I have an application that I run from my flash drive. It was installed on the computer originally, but run independently without installing any reg settings or otherwise. All I have done at this point is copy it over to my flash drive, and I just open the folders and run the application from there. I would really like to put it on the Launcher but have some trouble. Most applications have the executable in the main folder, and as long as I rename the other .exe files like uninstall and such that are not necessary, it works great. I refresh the apps icons and it will show up on the launcher. I have done this with a lot of little tools that I use. Problem with this application, is that the main executable is in a subfolder, and cannot be moved out. I have tried re-directing it, but it keeps losing some or all functionality. I know that I can create an installer, but all I really need to do is find a way to make a link to the subfolder.
Portable apps have the executable file in the root app directory. (i.e. E:\PortableApps\Test\Application.exe)
The application I am working with is like "E:\PortableApps\Test\Folder\Patch\application.exe"
there are no application files in \Test, but are some in \Folder which I do not need to be on the launcher. It's just one executable in the \Patch folder that I need to have run.
I used to have a U3 drive and there was software that I used to create a shortcut and add it to the launcher. Basically I am looking for either something similar for portableapps, or a way to manually create a shortcut that will direct to the patcher that can be put in the "Test" folder and will point to the application file.
I have done some looking around, but can't find a shortcut creator for portableapps, and haven't been able to figure out how to do this manually.
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1. In the (near?) future, the PA.c menu will support custom paths to menu items, such as what you need. (I have a game on my USB drive that has the same need.)
2. There's a fork of an older version of the menu that can do this. Search for PAM R34 MOD (search for it), but be advised it isn't officially supported up here, and some (though not me) have reported errors with it. Also installing a newer version of the official menu over it will break it.
If you want to have your cake and eat it, too, install the old PAM 1.1, patch it with the MOD, and then go in and rename the directory (just append MOD to the name or something). Now install the latest version of the director from here and that will be your default menu, but the MOD menu will show up on the main menu. Since it's been 13-14 months since R34's released, I'm not sure it'll get updated.