Portable App Development

Just thought I would share my convoluted menu system and themes ... Can't wait for the new PAM!

http://tinyurl.com/2ehdos

Would work better if

Documents/music/video and pictures links were from the device root and not relative paths - Could be compiled from source? I do not know how to do that.

PAs that use CommonFiles could have their paths edited (..\..\..\CommonFiles)(Can they?) At the moment I just have duplicates of Common Files ...

Ryan,

Hey, I've been trying to download your Portable RSS Owl to give it a try. I found the thread at RSSOwl Portable 1.2.3 but the link to your site seems to be having a problem.

Sorry for the new topic but the previous one was locked.

Thanks

I found Klonk's template to be so useful I decided to try my hand at it.
Mainly to help me learn NSIS better.
As of 1.3 it should be a fairly functional template.

History

ALT 1.4
-- Added function to replace drive letter in files with portable drive letter
ALT 1.3
-- Added file and folder handling

I am trying to compile a heavily modified script from this site and neither it nor the original script will compile. They throw this message:
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Invalid command: RealProgress::SetProgress
Error in script "C:\Documents and Settings\vuts\Desktop\NSISBackup\Other\EasyBackupSource\PortableAppsBackup.nsi" on line 267 -- aborting creation process


Full Story:

This is a theme i made for the Portable Apps Menu with the theme function. it's a replica of the windows vista start menu.

Update:

requires latest version of PAM mod by netdroid.

-add your own image to the little square at the top by making it 64 x 64 and naming it header.bmp and placing it into the folder where background.jpg and background_top.bmp are.
-bigger drive space slider.
-Segoe UI font
-New Theme.ini settings used.

Download

Developers,
Thanks for the great stuff. I have a couple of requests that maybe ya'll are able to put into portable apps. I hope this is the right place to ask for it.

1. Have OpenOffice default use VLC player on the drive that way everything runs purely off the stick.

2. If a file is opened from the drive have it open automatically with software from the drive instead of having to load OpenOffice and then open a file.

I don't know how hard this is because I'm not a programmer. But they would be nice features. Thanks.

64 bit windows XP is not compatabel with portableapps

I found Klonk's Template to be so useful in creating launchers, I decided to try my hand at it.
Mainly so I could learn NSIS more.
Version 1.1.1 fixes subsequent launch in InitApp (left it out, oops)
Version 1.1 adds registry handling and subsequent launch handling.
Registry entries are moved to {entry}_BAK in the registry rather than copied to a reg file on the portable drive, saving write cycles and write time.

Hello,

I was looking at this comment by John T. Haller, and I was wondering how close to completion the Portable Apps Format is. I'm going to be using it in Application Manager Portable when the final version is made available (apps in the repository will have to be in that format, and the installer application needs to know how to deal with it).

Thanks.

Rick Smith // Paladin225

I wonder if this is something that would have any bearing on what goes on here. They can't go after or muck with individuals with singular programs, for the most part, but those that make things easier or condsolidated, like a 'suite' could be hassled.