The Portable Freeware Collection Forums

Try contacting the developer directly, he's very friendly. :) Thanks, I missed that email at first. I'll await his response *edit: hmm, odd - marc ochsenmeier's comment didn't show up when I posted this, but the timestamp says differently? Maybe the post had to be moderator-approved since it was hi...

This is a nice little gem! I restored some taskbar real-estate by using this. The nice thing is it doesn't have to be running in the background and taking up system resources. The program saves settings and icons to its own folder. I noticed the 'GExperts' key too, but its an empty key and nothing e...

This is the only program I've run on my O/S (Win 7 x64) that's consistently failed to work. And I've tried like 10 different versions! I also tried different VC++ 2008 runtimes, but it didn't help. I figure there's got to be more people other than me experiencing this problem?! anyway, here's what I...

I was surprised this wasn't in the database already, as I've had it installed for a while and just thought to look for updates now: With GameSave Manager, you can easily backup, restore and transfer your gamesave(s). No longer do you need to manually track through all of the those different director...

Project Description Path Length Checker is a stand-alone app that allows you to specify a root directory, and it gives you back a list of all paths (i.e. files and directories) in that root directory and their lengths. It includes features such as pattern matching and min/max length constraints, as...

I thought you would have been a power user of Powershell! :mrgreen: I must admit it was a comment in passing without much thought, though you can get away with saying things like this on TPFC! I'd love to recommend a script language, but I always find problems with them. I wrote a few VBScript wrap...

Have you thought about using Powershell? I was curious about Powershell myself for all of, hmm, 10 minutes.. hehe. :P The extraordinary effort it takes just to run a .ps1 file is absurd. You need to change the execution policy (otherwise you get errors like "File C:\scripts\test.ps1 cannot be ...

Please note that even though Bandizip writes its settings to its own app folder, version 2.01 build 7558 managed to add a whole bunch of compression formats to my registry automatically on first run, without actually associating them, even though I had not used Bandizip's associations option at all...

The C99 sources they are talking about - at least my interpreation of it - is what's used to build the Prolog environment (portably) on other systems. However, I was wrong about compilation.. there is ' GNU Prolog ' compiler. But y'know.. looking briefly over the language, it doesn't look like it in...

Midas, I don't believe Prolog compiles to native executable.. In the meantime, I've put up two other FreeBASIC examples on PasteBin just to see if it tickles anyones fancy: Registry Query Empty Key Example RunWait Example and the two prior examples: Get Executable Filename ShellExWait Example All th...

Check out API Guard @ http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=1150. It's 32-bit only, and I couldn't tell you if its successful with all applications. I assume you'll have to run it elevated to 'sandbox' elevated programs.

tproli, The thing you have to realize is.. well, these are 'Basic' programming languages hehe. They are retaining compatibility with a language as old as DOS* (and still maintaining support for it!), which itself never had unicode support. And most of the Basic variants out there support Linux, whic...

So, I messed about with FBX a bit.. apparently theres a '-u' option on the command-line that sets 'unicode output'.. however, the code that's generated is anything but! The only difference on the output is there's the '#define UNICODE' stuff.. which makes it impossible to compile properly because ch...

tproli, Well the main reason I encouraged you to use FreeBASIC, besides the extras, was wide string (unicode) support. If you ignore unicode in windows, you're leaving out support for any foreign characters or languages. And choosing to live in the dark ages, basically. When I looked at BCX last it ...

Here's a way to run a batch file hidden (in FreeBASIC) and wait for it to exit: #define _UNICODE 1 #define UNICODE 1 #include "windows.bi" #include "win\shellapi.bi" #include "win\objbase.bi" '' The easy way (can't wait for termination though): ''ShellExecute(0,"&q...