PortableApps.com Platform 1.6 Beta 2 Quick Test Needed (2010-01-27)

Help | About displays "Windows Vista 6.0 Build 7600" when I am running Windows 7 (version 6.1 Build 7600)

Many thanks for the updated version!

Installing over the previous public Beta (2.0 beta 3 I believe?) nuked all custom settings (favourites, single icon for multiple part apps such as open office, manually hidden icons etc). If this is a necessity (if it was the only way to disable theming for now) then it should probably be in the release notes, or fixed for later releases if not. Seems to run well once reconfigured though.

The version (2.0 Beta 3) run up to now quite really well with me, has found up to now no mistakes, however, extend would not be bad;-)

I have done sometimes screen from version 2.0 beta 3. Will still test, however, 1.6 beta!

http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/8876/screamdad.png

Catalan language switching is fixed but Bulgarian still seems to be broken?

Upgraded over 2.0b3. Tested with Notepad++.

cause i need the favorites and the themes.
I'll hope this features are included in the next version.

Hi,

I'm Sorry my poor English.

I found a bug with the "Install a New App" Window, the steps are:

1. Open PortableApps.com Menu.
2. Click "Options" Button.
3. Select "Install a New App" Option.
4. When the "Install a New App" appears click im another windows, the PortableApps.com Menu and the select file windows hide.
5. Then click in the PortableApps.com Menu Tray Icon, the windows appears and hide, this don't let close de select file windows.

Thanks.

Can we have an option to hide the superbar icon? I understand why it was implemented, but it's not that hard for me to drag the tray icon out of the overflow (Win7 supports drag and drop in the tray) and once I do the superbar icon is redundant. At the very least if you're going to leave the superbar icon, then hide the tray icon on Win7. It's a waste of space to have two icons that do the same thing.

Also, perhaps select the entire Rename edit field when the rename box is opened, just like every other program's Rename works? It's annoying to have to select the field manually every time I go to rename something.

Anybody else getting:

"The version of this file is not compatible with the version of WIndows you're running. Check your computer's system information to see whether you need an x(86) or x64 version of the program, and then contact the software publisher."

I'd previously installed the 2.0 Betas on Windows XP. I've tried now on two Windows 7 machines and get this result. Both are x64. This happens for 2.0 Betas and the 1.6 beta. I can install 1.5 on these machines though.

I am doing extreme testing on Portableapps Platform 1.6 Beta 1 and I am posting every single result.

Opening PAP brings the menu up.
Clicking on anywhere else besides the menu results the bar to show up on the bottom left.
Clicking the PAP System tray Icon twice and one will reopen the menu over and over.

Commands:
Run: Runs the application
Run as Administrator: Runs with extra box (To protect the computer)
Rename: Renames the Application
Rename (delete everything in the box): Puts the name back to original
Refresh: Refreshes the Menu
Hide: Hides the Application like normal.
Show Hidden Items: Refreshes the Menu and shows hidden items.
Favorite: Brings the app above the line on top of the menu
Favorite (Removal): Removes the item from top of the list
Start Automatically: Starts the item automatically
Uninstall: Uninstalls the Item and refreshes

Menu:
Posting Personal Picture works
Right clicking Personal Picture get's rid of it
Minimizing Movement Recognition works (Moving the menu, minimizing, and reopen)
Closing and Opening Movement Recognition Glitches up and moves it randomly directly above the taskbar
F5 refreshes the menu
Eject and the close button works fine
Renaming the Drive and saves

Side Icons:
Documents, Music, Pictures, Video, Explore Opens up the explorer into their location
Backup and restoring Works like normal

Options:
Small Font and Large Font Changes the font size
Installing App Opens the .paf.exe to install
Refresh App Icons works Refreshes the menu
Get more Apps opens the Application page correctly
Hides Desktop Icons like normal
Transparency 10% - 90% works perfectly
Check drive for errors works as normal
Search Drive, Computer, and web works normally
Help Support and update works fine
Help About works fine

Languages:
All Languages work (Note: I do not have the language packs installed so I couldn't see the Symbols EX: Japanese doesn't show the hiragana,katakana, and kanji.

tl;dr version:
Everything works but a few things can be aggravating. The PAP bar and reopening constantly with clicking on the Systrey icon.
Moving the Menu, closing, and opening again glitches up and moves directly above the taskbar.
Some Languages could not be confirmed by me as I do not have the language packs installed.
Everything else works.

I like the eject, but I don't like the superbutton over the start button, and I think that there is no problem with the systray, because you can configure it to be always shown if want that.

However is a very good release, I'm waiting for the update that in 2.0 can automatically be ejected by the program

Is this an option, which can be disabled? I use Windows 7 and can think of no good reason why I'd want a PortableApps icon on the taskbar. Having it in the system tray works just fine for me.

Regards

Nick

works quick and perfect for me with:
Win XP SP3
Vista Home Premium and Business 32bit
Win 7 Home Premium (32 and 64bit)

Is there a chance for the updater in the next 2 Beta 3.1?

Win + Alt + Space no longer works. Nor does Win + P.

I also dislike the box above the start button. I always use the keyboard shortcut or (rarely) the system tray button. I understand that it is useful to some, so there should be an option.

I'll skip this release. It seems a small step back from 2.0 B3 (I use a nice skin, thank you). I guess I have to wait longer.

I am testing this version on Windows 7 and it works great.

I immediately fell in love with the new eject function. And the taskbar integration works great.

I only wish it would autostart in Win7 as it did in Vista/XP.

Wait, I'm confused as to why the Fade Menu option was disabled? I loved it
It was what made PortableApps.com separate from other menus.

You mentioned that it was removed to one of the additions below. What additions?

...what has it been since the last beta?

I've found now that it helps running Wine via bash. That way you get stdout and stderr.

• Check drive for errors produces no crash, which is good, but just
  

  Checking Drive (Z:) for errors...
  
  File not found
  
  
  Press Return key to continue: 

• Whenever the menu is shown or hidden, you get
  

  fixme:x11drv:sync_window_opacity LWA_COLORKEY not supported

  This I presume is the issue bound up with the transparency of the magenta and thus their fault... and you even went and made square corners for Wine

• I found one real issue though. When you choose "Get more apps...", it fails to open the web browser (I would expect it to open iexplore.exe which is a phoney WebKit thing).
  

  err:winebrowser:get_url_from_dde Unable to retrieve URL from string L"\""
  err:winebrowser:wmain Usage: winebrowser URL
  

• "Eject" doesn't crash the thing. There is no message other than the UnregisterHotKey stub message: very good (oh, but it doesn't eject the disk :P)
• On startup and shutdown, the Win+Alt+Space shortcut isn't registered, but that's Wine's fault:
  

  fixme:keyboard:RegisterHotKey (0x10040,0,0x00000009,32): stub
  fixme:keyboard:UnregisterHotKey (0x20042,0): stub

All round, it seems to me that it works well in Wine

(This is still on beta 1 - have installed beta 2 but won't get to try it on the W7 machine until this evening.)

The new eject function still doesn't work for me with Windows 7 - it just shuts down the PortableApps menu but doesn't eject the drive. (Works fine on XP so I can see how it's supposed to work.)

This didn't work in 2.0 beta 3 either. In that case it fired up an eject dialogue which, when I tried to eject the drive, told me it was a fixed drive and couldn't be ejected.

But it's a standard USB key - nothing unusual - and when I use the standard Windows system tray "Safely Remove Hardware" I can eject it with no problem.

Looks like it still calls up the wrong function in W7.

Regards

Nick

...I installed 1.6B2 right now. The minimize issue is solved! No other problems found so far... All light are green!

WinXP Home SP3

Minimize problem is fixed. Bulgarian language environment variables still returning English values.

XP SP2 admin

I've found that I can deal with the taskbar icon under Win7 (it's a much larger click target than the tray icon), but my main gripe with it is that it's never in the same spot depending on which machine I happen to be using at the time, as each has different pinned icons.

So my question is: Would it be possible to programmatically move the PortableApps icon to the left side of the taskbar, this way it's always directly to the right of the Start orb and thus in a consistent location?

The new launcher icon is really unnecessary if you have the status bar Icon then I really didn't even know it was there till it just caught my eye it seems sort of like the U3 start menu icon but is slow. The speed of the suit is faster but has slow hashing when starting or when u hit refresh. other than that it is looking good keep up the good work & thanks for all that u are doing for us and keeping us portable keep cool and watch out for the swine flu again its coming around in full force.

Good work! 1.6b2 installed fine on top of my previous 1.5.2.
Now anxiously awaiting the Updater functionality. Will it be able to update my VLC installation by itself? Just the other day my machine crashed on a .ogg movie, but it was really just VLC that needed to get updated. Updating software manually feels so last century. Actually I'd happily pay for the updater functionality (feel free to remind me when the updater is out there and working

Next in wish list would be a "software repository" that makes it easy to install/remove apps that area listed on portableapps.com. This project could be started as a stand-alone application that could be called from the portaleApps executable. (via "Shell()" or its Delphi equivalent). Having a software repository as a separate executable is anyway required to be able to update (=replace) the menu .exe files. The updater of course already is doing something similar.

Like the other XP Pro users, I get the lower left title bar when the menu minimizes, but I get the icon in the system tray, too. I just want the system tray icon, but when I close the minimized title bar, I lose the system tray icon as well! Argh. Noticeably quicker...yay!

TF