PortableApps.com is proud to announce that PortableApps.com Installer 3.0.12 has been released. The PortableApps.com Installer allows you to quickly package your portable apps in an easy-to-use installer without having to write or compile any code. This release works around an NSIS bug preventing free disk space calculations on UNC paths and updates locales. All publishers should update to this new release. The PortableApps.com Format Specification and installer are available for outside developers to use and can be used freely with free open source and freeware applications. Commercial use is available by contacting PortableApps.com.
Update automatically or install from the portable app store in the PortableApps.com Platform.
Features
The PortableApps.com Installer allows you to easily package your portable apps. It features:
- Proven NSIS installer core
- Excellent compression for distribution
- Easy configuration with no coding required
- Multilingual with 71 Languages
- Optional sections
- Automatic integration with the PortableApps.com Platform
- Works from command line and Send To (just pass the portable app's main directory, e.g. X:\PortableApps\FileZillaPortable)
- Interactive mode to assist with missing entries
- Licensed for use with free open source and freeware
- Commercial use by contacting PortableApps.com
The PortableApps.com Installer allows software publishers to package their apps using our popular tools. Open source projects can use our installer (and all source is included and licensed under the GPL) and release their own PAF files. Freeware publishers can also use our installer with no special permission needed for no charge. Commercial publishers can contact us for details.
Get Help Packaging for PortableApps.com
If you need help packaging your software in PortableApps.com Format or using the PortableApps.com Installer, just post a note to the Development Forum and we'll help you out.
PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format
PortableApps.com Installer is packaged, appropriately, as a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Platform including the Menu and Backup Utility.
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The PortableApps.com Installer is available for immediate download from the PortableApps.com Installer homepage. Get it today!
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Comments
Close apps on platform exit doesn't work
When closing the PortableApps app with apps open, it still gives me a pop-up informing me to manually close the apps.
What does the "close apps on platform exit" option do, exactly? In what circumstances does it work?
Wrong Thread
This is a news announcement for the PA.c Installer. It has nothing to do with the platform.
Close apps only does it properly by sending a WM_CLOSE message. If an app can't be closed properly, the platform will let you know. That's the purpose of that window. Apps that run from the system tray like PicPick, Ditto, and others have no active window and do not support external closing. We'll be adding custom support for apps that run in the background with no window and support an outside call to close them (usually something like run appname.exe /QUIT or similar) but some apps like PicPick and Ditto don't support that either. The only way to close them is to kill the process which may cause data loss as anything active in the app that hasn't been saved to disk will be lost. Many 3rd party eject utilities operate by simply killing apps regardless of data loss. If you have other questions or any followups to this, please post in the PortableApps.com Platform forum.