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Portable App Development

Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

PAL and Source Code

Submitted by dougakins on January 4, 2011 - 9:59am

Is there a way to get the PortableApps Launcher to generate a nsi file?

I have an old program I am trying to make portable for myself. Everything is working great, except that for in an ini file, I need to put in the short path (i.e. PROGRA~) instead of the full path.

If the launcher could output a nsi file, I could just add the /SHORT option and re-compile, but I wasn't sure if this was even possible.

Seeking app development partner

Submitted by patrickyoung on December 28, 2010 - 3:40am

We’re an online newspaper based in Sussex UK looking for an app development partner. Ideally we’d like to work with someone who can develop a mobile app for our newspaper. In return we will provide the content (news, features , competitions etc) . Advertising and sponsorship revenue would be shared and perhaps we could explore working together on other collaborations.

Dealing with Existing Files

Submitted by Jacob Mastel on December 28, 2010 - 12:04am

I'm working on updating my old AutoHotkey launcher with PAL. I've come to a bit of a roadblock though.

The easiest way I can think of is to store AutoHotkey.ahk (the default script AHK.exe will run) as well as a "ScriptSupport" folder in Data (to store any icons or supporting .ahk files the user might require). AutoHotkey.ahk will be moved to %documents% and the entire directory of ScriptSupport will join it.

JKDefrag portable is out of date!!!

Submitted by zdoofop on December 22, 2010 - 1:55pm

JKDefrag portable v. 3.36 was made obsolete long before the release of JKDefrag, or should I say, MyDefrag, v. 4.3.1, on May 21 of this year. As a concerned user of this program, I believe the time has come (and gone, long ago) to update it, especially now that it has been optimized for use on a flash drive.

link is here:
http://www.mydefrag.com/index.html

Chris, John, Devs: Addressing the problem of Windows’ “Special folders”

Submitted by Moonbase on December 14, 2010 - 6:46am

I just came across a big problem in the Spybot S&D thread again, which should be addressed once and for all — if anyhow possible: Windows’ “Special Folders” like %APPDATA% or “All users Application Data”.

Windows addresses special folder locations via so-called CSIDLs, and starting from Vista, it uses what we call KNOWNFOLDERIDs. It is vitally important to use these instead of trying to hard-code stuff like

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