PortableApps.com Platform

Hi, John Haller

I known in the past that you were against Portable apps from having nested categories. I remember a long time ago someone actually forked portable apps and was able add it. However I can't find that source anymore, to try to update it.

Here are my reasons why I think you should reconsider adding this into the platform.

The update mechanism used to work but recently (for no apparent reason) has consistently produced this error:
"Unable to download the file. This could be due to a proxy or network issue or the hosting server not permitting downloads from your location." I'm located in Israel.
I tested updating only specific apps via the updater with the same results.

I would like to know if it is okay to install the portable apps platform on a Laptop with Windows 10 Home edition on SSD drive and then install the portable apps I would like. Would it be easier to install updates of the apps as well would there be any issues with the windows start menu or any other issues. please provide details thanks

Just in case anybody else is interested:

I wrote a tool that reads the portable apps directory (configurable, defauls to c:\PortableApps) and adds them to the Windows 10 start menu.
Announcement is here:

https://blog.dummzeuch.de/2020/11/01/portableappstostartmenu-1-0-0/

It's written in Delphi 10.2, source code is available under the MPL and I am willing to donate it to the PortableApps platform if you are interested.

I just downloaded the latest source archive from SourceForge (PortableAppsPlatformSource17.1.1.7z) and tried to compile and run it in debug mode. I immediately got a Range Check error here:

unit main.pas, Line 1905:

for iControl := 0 to length(arrAppButtonForegrounds) do
if (TObject(arrAppButtonButtons[iControl]) = Sender) or (TObject(arrAppButtonForegrounds[iControl]) = Sender) then

Which is correct because arrAppButtonForegrounds is declared as

arrAppButtonForegrounds: array [0..19] of TImage;

Yesterday I tried to install jPortable (x64) on my Win 10 machine (via Portable Apps ... get more apps...). It went through the motions, it said it installed it (the option disappeared from the list of available apps). However, when I subsequently checkd on the list of installed portable programmes, it was not there. Now I can not 'uninstall' it (because it's not on my list of installed progs), nor can I re-install it , because it is not on the list of 'available' apps.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

Not all apps can't update by the updater, so the network connection should not be the problem for this.
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I'd like to have a document that describes my portable apps - lets say called "helpfile" - launch directly from the platform in the same way that apps do.
At present I have an html document in "documents" - but it requires a lot of actions;
in platform "documents" - opens explorer to documents folder - find the right document - double click - opens in edge.
Ideally I want a single click "help" to open the document - such as in a pop-up box.

There’s a Check all/Uncheck all at the top of each section of The Portable App Directory. Would it be possible to have an option to check/uncheck only the apps in the particular section, instead of all available apps in the directory?