Portable App Development

This is a idea for supporting custom folders on the PortableApps Menu and allow a much more improved identification and indexing support.

The idea is to have a little file (called customdir.ini) on each folder. The next example shows an mockup of what could be in the Documents Folder (# represents that the following text in that line are comments for explaining how it works):

[CustomDir]
folderid=docs #sets an id to the folder, that way PAM can identify it.
foldername=Documents #defines which name should came up on the menu for that folder

How do I get it to work like a U3 device where it pulls up the menu when inserted? I am using a Windows Xp Home Edition, and a PNY Attache device.

Hi,

I have been downloading and using some "so called Portable Apps" from portablefreeware, and sometimes games... those apps are not really portables but they are self contained in a folder and write to the same folder and don't use the registry, so they can be used as portable... but some of them are huge (i.e. games).

After reading a lot about upx on this forum, I downloaded it and give it a try to reduce the size of those apps.

Can program WinBox in version portable ?

I would like to create Portable versions Bus Driver.
This game is saving to 'C:\Documents and Settings\{My Profile}\My Documents\Bus Driver'. How I can change this in Portable version to '{Game Dir on FlashUSB}\Data\My Documents'?

This was an old post, but I've started a new post so it can be better organized and less cluttered.

To make a FLASH GAME Standalone.

Go here
Click on this:
Download the Macromedia Flash Player 9 Update for Windows (ZIP, 34.2 MB)

Extract to your drive if you want. I copied it on.

How about someone make PortableApps.com skins for: Firefox, Sunbird, Thunderbird, Nvu, Pidgin (I think), VLC, and any other Portable App that supports skinning?

I know that all the apps on the MPL License cannot come with the skins pre-installed, so, for those apps, the skin could be available for download on the App page. On the other apps, under GPL license, the skin could pre-installed and stetted-up as default.

I am going to attempt to create a portable app using NSIS. To conform with the rest of portableapps.com . I have already Created the App there is only one problem. The program saves to a file and i want it to save to a file on the portable device. How will I solve changing drive letter issues as the program requires a filepath to save to.

jasonmcox@gmail.com

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I apologize if this is confusing, but....

Just to showcase how much time I have, I've created a XML version of the AppInfo.ini including a Document Type Definition. Please note that although Firefox says the document is not valid XML, it lies. It's because it doesn't parse external DTDs.

Technical details follow.

Portable Application Information Description (PAID)
Each PAID document must conatin "appinfo" as the root element. The children of this element must be "name", "description", "guid", "version", "icons" and "launchers". It may also contain the optional "copyright" element.