Portable App Development

Some apps' launchers (e.g GnuCash) take a long time to tidy up after their app has closed so it would be nice to have the option for a splash screen to show so that one knows when the app is completedly finished.

I am trying to make the above software into a portable version (http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-YouTube-to-MP3-Converter.htm). However I am not to sure what to do after steps 11 in the tutorial https://portableapps.com/node/14868
Can anyone tell me what I should be doing here. I have all the recommended software but I seemed to have hit a snag.

Hello all,

I have modded the platform executable to allow for sorting the favorites. All you have to do is modify the ini file to provide a numeric rank to your favorites entries. The higher the number the higher the position. If the rank is the same, then they are sorted alphabetically.

It also works out that if you give a negative number to a favorites entry, then it will still show up unbolded like the normal apps, and at the bottom of the list. If you don't manually modify the ini, all other functionality is exactly the same as before.

Dear PortableApps.com Dev's,

I have had a good look at GoldenDict (http://goldendict.org/) It's probably the best freeware (or opensource) dictionary app available. IMHO it is crying out for a launcher. It is inherently portable, just requiring a directory named "portable" in the main GoldenDict directory (see the FAQ).

I have had a good look at StarDict, as well as a few others. GoldenDict has an excellent GUI, and can manage a wide range of dictionary formats, including Babylon and StarDict.

PortableApps.com really needs a good dictionary app. This looks very good to me.

I really like the new theming system, but I haven't seen a full explanation of it. Here's what I can deduce from experimentation. Hopefully this will be of use to other themers.
Please let me know if I got anything wrong.
This information is the best I can figure out from version 2.0b5, but I can't guarantee that it will stay entirely the same for future betas.

The Platform/Menu has both Built-in themes, and the ability to install Custom themes.
The Built-in themes are not really intended for editing.
Custom themes can only be installed one at a time.

Hello everybody,

I recently installed and tested the USBTex portable Latex environment and I have to say it's really great (http://goo.gl/7pd5). The only thing that's lacking for this to be able to appear inside the PortableApps 'Launcher' is an '.exe' file than can bundle three '.bat' files together.
Right now to launch the tex editor of USBTex you have to follow three steps:

1.- Run 'demarrer.bat
2.- When the above is finished (although I think it's not mandatory to wait until it's finished), run 'texmaker.bat'
3.- After you are done using the editor, run 'arreter.bat'

I've been working on a launcher for Dropbox and I think I'm running into an issue with the installer. I've been able to download and extract folders using installer.ini, but I have to do some post install code to clean everything up. The issue I'm having is that when the file is extracted the folders have system variable names so I'm thinking I won't be able to rename things properly. Can somebody take a look at what I've got and let me know if this will work or not.

!macro CustomCodePostInstall

I'm working on converting Hedgewars Portable from a custom installer script to a PortableApps.com Launcher, but I'm having trouble with WorkingDirectory.

If I create a launcher that runs the hedgewars.exe, I get the following error from Hedgewars:

Failed to open data directory:
C:/Documents and Settings/user/Desktop/HedgewarsPortable/hedgewars/Data
Please check your installation

Now, the data directory is actual located in:

How do I properly use the [FileWriteN] function?
I can't seem to figure it out, not even after reading the manual's page on it.
PLEASE HELP ME!

I've been working on an installer and I keep running into a problem. An additional file needs to be downloaded in order for the program to work properly. The file downloads fine, but upon extraction, installation fails with the following:

ERROR: (d3dx9_42.zip > App\VBA-M)

Any ideas?