Thank you for your support. Normally someone of the PortableApps.com community will take on the portabilization of open-source or freeware applications if the original developer or development team does not have one currently available. The post can be found here: http://portableapps.com/node/21664 So far there is limited feedback on this application. If no one claims it, then I will try to do so.

PortableApps.com has opened up to freeware applications as well. They have produced a standardized format for portable application structure that mimics much of the Windows structure. For that reason, I wondered if it was possible to make Jabaco into a portable application. This would enable me to teach my students with a programming IDE that they can take home with them and work on in class.

The primary problem is that the program does not recognize the dependencies are located in the local folder on the pen drive. I had installed the software on the computer, copied that installation to the pen drive (from Program Files), then added the system files that are installed from the win32 installer (using uniextract) to the same folder. I ran the uninstaller to clean out the system from the Jabaco installer, but my pen drive contents would not run either the Jabaco.exe or Jabaco.jar. I e...

While there is one thread in German regarding a portable version of Jabaco, can the Jabaco software be made portable? PortableApps.com has a portable Java installation that could be used by Jabaco. My initial attempts to make it portable did not work. I would like a portable version so I could program my small projects at work and home as well as make it available for my students to learn a VB6 programming language that they could take home on their pen drives. Thanks for the great program and t...