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Can I hack PAM to look for Portable Apps in more than one location?

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ak.h
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Can I hack PAM to look for Portable Apps in more than one location?

I have installed bblean on my flash drive and currently have it auto starting w/ PAM 2.x beta. This is nice and all however my version of bblean has been combined w/ several other shell replacements. One of the shell replacements (cameo) incorporates some portable apps however those need to be installed in the root of the bblean folder which as of now is in the portable apps folder. (e.g. \PortableApps\bbLean)

Is there a way to hack or modify PAM 2.x Beta to not only look in the portable apps folder (\PortableApps\bbLean) but also the bblean (\PortableApps\bbLean\apps)folder?
This way I can still auto start bblean with PAM but it can then also see the apps installed in the bblean folder.

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You can probably use the

You can probably use the method described in this post: https://portableapps.com/node/20498
You would then make a structure like

X:/
  PortableApps/
    bblean/
      App/
        Appinfo/
          appinfo.ini
      apps/
        app1/
          app1exe.exe
          ...
        ...

And in appinfo.ini you would then do Start1=apps/app1/app1exe.exe

I'm aware that this is a less-than-ideal solution as it requires you to manually add each app, but its the best/only way to do this.

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ak.h
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It may be a less-than-ideal

It may be a less-than-ideal solution but it does exactly what I want. And, believe it or not this is a better solution then the one I though I would have to be using. Which was create a batch script for each application and start them from inside the shell.

Thanks!

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Different Menu

In this case, I'd recommend switching to a different menu. The PAM was mainly designed for 'end users' (essentially those who've never even heard of OpenOffice), so it's probably not your ideal solution. I would suggest a more powerful menu for your purpose, for example one of the many menu mods, PStart, or ASuite.

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