The Best Program For Making Portable Apps?

[DasFox]

For ease of use, simplicity and fool proof, that does a perfect job or as close to perfect as possible, what application out there is the best for making portable applications?

Thinapp and Xenocode I don't like because of the stupid window popup when you start an application, showing it's a licensed version with the app name, so I don't care to bother with either of these.

THANKS

P.S. Does anyone know if there is a way to disable the popup in Thinapp when you start an application, like in this image below?

http://virtualfuture.info/wp-c.../06/thinaaplaunch1.jpg

 

[Net]

visual basic 6

 

[Markbnj]

You will probably do better with this in the Programming forum. Visual Basic 6 does not create portable applications if your definition of "portable" means "cross-platform." There are ways to run Windows apps on Linux, for example, but I doubt that is what you're after. Java is the standard answer, and works pretty well for most applications these days.

 

[Net]

i figured you meant stand-alone .exe's

if you want portable applications then use RealBasic

it will let you compile it as a linux, windows, mac, etc... program

 

[Red Squirrel]

Dev C++ seems to do well for portability. Of course your code has an impact as well, lot of stuff that works in windows wont work in linux and vise versa. When making something cross platform you're better off doing small bits at a time and compiling in both as you go along.

 

[DasFox]

This isn't about programming, I'm talking about Windows applications like Thininstall, Thinapp, xenocode, etc., all of these which are proprietary, but there are other Windows apps as well for making portable applications...

Anyone?

 

[vailr]

"Portable" usually means a program that can run directly & uninstalled, from a USB thumb drive.
There exist portable versions of Firefox and Opera web browsers, for example.
Then there are "U3" USB drives, that include a pre-installed launch menu.

 

[DasFox]

Originally posted by: vailr
"Portable" usually means a program that can run directly & uninstalled, from a USB thumb drive.
There exist portable versions of Firefox and Opera web browsers, for example.
Then there are "U3" USB drives, that include a pre-installed launch menu.

Who said we needed a lesson? LOL... 🙂

I just wanted to know who made the best application for making portable apps?