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Portable App Development

Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

Portable Apps Launcher Closing Immediately

Submitted by Gamemaster77 on February 13, 2013 - 12:38am

So I've been trying to make a portable copy of CivilizationIII so I can run it off of the network drive at school. I've already figured out what registry keys it needs to run, but I'm ignoring them for now anyways. Right now, the game is just staying in the same directory, not changing any keys.

Temporary internet files and Inkscape (development version)

Submitted by Leon B on February 4, 2013 - 7:59am

Hello!

I tried to make the current Inkscape development version portable which worked pretty good except of one thing: It seems that Inkscape is creating a folder in Temporary Internet Files for some icons (e.g. Temporary Internet Files\inkscape\icons\16x16\bitmap-trace.png).
Does someone of you have an Idea if there is a possibility to handle this folder?

Regards,
Leon

Native JDK app support

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Submitted by darksabre76 on February 1, 2013 - 9:24pm

Hey everyone. In my quest to work on my own app, I did some changes to the Launcher that I'd like to share. Head over to the SourceForge folder I put my changes in. The readme file there explains the changes I made and what files they affect. I hope this gets the launcher one step closer to being ready for when the OpenJDK becomes official. Thanks again gluxon for the work in packaging the OpenJDK.

Wait for EXE issue

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Submitted by darksabre76 on February 1, 2013 - 11:02am

In my version of MiKTeX Portable I am running into a problem that I thought I had fixed already. When the program is run it opens the MiKTeX tray icon which is not actually the process that is launched originally. Instead, it leaves a process running called "miktex-taskbar-icon.tmp". Until recently, I had no problems with it, so I assumed it was correctly handling this process. On the most recent Dev Test, I put in some configuration file moving which a user pointed out to me isn't working properly.

Alteration of a *.txt file

Submitted by tapsklaps on January 31, 2013 - 5:36pm

Suppose I have a *.txt file, in which I want to alter a value in a special line. This *.txt file may look as follows:

line 1: any entry
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line n: [sectionname]
line n+1: value
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Of course, the terms line 1, line 2, ... does not really appear in the *.txt, but only in the editor. My question is now, how can I change the value in line n+1? Has anyone an idea?

Help to convert uGet Portable to PAFF?

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Submitted by RottNKorpse on January 30, 2013 - 7:45pm

First of all, I'm a designer not a developer so this may just be a waste of time if the conversion isn't simple.

I am wanting to package the uGet Portable app into a PortableApps.com compatible format.

uGet Portable is actually a .ZIP that contains all of the dependencies and such but it is not in any particular portable format.

uGet is written in C and utilizes GTK+ runtime. Of course, Windows doesn't come with GTK+ so the portable app has it included in the zip.

To launch the portable app you extract the zip, open the "bin" folder and run the file "uget.exe".

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