Portable App Development

I need help! how do you start to design the apps. Can anyone help?

MinGW Portable is a collection of freely available and freely distributable Windows specific header files and import libraries combined with GNU toolsets that allow one to produce native Windows programs that do not rely on any 3rd-party C runtime DLLs. Which has been specially made for your portable data storage device. This allows for you to compile Windows, Linux, or even Mac Applications anywhere and everywhere there is a computer.

MinGW Portable can be found on Nobis Development Group's Website: http://nobis.zapto.org/

MinGW can be found on the Official MinGW Website: http://www.mingw.org/

Hi I am interested in how John created the StartPortableApps.exe, it would be really useful to have something like that can be customized as shortcuts can not be made relative. Was it it made using NSIS, I have started looking into this as it seems that quite powerful exes can be made that launch things in interesting ways, which would be useful for making things happen just the way I like. Any advice on NSIS and how StartPortableApps.exe works would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks Andrew

Here's my first release of RSSOwl Portable and also my first Summer Portables release.
It is available for download at the RSSOwl Portable page.
The launcher is released under the GPL and RSSOwl is licensed under the EPL (Eclipse Public License).
Also, I am fully aware that a RSSOwl Portable is already available, but I wanted to make my own, which is compatible with the PAF.
Thanks,
Ryan.
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I'm a pretty much noob to making portable apps, as well as coding/programming in general, but I seem to have grasped NSIS pretty well.

Besides that, I've been getting errors in Line 171 of the compiler using John's installer .nsi files as an example. In fact, I even tried the AbiWord installer file to see if it would work flawlessly. Well enough, the compiler hung with this error log:

IfFileExists: "$PROGRAMDIRECTORY\$PROGRAMEXECUTABLE" ? FoundProgramEXE :
MessageBox: 48: "$PROGRAMEXECUTABLE was not found. Please check your configuration"
Abort: ""

I just release ASuite 1.3.1 stable version. For who doesn't know it, ASuite is an application launcher (like famous PStart, but ASuite is opensource launcher ) for USB sticks, hard drives, iPods, etc...

Major changes:
- Added new launcher and software/group software options
- New variable
- Magnetic window (like winamp)
- New Options window
- Bugfix

Project page (on sourceforge)

Download

It says at the end...

!include: could not find: "Registry.nsh"
Error in script "C:/blahblahblah/AbiWordPortable.nsi" on line 58 -- aborting creation process

Help?

Hi All
Sorry if this should be somewhere else and I missed it. I have some thoughts or requests on this.

First, John's launcher is nice looking and fast! Thanks for your hard work on it!

Second, the beta fixes the dpi issues just fine, but when I use it on my tablet, the menu is partially off screen... I'm hoping the new version allows for some customization of size? My tablet is a Q1 and so the issue is its screen size (non-standard) and not the menu app itself.

Third, I read you will be able to choose which app exes you see, but I'm really hoping for shortcut support. Perfect example -I use a tiddlywiki as a task organizer I would love to run it with portable Firefox, but the only easy way to do this is with a shortcut or batch file, and the tiddlywiki file, being an html file, can not be put on the menu at all.

See, it's the school holidays and I have nothing to do!
I currently have two choices:

Installing plugins in Gaim Portable can be a pain. First you have to install a version of gaim (not a beta) onto a windows machine, then install the plugins, and then copy the plugins over to your portable version on your usb drive.