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Call user defined (batch) scripts during startup and shutdown

Submitted by schentuu on December 22, 2010 - 5:31am

Hello!

Would it be a big deal to call user-defined scripts during startup and closing portableapps.com?

I'm thinking about looking if a specified batch file (for example startup.bat or shutdown.bat) exists in the Data folder.
If it doesn't exist, skip this point.
If it exists, execute the batch file before going on as usual.

Thils will give the user a possibility to define whatever he wants to do during startup or shutdown of portableapps.com without bothering you with "i need this new feature!!".

feature request for portableApps Menue.

Submitted by dekdeck on December 18, 2010 - 10:10pm

OK i have a few feature requests i think that would help improve the usability of paf menu.

1. group by category: add a view feature to "Options" to list the apps according to their types e.g. all security apps get listed under the name Security, all utility apps get listed under the heading Utilities etc. might have to add category to the paf format so that the app builders can add the category to the code. Then add code to the paf platform to read the categories and for the grouping. this should be easy :).

Windows 98

Submitted by Controller on December 18, 2010 - 6:09pm

Using the 'eject' feature, the PortableApps tool just quits without even removing the device (nor do programs recieve any removal messages/request)
If I remove the device using Windows, it cannot be removed (seems the PortableApps tool does not support this?)
It's a Windows 95/98/ME Mixture OS, where handling device removal is really easy compared to Windows XP. But as Windows XP is not Win9x compatible, and Win9x does not support all XP features, but I hope this issues will be fixed.
And yes, device removal definitely works on this Win9x OS!

Program Icons

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Submitted by Sarris on December 18, 2010 - 10:17am

All of my program icons in the left pane are too large (?) and only the upper left quadrant of the icon shows, not the nice full mini icons as pictured on the home page. This makes them hard to identify. Anyone else have this issue or a resolution?

I searched, but found no problem like this. I'm running XP pro SP3 w/ WS monitor @ 1920 x 1080.

Thanks;
Sarris

Catagorized app list

Submitted by Destects on December 16, 2010 - 1:47pm

basically, as usual, the favorited apps apear on top, but my idea is that all other apps be catagorized based on what there catagory is on portableapps.com.......

so the apps would have a {collapsable} header and thus, portable apps are more organized..

(please excuse my errors, im realy tired, and this came to me in a dream.. yes, i dream about computer programming, and arrays >.> ...)

Exit Apps when closing PortableApps.com?

Submitted by schentuu on December 15, 2010 - 7:59am

Hello there!

When i close my PortableApps.com using the X button on the bottom of the menu, the Programm closes itself but leaves all portable apps opened.
When i try to close&eject PortableApps.com with the ^ Button on the bottom of the menu, and still have apps opened, PortableApps close but Windows refuses ejecting my USB device because there are still apps opened.

Is there a way to tell PortableApps.com to close the opened Apps before closing itself?

By using the Search option of this forum i found an old thread from 2007:
-> Eject script (https://portableapps.com/node/7178)

Specify different configuration file at run-time

Submitted by Wizard on December 8, 2010 - 1:55pm

Hi!
I was wondering if there's any way of specifying which .ini file to use at runtime.
I have installed Google Chrome Portable and I'm trying to create different data profile folders for different users who will all use Chrome but not at the same time.
The solution would be to create a shortcut to the launcher for each user which would use a different .ini every time. The problem is that the launcher always uses GoogleChromePortable.ini

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