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Something very weird is happening with my launcher-Please Help/Look at the problem!

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Submitted by Espreon on September 13, 2007 - 3:45pm

Ok, when I use my Regshot Portable on my HDD the settings are retained. But when used on my thumbdrive they are not retained strange huh? I even downloaded it again onto my hdd and installed it to my HDD and TD and the settings are retained on my hdd (when I used it on my hdd) but they are not retained on my td (when used on my td).

Link: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/armogohmasuites/RegshotPortable-1.81.pa...

Please download it and tell me if you are having the same problem.

Also here the .nsi file: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/armogohmasuites/RegshotPortable.nsi

I need help with something-Please Help!

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Submitted by Espreon on September 12, 2007 - 7:10pm

Yeah I am making a launcher 4 RapidSVN Portable, and it won't retain its settings, (the keys in Registry created by it are eradicated but the keys are not found in the Data folder). Also it leaves behind a folder called Subversion in Appdata, with 3 folders (all are empty)in it and 2 configuration files (they have no file extensions though).

Heres the launcher .nsi: https://downloads.sourceforge.net/armogohmasuites/RapidSVNPortable.nsi

NSIS .bat java (bang)

Submitted by r0bis on September 12, 2007 - 6:03am

I am sure someone must have run into a similar problem before. I am putting Freemind (the beloved java mind map/tree structure organiser) on my PortableApps stick. Seeing how nice it is to work with the menu I am dead set on building a menu launcher with NSIS - after all I love the apps and the menu and I cringe every time I click through folders to launch my app. What happens is:

1) I put a copy of jawa into PortableApps\CommonFiles

Using Packman to compress exe files

Submitted by millarrp on September 11, 2007 - 11:29pm

I am planning on putting CDeX onto my thumb drive. Since CDeX is portable already (based on https://portableapps.com/node/1010) I'm entertaining the idea of compressing the exe to see if it would improve the performance while running from the thumb drive.

I was looking at different compression options and I stumbled across an open source compression tool call PackMan that is supposed to compress exe files. Since I've never heard of it before I was wondering if anybody else has used it and if it is any good.

Is NSIS capable of making GUIs for things other than installers?

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Submitted by Espreon on September 11, 2007 - 12:11am

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Cause I was planning to make an nice GUI to a suite of apps commonly used in the development of portable applications (Regshot,NSIS Portable,XN Resource Editor PE, NotePad++ Portable [recompiled w/o the TMed crap]) Also I was planning to make an AutoIT Edition (AutoIT replacing NSIS Portable, 4 those who prefer AutoIT).

Also would it be better to have both AutoIT and NSIS Portable included under 1 download and one installer but have an option wether to install one or the other or both.

CDisplayEx Portable Edition 0.1a

Submitted by wsm23 on September 10, 2007 - 2:26pm

I know just enough about this stuff to be dangerous.

I know both Patrick and Ryan have offered help so I thought I would set up a separate forum topic for CDisplayEx.

What: "CDisplayEx is a Comic reader based on CDisplay. It use the popular 7-zip plugins to read many archives types like cbr cbz cbt rar zip tar 7z lzh arj cab tar.gz tar.bz2. It supports jpeg png gif and bmp images."
Where: CDisplayEx
Size: Just over 1Mb.
Registry: None.

PortableApps Requirements

Submitted by whatznext28 on September 10, 2007 - 2:11pm

I am trying to find a place to start in order to run applications I as portable. How can you check to see if a program meets the PortableApps requirements as far as files or registry entries being left behind on the host computer? (i.e. software that checks to see if settings on a computer has been changed, etc.) Where do you look to see if files or registry entries are created on a host computer? Is there any software that can help to make a regular application portable? Thanks in advanced for any information you have that can lead me in the right direction.

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