file with unique id that is also stored on the flash drive so another flash drive with the same app wont auto run.

Well, i was recently messing around with Desktop.ini files using Microsoft's default OS way of doing it (right click on a folder, customize etc. ) but i got bored of that, and ended up writing my own. While doing so, i realised that after giving the Desktop.ini files the appropriate permissions to be used (hidden, system file etc.) i could still access them and edit them.

And from this i thought, "Hey, what if people have sensitive files and don't want random people using their computer to see them? They could use this nifty technique to solve their problems!"

There seem to be two schools of thought out there. One has version numbering follow the original app. The other uses a portable version for numbering.

The most common way seems to be the original app numbering.

There also seems to be differences on alpha, beta, RC, or PRE-RELEASE.

Any thoughts?

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The Kazoo Spartan

I wish that there is a way that users can modify the main concole as that apps could be stored in a folder so that apps can be sorted out as the user wishes his or her portable start menu should be. Ü
But seriously ... this modification would make a serious difference between using portable apps and PStart 2.11 by pegtop software (pegtop.net). I'm using both because PStart still has that customizing thing that Portable Apps couldn't offer. Hope you guys out there would give in to this wish of mine. Thank you very much and more power!

Is there a way with nsis to set windows path. Like in a batch file you would have

set var=path\to\folder

is there a way to do that using nsis??

Has there been discussion of environment variables? I know lots of programs ignore them, but some don't, and it might be helpful to do some things with them.