Portable App Development

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


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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.

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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.

Hi,

I'm working on developing a laucnher for Adobe Photoshop CS2, suing Klonk's awesome PAT. I've taken care of the CS2 reg keys no problem, but I can't figure out how to catch a .dat file stored in a folder in the Documents and Settings/All Users/. Can anyone shed some light on this please?

Thanks in advance.

What is it for ?
The purpose of this discussion is to define guidelines for using JRE/GTK within the Portable Application Template as definied by Karl Loncarek here.

History
The original discussion starts here and here.

What are the first available guidelines ?

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