PortableApps.com Platform

I'm sure it is too late for Platform feature requests, but maybe this is already in queue and I have not found the right info...

It would be very helpful to have a function to search for updates of any installed *PortableApps.com supported* applications.

I enjoy navigating through the website, but it does get tedious checking the current version of every installed supported app, and checking to see if updates are available. Invariably, most of the apps I use are several versions old.

Let's say we made a new folder in the documents folder...

but it looks so bland because the other folders around it all have a custom icon (you know like the music, video and pictures folder...). Is it possible to make a custom icon and make it display like those icons do?

I am using the 1.5.2 platform release not the new beta.

Hello together

A few days ago, I worked on my weekend-PC. I don´t know the rason, but on this day I thougt that the usb-ports are slowly (external HDD). After I restartes my PC the USB-Stick seems to be empty.
On the root I can only see files with a size of 158kb and in the "new" folder there are exactly 10000 Files with the ending "*.chk". They are 97MB.

But on the Stick is shown, that there are 2,55GB Files.

Does anybody know, that has happend?
Does anybody know, how I can restore the files?

please look at the both pictures:

I have been using PStart for launching portable apps and want to give the PortableApps.com platform a shot.

Installation was a breeze but I am stumbling at what must be one of the very most basic tasks - how to get non .paf format apps into the platform within directories? For example, I have many Nirsoft portable apps in their own directories nested in a 'Nirsoft' directory in PStart.

Can I accomplish the same structure in the Platform? I'm used to piling apps into directories like: Audio/Video, Games, Imaging, Net, Productivity, Utilities, etc. to organize and save menu space.

As a possible future enchancement, could PAP have the ability to install themes?

It seems that all the menu has to do is to check to see what directories are in the ".\App\DefaultData\Themes\" directory (based from PAP directory. i.e. :\PortableApps\PortableApps.com\App\DefaultData\Themes\ ) and make a dynamic menu of available themes, similar to how the language sub-menu is populated.

I am sure that this would also simplify the code behind PAP...

Comments?

I'm new to Portable Apps and when I wanted to install a new portable application and followed the instructions, the new app icon appeared in the menu, but could not be initialized and a message appeared that the .exe file could not be found. I tried several times but the result was the same. What could have gone wrong?

The PortableApps Platform is multilanguage, but the folders "Documents", "Pictures", "Music" and "Videos" always stay in English, but is possible to add multilanguage support in folders, simple modify the "Desktop.ini" and the folders will be changed to OS language (Only Windows -- all versions):

Documents
[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21770
InfoTip=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-22914
IconFile=..\PortableApps\PortableApps.com\App\DefaultData\FolderIcons\documents.ico
IconIndex=0

If I may be the first to comment..

I installed this and am impressed by the scan option, as well as uninstall.

Also, the hide/unhide options are great.

The text size, transparency etc is cool.

It seems to work faster as well, with switching to front among other things as well I appreciate the drive checker; the ability to hide desktop icons is very interesting as well and makes me wonder what else this thing can (or should) do.

Anyway, best of luck to the developer.

hi,

i searched the forum for any help but only found the advise to put "RemainVisible=True" in the menu.ini what i did. still the menu stays not visible but minimizes. can anyone tell me pls what i have to add in the .ini to make the menu stay visible ALL THE TIME.

any help is much appreciated!

joe

Hi,

I am not sure if this is the right place or not (and I apologise if it isn't) but the PAM has a memory leak (both version 1.5.2 and 1.6 beta).

When PAM reloads the application list, it calls TfrmMenu.ClearButtons, which clears the TAppListItem array. It doesn't actually frees the TAppListItem or TIcon objects. Upon exit, the TAppListItem array (and TIcon) objects are not freed.

There are two issues (with fixes):

1) TfrmMenu.ClearButtons needs to be modified from:

for intCounter:=0 to Length(arrAppItems) - 1 do
arrAppItems[intCounter].Icon:=nil;