Submit portable freeware that you find here. It helps if you include information like description, extraction instruction, Unicode support, whether it writes to the registry, and so on.
hamasaki wrote: ↑Tue Jan 04, 2022 8:59 am
Seems a lot of the apps on this site don't get updated anymore though.
I was a little worried about that -- one of the reason I didn't embrace a lot of Portapps software. The project appears to do monthly batch updates, which isn't necessarily a problem unless a major software vulnerability comes out for a given program.
I was a little worried about that -- one of the reason I didn't embrace a lot of Portapps software. The project appears to do monthly batch updates, which isn't necessarily a problem unless a major software vulnerability comes out for a given program.
True. Some of the apps haven't been updated for ages, for some reason. Database beaver for example is showing as version 21.0.5, last updated 22/05/2021. It's had loads of updates since then and is now at 21.3.2. I did contact the guy, but he never responded. Easier to just download the portable version from their site. So, it seems that portapps.io is almost abandoned. Plus many of the apps aren't stealth, they write log folders to the appData folder.
This program saved my bacon this week multiple times on trying to get someone to explain a complex process to me. Easy to use, simple, and very intuitive. That it's open source and looks like Visio saved a lot of confusion and frustration. Definitely an addition to the flowchart list and the inspiration behind the SVG format thread.
Best features
I was particularly impressed by how they shared their keyboard shortcuts as an SVG file rather than a PDF. https://app.diagrams.net/shortcuts.svg - I've got to start doing that. Best of all, the howto was created using the program AND it's an editable file in the software. Now that's transparency in development.
Create a bunch of objects by creating one, holding CTRL and then click+drag
Press Tab to jump between objects and press Enter to start adding a label
If the boxes are close enough together, just hovering over the box and clicking one of the blue arrows that appears should make them connect (similar to Visio)
If the above step doesn't work or one of the arrows needs to connect without being adjacent, hover over the edge of each box until you see a small green circle, hold Shift, and drag an arrow to the next box. This was not obvious until after a lot of work with the program.
At this stage, it probably looks messy. Select some or all and choose from the menu Arrange - Layout - Horizontal Tree or whatever structure makes sense
Wishlist
When you click an arrow (with no adjacent box as described above) it prompts you with what box you'd like and puts a "both ways" arrow between them. During brainstorming efforts, this seemed to get in the way. I wish there was an option to to just mimic the same box with an arrow.
Could use another dark mode with a little higher contrast
Great news. It's the closest I've come to an OSS Visio replacement, going much further than Dia, LibreOffice Draw, and a few other tools attempted over time.
