Portable App Development

John, this is basicially a question for you, nobody else can really answer this, but only give an opinion.

You made the launcher for Micrsoft's On-Screen Keyboard.

Well, as my first portableapp, I suggested to someone else last night to try to make something simple like a launcher for Microsoft's Calculator.

Well, then I said, hey, why I don't I give it a shot.

I would like to suggest the option be added to the ini file to make Firefox Portable the default browser.
Its only about 12 registry entries.
I realize its an advanced option but really only advanced users are gonna be messing with the ini file anyway.
Also there seems to be some interest in running the portable version from the local hard drive as their main browser.
I run the portable version but haven't gotten around to editing the registry to make it the default.

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Hi there. I'm very interested in all these portable softwares and think u guys had done a great job.

However, I'm not too sure how an application is being made into portable format and how did .paf came about. Can anyone please guide me along??

Thanks in advance.

I’ve been really WOWed with this PortableApps stuff and have been feverishly adding John’s ported applications to my thumb drive plus some of my own with some help from the user community in the forum. Excellent work by John and the community group.

I am now down to one application (for now anyways) that I can’t get to work unless I’m on a machine with admin rights – obviously defeats the portable part. It is e-Sword (www.e-sword.net), a free Bible study software tool.

Hello guys and thank you for Portable Apps which is really good.

I have concern about the availability of applications in another languages as only english is available. As I'm french, I want to know if you are planning to release applications in french (not only the menu v1.2 which have translations available). I can contribute because I'm sure most people don't have the knowledge to do it themselve (beginners can't do that). I can make Portable Apps package like yours but in french.

Hey All!!

This is my first post here...
I searched and didn't see it mentioned anywhere, so here it goes!

Can anyone make a launcher for Aviscreen??

http://www.bobyte.com/AviScreen/index.asp

It's freeware, but all it does is make a few registry entries.
I rarely change the settings, so if somebody could just make a wrapper to delete the reg edits on close, I would be much appreciative.

My starter:
1. Creates a temporary file
2. Starts the application
3. Quits

The file is in use as long as the app is alive and a while longer.
Then I'd like to delete it.

Does the winapi task scheduling work on VERY limited accounts?
I haven't checked too carefully, because I doubt it does.
I tried
CreateFile( filePath, 0, FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_SHARE_WRITE, 0,
OPEN_ALWAYS, FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE, 0);
before starting the app, but it didn't work.

If you understand the paritual lagunage a programm is written in and you have the source and no licensing problems... What do you think about rebuilding the source?

Hi everyone...
I have developed pretty much PApps, but what I am doing is I am doing a
zip and then unzipped them to the location.. instead I really don't want to use winrar anymore I want to zip them in .paf format.

Please, HOW CAN I DO THAT?

When i managed, keep an eye out... as I will be posting about 5 new portable apps...
great stuff...