PortableApps.com Platform 2.0 Beta 4 Testing

The theme I created and mentioned here:

https://portableapps.com/node/21632

still works with beta4. It's a very basic theme meant to blend in with the "Windows Classic" look and feel from Win2000 and earlier. It's also a bit of a performance improvement for use over VNC/RDP connections because it avoids using gradients/dithers on colors. You can get it directly here:

http://www.duh.org/windowsclassic.patheme

I've released this to the public domain. John, you're free to slurp it into the official distribution if you like.

Ive been in this community for a little while and I am loving it, everyonve is really nice and adds something to this place. I want to be a part of it. So far I feel horrible for being a leecher that just bombards the forums with questions lol. I dont have much in the way of program development skill/knowledge, but I think that if I took a bit of time at looking at the programming breakdown, Id be able to play with it, and be able to contribute. So, that said. . . How do I look at the program? Do I need C++?

The ModR34 and geek menu have the latest news in 2008. I don't think they become alive again. So let us take the best of all to make the best of all portable menues.

and I didn't find anything mentioning a bug where when you press alt and you see the first letter of the options on the side underlined and you press that letter on the keyboard (whats that term?) it doesn't do anything. I kept trying for like 3 minutes and I declared it a bug (at least to me its a bug).

Could you fix that or just make the letters not underline when you press alt?

Thanks.

I don't know if anyone has had an opportunity to try PAP on XP, but I loaded it on my Mothers laptop that has XP, and the Magenta area thats not supposed to be visible, is visible. Anyone know why this might be?

1) The hotkey (ALT+WIN+SPACE) does not work in Windows 7. This should certainly be addressed and perhaps an option to change the hotkey?

2) I'n not sure if this is intended or not but the icon is always visible on the toolbar. This is extremely annoying and if it is a feature should be a toggle option.

Thanks for the great software,

SpiffyJr

The icons on the menu are somehow cutting themselves off, as if they are cropped too soon. I have made an image link to this phenomina (excuse my spelling

http://pics.nexuizninjaz.com/images/rm9ju3gg1y3iu57wt4fp.png

It may be something I have done wrong to my computer but I am unsure, if so I hope someone knows how to help. Anyways, I am using windowsXP SP3

Hey, this was something Ive been curious about for a while now but didnt know how to convey it right so I decided not to bother (that and I feel like Im just hoping around the community asking "what if"s and "How do you"s without giving anything back) But I was reviewing the eXpresso beta thread and they summed up my thought in one word "glass" lol. Do you think that glass themeing will be an option in the near future? Itd be nice to have the menu with a translucent look. I know that lowering the opacity is already an option, but glass would allow the text to maintain its opacity while giving it a clean modern look.

Hello,
is it possible to change the documents folders in PAM 2.0 Beta 4?

hi all, sorry for my English but translated from google translator.
new that should have the PortableApps suite would be the option of increasing the size of the icons (like the Windows Start menu) and another option would be that important to start the PortableApps suite will change your desktop background to a picture favorite jpg of our usb memory.
thanks and congratulations on these portable apps and suite as good

I'm testing quite a few apps in these days and noticed that sometimes when I click on "Add program" the open file dialogue pops up and instantly the dialogue AND the papps menu get closed! This seems to be happening randomly...

Hey, the Other night I had a problem with my computer and ended up reformatting and installing Vista again. Toward the top of this page (Page 2) of this thread, I had been talking about how when i used used a custom theme that has magenta in it, the magenta was visible in Win XP. Well, I ran into the same problem after the fresh Operating Sysytem install. The one thing in common with the fresh install and XP is that neither were using the Aero Appearance. Once I changes my computers "appearance" to Aero, everything was fine. So Appearantly PAP themes are Aero Specific?

This bug from beta 3 is still unfixed!

every few weeks John pushes out a lot of updated portable apps... great job, John!

with so many apps and even more updates i really long for the anounced update feature in the (next?) PortableApps menu...

I'll keep my fingers crossed that John soon releases the update feature!

Thanx a lot in advance, John!
Tom

I want to add custom folder into the portable apps menu.

Now, I am using X:\Documents\Downloads folder to download files from Internet.

Is it possible to add this 'Downloads' folder in the menu?

this is a big step in the menu, with the addition of themes but how about adding a folder option just to allow us to make the menu look tidier.

Folders/categories/whatever is probably the most often mentioned future feature. John is working on it, but he wants to make certain it's done well from the start.

May be John should add a message at the top of this thread like "I am working on Folders/categories. Please stop bothering me with it!"

PS. I myself have brought up this issue before, but that was before I've found out that my version of Delphi is too old to compile the code (I brought it up since I wanted to contribute, not moan).

hi

I am a new user of PortableApps. And I must say, what a wonderful job the developers have done. I also was wondering if I could make a few suggestion since 2.0 beta 4 is still on-going. What is the possibility of adding an search box on the menu to search the contents of the drive? And something less critical, how about the ability to customize the left-hand-side menu; as in creating shortcuts for any program/file from any part of the drive.

EDIT: yes I realize there is a search menu button on the right hand side, but it default so the Window Search, an integration with the Everything engine would be nice. And like I said, a search box right on the menu would be nice, And if the result could be shown on the left-hand side of the menu, it would be awesome (sort of like what windows start menu has, except with a better search engine of course). The current search options for drive, while computer, and web are great though.

I hope I don't sound pushy for a newcomer.

Again, great job to the development team, and the community in general for their support.

thanks a lot

Sam

No dates, PLEASE - projected dates are impossible to meet, and they don't help progress the development.

But can we get an idea of what's been accomplished in the coding, what's causing problems, and what's still just in the planning stage?
Or maybe what other things are getting in the way, such as commercial promotion, expansion into freeware, or lack of developers?
Has the decision to fold some apps (like the Updater or the PFA) into the platform causing insurmountable problems?

Please don't take this as a complaint or criticism of the work you are doing!
It's really just a plea for more real, concrete information than "it's coming soon".

Some apps use Mercurial, or Bugzilla, or Subversion - is there anything like that for the platform? I saw some post that said I should hang out in the IRC to get more info, but I never saw anything.

Thanks.

I am a new user, and i will like to ask, will Portable Apps ever make a suite for Mac OS X? Cos i normally use my laptop, which runs on Mac OS X.

The free space meter is updated when you reopen the main window, but immediately after uninstalling an app via the platform it doesn't update the meter to reflect the extra space you've just freed up. Also the message box button says "Ok"; it should say "OK".

In Wine, having run the Platform and let the main window hide, left click on the tray icon didn't open the Platform; right click worked, but single click, double click, triple click, random clicking couldn't open the Platform window. I think that's a regression (in Beta 3 it just required you to click once to select the tray icon or something and then once more to open the window).

I haven't tried it more than once, and I should, but that was as I experienced it the first time.

Hi, i'm in love with this plataform, it's just fantastic! but there is a thing i think should improve the plataform, sometimes I miss in the plataform a way to create our customizable folder in the right side (Documents, pictures, music and videos)
for example, in my case I don't carry videos in my flash drive, but i have a folder called "College", and would be very nice if i could access direct in the plataform, instead of the folder called "Videos"

thanks in advanced

OK, I read the coment of dboki89, and I already know that way to add a folder on the left side(for me that look too ugly :S) what I said about add a customizable folder at the right side was just a sugestion to next versions

so I've tried this both on XP (SP2) and Vista Business... I noticed that refreshing the list of apps is MUCH faster on Vista than on XP. Not sure why... but just a heads up.

And can you make the default image in the menu that flash drive that you made the drive icon? I tried to edit the 48 x 48 px image and put it into the menu, came out a little blurry.

Does .patheme support GIFs and if not can you make the menu recognize it?

Interesting thing keeps happening to me. I have 2 usb sticks plugged in one is recognized as drive L the other as drive M. Both contain PortableApps one is what I call my "main" stick the other is a "specialty" stick. Both have a different theme set so I can easily tell when I launch on which one I am using. Lately with neither launched I go to my computer, Drive M and click startportableapps.exe. Now the anomaly Drive M picks up the default app of drive L. I go into the options of M change it back and then restart it and it returns to L's default. Mind you L is just inserted the PA Menu is not launched.

Ok, I know some people already wrote about that, but...

"Windows7TaskbarIcon=False" works, but you don't see taskbar icon at all (or see it always when =True).
After I recompiled under Delphi2009 (only changes was PAnsiChar -> PChar due to native Unicode, but that shouldn't affect it), program acts differently when "Windows7TaskbarIcon=False": when window active taskbar icon visible and icon disapears when window looses focus.

Downloaded version is 2.0 Beta 4 (exe's ProductVersion field) and compiled is 2.0Beta4 as well.

I also tried to mess with precompiled exe's window handles with Total Commander AceHelper plugin. That icon disappears only with TApplication's window is not visible - TfrmMenu visibility does not affect taskbar icon.

I think that might help a bit

I had wondered what was up with it being out of system tray until I found the answer in this thread........Been using the 2.0 beta version since it was first released. Ready for the full release version and the floodgates to open.

Hey Mod Chris --- I look like a spammer cause I posted my link in the proflie field?.........Why the hell would I use a dang software site for spamming hound hunting...........My guess, 99.9% are not houndsmen, I am that .1%.

Sorry, I don't have a computer site, I am houndsmen who plays and works with computers. If you guys don't want people to enter a site in website profile field, then perhaps you guys should disable the function.

Thanks for making a long time app user feel welcomed after his very first post here.

I had never needed to ask a question therefore never registered......Only reason I registered today was the fact of the system tray but found the solution after I registered.

Would you be happy if I provided a screen shot of my computer with the app open to verify I am not a spammer?

I guess it's ok for others to post a non computer link in their profile field but I get slammed for it........Smells like an Animal Rights Freak has a problem.

While fiddling for no appreciable reason, I found another bug, in the personal picture region. If you set it to an HTTP link, such as the PortableApps.com logo as an arbitrary example, (invisible download and storage in TEMP happens with Explorer at this point) when you go to change the personal picture again, you can't. Changing to anything else will lose the setting and it'll go back to that one from the web. I'm not clear on what it is that's causing it, I tried square brackets (as that's how it can end up when saved) but that didn't help.

And if you set it to a non-image source online, such as http://portableapps.com, you will become unable to set it to anything at all (other than hiding it with a right click), until you delete Data\PersonalPicture.png manually - the root cause seems to be that it fails to delete Data\PersonalPicture.png when it came from an http:// filename.

Just testing the SimpChinese launcher translation, I found a problem in the Platform: in ChineseSimplified.locale, the LocaleID is set to 936; this is the codepage, not the language ID. It should be 2052.

I think this might be a known issue but here it goes: in windows 7 home whenever I open the PAM the wallpaper slideshow gets destroyed and I have to manually reset it.

I made my own theme here:
http://wifileech.webs.com/Dark%20Glass.patheme
Set the transparency to 10% so it looks good.
Feel free to modify or do whatever with the theme. I don't care.

Is it possible to use themes with diffrent menu sizes on this platform (like with the PAM Mod)?

download seems to be down

I've just been checking the languages and have come across two more mistakes with locale IDs.

• Luxembourgish does not have a locale ID assigned by Microsoft. Its LocaleID should probably be changed from 1033 (English) to 9999 (like Sundanese). (There are "French - Luxembourg" and "German - Luxembourg" in Microsoft's list, but I believe this "Luxembourgish" to be quite separate from both of these from a brief look in the files.)
• Belarussian is a misspelling of Belarusian and should be renamed to that.

There are also the other matters which I mentioned to you today but I'm not certain you got all of them.

• Farsi had a LocaleCode3 of "per/fas" which should be cut down to just "fas".
• Sundanese and Vietnamese have invalid line breaks in a few places which meant their messages would get cut off (and they couldn't be read with Python's RawConfigParser which is stricter than normal INI parsing).
• Simplified Chinese has a LocaleID 936 which is actually its codepage; it should be 2052. (Reported above but I'll put them all in one post here.)
• Filipino has its LanguageCode, LocaleCode2 and Localeglibc all set to "fil" where they should all be "tl".

If installed on a fresh stick will this give me the shell and allow me to populate it with programs I want or does it need to be overinstalled over previous versions?

I know stupid question but hey look at the person asking

is there a way to make the bar at the bottom of the PA menu show used space instead of free space?
i couldnt find this anywhere and i was wondering if there was a way to do this?

and i love what'll be coming in the new beta next week xD