Portable App Development

Wouldn't it be cool if the PortApps menu was part of the background of your computer?
Things could be positioned over it without closing it. Let me know if this is stupid.

Beta 3 is almost ready. Full GUI support for adding additional windows now works.

I had a thought though. It gets annoying having a message comes up when the user clicks an exe or com file on first run. This message is displayed because so far, CAFE handles all unmanaged extensions the same way.

My question is, should I rewrite that section so CAFE will ignore exe and com files, and just let the host computer handle them normally, or should I leave support for them in CAFE?

I found good proxy server. Its free and opensource. And i think it can be used with Tor. http://delegate.org
Anyone can make it portable? I know thats it write settings in Documents And Settings folder, but no info about registry...

I found this Open-Source GTK paint program, it's actually a pretty good program. It would be cool to work with GTK and stuff, and now with John's common files setup, I could probally work that in. Here's a few links, I'll play around with it a bit more, it's not Paint.NET, but it's still pretty good, let me know if you guys have any reasons why I shouldn't give it a shot.

And John, please let me know if you already have, or plan to do this one yourself. Because I know my version will just become pointless if you release a version.

not sure if this is where this goes, but everytime i run the portable apps menu, it loads a new copy of the program to the menu bar.

i would recommend that if it is run again it no longer loads a new menu, rather display the old menu that is already running.

im not sure if this is clear, but im just putting it out

Hi,

can anybody point me to some kind of tutorial how to create a simple portable app?
I know the ApplicationPortableTemplate.nsi but the docs are not made for beginners, are they?

I have a Java application that saves its configuration in UserProfileDir/.appname and I thought this would be a good exercise

Thanks for every help I can get,
Oliver

Kaze reports a new release:

http://wysifauthoring.informe.com/viewtopic.php?t=248&highlight=

Greg

Hi John,

last weekend we had a meeting of members of OpenOffice.org Deutschland e. V.

At this meeting we discuss ways to support other communities/persons who also work on Open Source Software.

I'm happy to inform You, that we will sponsor PortableApps.com with 500 Euro for the technical charges of hosting PortableApps.com.
Perhaps we could do more in the future.
At the moment it is a first step to show You our will to support this great project.

Please contact me via email in order to discuss the details.

Regards
Marko

I'm making a batch file launch script thingy, and I was looking at licenses. Can I, (or should I) put a license on it? It would obviously be open source...
But then I thought that I might not even be able to put a license on a batch script.

So what do you guys think I should do? This is really just a step towards my eventual leap into programming, and I'd like to keep my work as my own, not as someone else posting it as their own and saying they made it.

So a while ago I download SciTE, and I like it, and then I see an official release of Notepad++ which I downloaded a few minutes ago and there seems to be no (major) difference.

So are you going to release both, or were you trialling both and then decided that Notepad++ was more appreciated by the community?