Portable App Development

I've just finished working on a portable Scribus. Modified from a portable scribus here: http://www.winpenpack.com/ (modifed for smaller size, added GS fonts, etc.)

I posted about it here:
http://www.quate.net/newsnet/read.php?id=31

I've gotten Photoshop to work when using UPX, but it always messes up ImageReady, and then ImageReady won't launch, do you know what I'm doing wrong?

-pyoung09259

If you make a non-open source application, auto-launchable, are you violating the copy right law?

Hi, What happnes if you try to make MS office portable?? I mean just launch it automatically.

I have released Portable Psi with the help of Deuce!! Psi is an excellent Jabber client.

http://www.portasoft.org/e107/page.php?17

-Justin

I'm having a problem getting my application to load. This is most likely my lack of understanding of how the "chrome://" works. I have set up a simple XUL file to act as my application. It is the find file example from the XUL tutorial. Below is the directory structure I'm using:

F:\PortableApps\XULApps
\XULRunner
\CARS (My App)
Start.BAT (used for starting the application)
Application.ini
\Chrome
chrome.manifest (which is empty)
\CARS
Appstart.xul (the application)
\defaults
\preferences
prefs.js (which has the following line (pref("toolkit.defaultChromeURI", "chrome://chrome/cars/AppStart.xul");)

Description A launcher, based on a bit of John's code and mostly mine, to launch any program, provided you need command lines. I made this so everyone doesn't have to make a new launcher for every program. Also includes Reg Rapper 1.0
Download Link http://www.portasoft.org/e107/download.php?view.10

I know we already have Portable Firefox, so my idea may seem stupid, but hear me out. One of the features I saw requested for PFF was native support for multiple profiles. So, I'm thinking of answering that request by writing a brand-new launcher that allows the user to select a profile on startup. As many profiles as necessarily can be created, and they'd be stored as subdirectories of the PFF profiles directory (or whatever my equivalent was).

I'll probably make this one way or the other, but I'd like to know if anyone would be interested in it. It would be completely open-source, just like John's launcher.

I created a PuTTY plugin for one of my BartPE CDs and just tested it to work as a great portable app as well. PuTTY is the best SSH shell for Windows and my scripts basically let you load your personalized settings into the registry, run your session, save any setting changes you made and then delete all PuTTY settings from the host computer when you close PuTTY. It also lets you login with a predefined private-key file so you're not transmitting your password in clear-text either.

It can work from a read-only disk as well as a USB key. Its most secure on a ramdisk-based OS environment (BartPE CD) because none of your session will ever even touch magnetic platter. But it does delete all trace of its use on any Windows system.

I´m testing Portable Sandboxie. My idea is use this soft to safely use USB on any computer without making modification to host computer.
www.sandboxie.com and download the file.
My Batch files wich run browser in sandboxed
The idea is starting PSTart so any app runned by this menu, is sandboxed.
Is a very primitive idea of implementing...but it works.
Try and tell me opinions

start.cmd
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regedit /s Sanboxie+.reg
copy Sandboxie.ini %SystemRoot%\
sandboxieinstall.exe /install /S /D=C:\temp
sc.exe create Sandbox binpath= C:\temp\Sandbox.sys type= kernel start= auto error= normal DisplayName= Sandbox