[Outdated] PortableApps.com Platform 2.0 Beta 3 Testing

The only thing that's missing (for me, obviously) are Categories. Even rudimentary ones like Geek.menu would be wonderful!

Please consider this, and thanks for the great work on all of PortableApps!

I found another "dead spot" on the menu like the now-fixed backup button. The fourth app in the list won't highlight, respond to clicks, etc if you hover over the text. It works if you hover over the icon (so like the opposite of the hover button issue). I'm using beta 2.

Could you setup the eject button to automatically eject the USB drive? I have used another start menu for a little while and it's eject button does the process automatically without any intervention from me. There isn't much of a difference between the eject button in the menu and doing the process manually.

Hello There

Just downloaded your beta3 and updated my drive. apparently the new PA launcher doesn't recognise open office portable, its showing an error saying "[PAF Error - Missing Name]" next to the Open Office icons, i guess it could be due to the out of date Open Office Portable software that im going to update now, but i thought i should just make you aware of it.

also some of the icons appear to be missing, again this is probably due to out of date PA's

Regards

Koryo

After changing to a custom theme, the menu would automatically hide. Please change this.

I really like the new beta. Two things that I am missing are the use categories for apps and customization of the folder links (for example redirecting the music link to another folder). Will this be added in a future release or is this already possible in some way?

Arabic Language isnt working,, i guess its from the Decoding.
i can help with the translation if u want.

Uninstall on XP works, icons on the menu are refreshing, but drive space bar will show the old data until you hide/unhide the menu by clicking on the tasktray icon.

Sorry if my question seems obvious but I'm not that familiar with PortableApps interns.

When I start the install of the beta, it doesn't detect my previous installation and ask for a directory for the installation. I did install PortableApps on my hard disk, so I give the path where I installed everything :
"C:\Documents and Settings\sigbt06\Mes documents\PortableApps"

But it doesn't seems to detect the previous apps and I all I get is a new blank menu. Do I have to reinstall everything ? Should I give the path to the PortableAppsMenu application ?

From the documentation I can't find out, sorry for my ignorance.

Anybody knows ? Please help.

Thank you,

BT

My icons work again (I'm using a 720p TV as my monitor on the computer I use most) and everything seems to work. I'm looking forward to the updater being finished. I get tired of coming to the web site every couple of days to see if anything has been updated.

For me all the new features (while great) are useless with out the long promised "Categories" I must assume they have been abandoned since they are not even mentioned in official postings about this release.

I will stay with PortableApps Menu MOD 1.1 R30.

Paul

The Backup / Restore function from within the Menu does not work unless you tick the box "Show Details".

A found a typo in my translations here: https://portableapps.com/node/18730#comment-116736
It's corrected below:

COLOR_SILVER=Gümüş

I couldn't find in which page they were translated. "Uninstall" and "Transparency" strings, you see when you right-click an app in PA.c Platform menu, are translated below:

Uninstall = Kaldır
Transparency = Şeffaflık

And additional strings translated by Gotcik (https://portableapps.com/node/19987#comment-123273) was not correct. I've also translated them below:

INVALID_INSTALLER=Bu kurucu PortableApps.com biçiminde değilmiş gibi börünüyor. Taşınabilir uygulama değiştirilmiş olabilir veya tamamen taşınabilir olmayabilir ve bu dosyanın kaynağı doğrulanmadan kullanılmamalıdır. Kuruluma devam etmek istiyor musunuz?
CHECK_DRIVE=Sürücüyü Hatalar İçin Kontrol Et
CHECKING_DRIVE_WINDOW_TITLE=%DRIVE% sürücüsü hatalar için kontrol ediliyor...
AUTORUN_CHANGE_WARNING_TITLE=Uyarı: Otomatik Çalıştır Değiştirildi
AUTORUN_CHANGE_WARNING=PortableApps.com Platformu bu aygıtın otomatik çalıştırma yapılandırmasının değiştiğini algıladı. Bu değişiklikler bir virüs veya casus yazılım bulaşmasından veya autorun.inf dosyasını değiştiren başka bir uygulamadan kaynaklanıyor olabilir. Eğer değişikliği kendiniz yapmadıysanız, aygıtınızı virüs ve casus yazılımlar için taramalısınız.
APP_MENU_FAVORITE=Sık Kullanılan

I was unable to test keyboard hotkeys (e.g Alt+H for &Help). They're not working.

Best regards,
Thank you.

I tested and liked the features very much. Thank you.

But I do have a question. Does the portable apps menu resize itself to fit a smaller resolution? I am currently still using PAM 1.5.2 because whenever I load start the portableapps menu it takes up half the screen rather than just stay in the corner like the older version. and Also how do you update to version 2.0 without copying the folders to another location? Can I just install the new menu directly onto the existing flash drive?

I just wanna say that I got to look at this, and I'm liking it very much. Can I make a request that the favorites don't move? I kinda expect the "no new features" line, and that's fine, but I figured I'd ask. Thanks.

Will the Updater be offered as a stand-alone option also (once it is released)?
I would prefer not to use the whole PortableApps.com Platform, due to my USB drive configuration, but would like to benefit from auto-updating.

Yeah! I downloading this! Thanks!

I've tried, tested it against, the unofficial MOD's! Very nice, but on the mayor Portable HD, I'll keep the MOD until the Categories appear!

I have too much tools on this HD to use PAM without categories.

And please let us normally customize the folder links!

if you do something like this in the code

procedure TfrmMenu.imgButtonMusicForegroundClick(Sender: TObject);
var
iniSettingsFile: TINIFile;
begin
iniSettingsFile:=TINIFile.Create(ExtractFileDir(Application.ExeName) + '\Data\PortableAppsMenu.ini');
try
ShellExecute(0,'open', PAnsiChar(ExtractFileDir(ExtractFileDir(ExtractFileDir(Application.ExeName))) + iniSettingsFile.ReadString('Maps', 'MUSIC', '\Documents\Music\') +#0), Nil, Nil, SW_SHOW);
finally
iniSettingsFile.Free;
end;
end;

then we only have to edit the ini file like this

[Maps]
Documents=\User\Documents\
Pictures=\User\Pictures\
Videos=\User\Videos\
Music=\User\Music\

This is a quick and dirty solution.

Hi!
I've just tried this new version and was notified by flickering popup menus (options, or items right click). I'm sure it is because of transparency switch. Why not to turn transparency on only when more that 0% is selected?
Sorry for my english and thanks for things you doing!

Is it possible to add the UAC shield to the Run As Admin menu item (like you see when right-clicking a shortcut in Vista/7)?

I am loving the direction this suite is going I see that a lot of the options that were in geek.menu are now in this suite still would like to see an option to create sub-folders to place certain programs in for easy access like Games, Internet, Office etc...... I had tested version 1 of the 2.0 & it looks really good but needs a way to actually install new themes it just took it from the local file on my hard drive(windows 7 theme)but when I switched the themes the windows 7 was no longer an option. Also it needs a little more stability it would cause some of my apps to freeze & also won't release some apps like Firefox from my system ram I left it alone watching it in task manager to see if it closed it was on almost 24hrs. That is all I see so far I will need to update to version 3 to see if it has gotten any better.

I just installed beta 3 and I tried the uninstall option when right clicking on an app and it froze my computer for a few minutes then the uninstall screen just stayed even after the app was uninstalled also on that same note why not have the uninstall dialog box underneath the help tab since there is all that available space down there also you can place the progress bar there. I see a lot of options were from the geek.menu platform which I liked a lot before the project was abandoned I liked the search bar at the bottom of the geek.menu app also just a suggestion & there is no categories option or option to create categories & then placing the apps in those categories or can u do that from the .ini file & if so how. Also there is a long lag on the progress bar to refresh the apps menu. I used the install app option under the options tab & when I did there was a long lag to get the app to install & would be nice to see a confirmation window before you install it just automatically installs the app so it is really of no use & if so you might be able to centralize the install screen right under the help tab as well just a space saver a unique idea take it or leave it. The update option is gone also. I think that is about it will post again if I find anything else.

I just noticed every time I close the portable app menu & then relaunch it it always does a refresh of the app icons which lags for a few minutes also when portable app starts it lags for awhile maybe that is due to the rehashing of the apps icons or after an install of a new app. Also this issue has been going on since the release of 1.5.2 that when I disconnect my flash drive from the USB port and go to a different computer or back to my own it doesn't auto start the portable apps menu like it used to so was wondering about that also. All in all though I am liking this app kinda makes it better for me that I can use the original app than geek.menu even though I liked that more at the time and the options it had. Good job on the revamp of this suite I used to really hate the old original suite that is why I tried the geek.menu suite anyway good job can't wait for the final release.

I appreciate the work all you guys are doing, looks great so far. The only thing I can possibly think of wanting other than what you guys have already done is categories! Thanks again.

Hi!
This one's really good, keep doing that way
Just some things to the developers, since i'm using codyssey.com's CodySafe application launcher synchronously:

Hotkey
Alt-Win-SPACE is a good idea for showing the main window, but i would rather
like to set another one (or two):
On CodySafe i have Win-F4 for Exit Launcher and Win-X for Eject Drive!
Would a "custom HotKey(s)" option be possible/good?

AutoRun as Admin
What about combining the "Automatically Run App" CM Item with "Run As Adnmin"?
so PortableApps Launcher asks for the Admin Name(Yes, with WindowsNT's Gpedit.msc it IS possible to rename the Admin UserAccount to e.g. root like in Linux, my Admin is actually named that, btw, and the "guest" is named "nobody" ) and the password for all apps that are tagged ( AutoRun | AsAdmin)...

List View
CodySafe stores a "RunCount" Variable in each application's appinfo.ini, and sorts
the apps in a Most frequently used at top manner, allowing to switch between normal (All apps, except ones that have been tagged "hidden" by the user) and the MFU one. but the alphabetical view is also good,
thats what CodySafe won't do!

Thank you for reading, reply to this if you like!

Howdy John,
I've sent a fixed German locale to You a few days ago. Please use it for the next Beta please in order to fix the issue with the uninstall dialog.

I've changed the entry for the updater in the headline from Beta 3 to 4

There's some nice additions to this menu. A few things I'd like to see... not expecting them all to come in one version, but for future ideas:
- Allowing you to change the location that StartPortableApps.exe uses (I've set my directory to Software\PortableApps.com, so I have to use a batch file instead)
- Allowing you to change the location of the Documents, Pictures, etc. folders, possibly adding folders
- Adding themes to the theme list (extracting the patheme into its own folder in the Themes directory doesn't find them)
- Bottom app pinning like already suggested
- Rearranging of apps/folder categorization (also with an extra option to reset and sort alphabetically)
- The platform, backup, and restore all show up in the menu... not sure if this is supposed to happen, but I'd prefer not to have to hide them (since the backup/restore is on the right, and you don't want to launch the platform from the platform)
- Name aliases for apps (for example, I could make "Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition" show up as just "Firefox")

Again, not really all for the next version, but some ideas in the general scope of things.

Any possibility to add a button that allows custom command line parameters?

How can I install this new PAM onto a flash drive with an existing PAM without copying out all the Portable apps?

And why is the menu about 4 times bigger than the PAM 1.5.2? Is there anyway I can change it?

it's verry fun xD
y have the firts version but is red and y hate red xD

Just installed Beta 3 - fantastic work, well done John and team
Every works well, only niggle I have is that if you scroll down your list of apps and fire one up, when you go back to the menu later, it remembers where you were in the list rather than resetting back to the top - a bit of a pain if you want one of your favourites that you have pinned to the top. Can you get it to always default back to the top of the menu? Guess it won't be as much of an issue once categories are built in, so there will be less on the menu screen!

Can't wait for Beta 4 with the Updater - have the beta version of that installed and it's really really useful!

Is there an estimated "ship date" on that beta4?
I can't seem to get the old updater to work anymore - is there an alternative for me?

and does the updater automatically update things like virus defs for clamwin? now THAT would be useful!

I see that you've mentioned that the app switcher will be improved in future releases. Just thought I'd mention that it would make sense for custom themes to get installed to \PortableApps\PortableApps.com\Data\something in keeping with the spec on settings, plugins, themes, etc. You could just copy the .patheme files there and then use the current method of just extracting them when they are selected.

First off, let me say that I'm not entirely sure this is because of the beta release, but I am posting here because I am using it.

When closing the menu I follow this route:
Close programs open from menu
close menu
safely remove...

However, I get the still in use error almost every time...
Even when NOTHING is running from it

Could it be related to the beta???

The Korean language items show up as correct Hangul. I get instead gibberish characters.

If it's a translation problem, let me know and I'll help.

Beta 2 #1 and just tested and confirmed with #3.

Run portable apps menu, and my XP desktop loses all icons.
Close portable apps menu and they reappear.

Hard restart does not clear problem.

This problem did not start when I first started using Beta 2 #1, it just started 1 day. I am on an XP Pro machine, logged into a company domain network.

Have not pursued a work around - obvious 'click show desktop icon on taskbar' does not work.

Thanks, I absolutely love portable apps, and just close the menu after I run Thunderbird for the time being.