Portable App Development

I'd like a switch to be added that will properly close the app. Specifically, I'd like to see this added to the Thunderbird Portable launcher, but I think it would be a good feature for all launchers.

Okay, well since there are no official PAF specs and the unofficial ones carry "don't use this" status, I figure I'll ask a different way: what do I have to do to my app if I wanted to release it on PA.com now?

I mean, if there's no specs and we're not supposed to use the unofficial ones, how is anyone supposed to release anything?

Okay, I found this out a while ago.
When a portable application such as Pidgin or Miranda runs, windows will store the settings for the behavior of the system tray icon [Always Show, Always Hide, Hide when Inactive] in the registry. However, when the program closes, these settings are kept and will be displayed under "Past Items" in the customize notifications part of the Taskbar & Start Menu Properties. This exposes all the applications which use system tray icons, that have previously been running on the computer. *gasps*

I'm working on making a launcher for a app called Skinner. But I keep getting this annoying message. My Code is:

Outfile ..\..\SkinnerPortable.exe
Name "Skinner Portable"
Icon "..\..\App\AppInfo\appicon2.ico"
SilentInstall Silent
AutoCloseWindow True
RequestExecutionLevel user

!include "FileFunc.nsh"
!include "ReplaceInFile.nsh"
!include "Registry.nsh"
!insertmacro GetRoot

Var APPDIR
Var SETDIR

Section Main
	
		System::Call 'kernel32::CreateMutexA(i 0, i 0, t "SkinnerPortable"2) i .r1 ?e'
			Pop $0
			StrCmp $0 0 DefineVariables TheEnd
		
		DefineVariables:

ok well i'm about to have to redo the png optimization for Secret Maryo Chronicles 1.5 and i wanted to know what you recommend to do. I was going to use OptiPNG but i wasn't sure what options to use to get the best optimization without messing up the graphics.

Hi all,

I've noticed that quite a few PortableApps include gdiplus.dll (and require it on Win2K and down); OpenOffice.org, Pidgin, Task Coach, Scribus, RegShot, and my own BPBible being the ones I've noticed so far.
Should we be moving that to the CommonFiles directory and setting %path% to include that? The file is about a megabyte, and, well... every megabyte counts.

What do others think?

Anyone think of password locking the PortableApps executable?

I'm messing with an emulated Slax on my USB And it's just too big. Can I UPX or compress the ISO's and still have it run through Qemu?

PS: Why not DSL? It's not persistent without partitioning your USB drive, I want to make this as painless as possible.

is it possible to query the name of the only folder inside my specified folder?

I know this has been posted many times before, but so far, I've only seen people saying that a portable iTunes won't work because it is a computer dependent program - it only works on one computer at a time. But is it possible to make it think that the USB device is the actual computer? ...and then I would just have to create a launcher for QuickTime?

I'm not asking for anybody to do this for me or even tell me how to do it. I'm just wondering if it's a possible idea to make iTunes a portable app without resulting to desktop virtualization.