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Help Compiling Greenfish Icon Editor in Lazarus

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Submitted by John T. Haller on July 7, 2013 - 2:47pm

I took a stab at compiling the new Greenfish Icon Editor Pro, which is now open source, in Lazarus IDE and it fails, unable to find a component called gfComp. Google and the Lazarus website are no help finding it. The source files will be downloadable here within about 10 minutes or so.

WorkingDirectory in Stickies Portable

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Submitted by PortableApps Việt on July 6, 2013 - 8:58am

Hi,

I used Stickies Portable and I have a question. StickiesPortable.ini file (App\AppInfo\Launcher) has command

[Launch]
WorkingDirectory=%PAL:DataDir%
DirectoryMoveOK=yes

And I test by remove WorkingDirectory=%PAL:DataDir% command then pack it by PortableApps.comLauncher again. As a result it leaves "stickies" folder in %Appdata%.

So I wonder which type of software can use command WorkingDirectory in [Launch]? I try some software but it can't work as Stickies Portable.

Environment variables for Program Files Directory

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Submitted by PortableApps Việt on July 5, 2013 - 11:23pm

Hello!

I read manuals at https://portableapps.com/manuals/PortableApps.comLauncher/ref/envsub.html but it doesn't have environment variable for Program Files Directory? In NSIS has many environments such as $PROGRAMFILES, $DESKTOP...why PortableApps.com doesn't make own the same environment?

I make Dropbox Portable but it have Dropbox folder in Program Files. And I want to use DirectoryMoveOk in [Launch] to move it.

Anyone help me! Thank you very much!

Portable Minecraft

Submitted by internetasian on June 28, 2013 - 3:16am

I can make a portable Minecraft launcher.
It can launch your Minecraft game straight from your flash drive.

I can teach you how to make it, right here on this spot.

*Note that this is for Microsoft Windows, not Mac!*

Make a new folder. Rename it anything you want.

On the inside of the new folder, make two more folders.
One should be called "bin", and the other called "data".
Obviously, remove the quotation marks.

Then make a new .txt file.
Open the .txt file and type this in:

SET APPDATA=%CD%\data
bin\minecraft.exe

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