Portable App Development

Hi there. I'm very interested in all these portable softwares and think u guys had done a great job.

However, I'm not too sure how an application is being made into portable format and how did .paf came about. Can anyone please guide me along??

Thanks in advance.

I’ve been really WOWed with this PortableApps stuff and have been feverishly adding John’s ported applications to my thumb drive plus some of my own with some help from the user community in the forum. Excellent work by John and the community group.

I am now down to one application (for now anyways) that I can’t get to work unless I’m on a machine with admin rights – obviously defeats the portable part. It is e-Sword (www.e-sword.net), a free Bible study software tool.

Hello guys and thank you for Portable Apps which is really good.

I have concern about the availability of applications in another languages as only english is available. As I'm french, I want to know if you are planning to release applications in french (not only the menu v1.2 which have translations available). I can contribute because I'm sure most people don't have the knowledge to do it themselve (beginners can't do that). I can make Portable Apps package like yours but in french.

Hey All!!

This is my first post here...
I searched and didn't see it mentioned anywhere, so here it goes!

Can anyone make a launcher for Aviscreen??

http://www.bobyte.com/AviScreen/index.asp

It's freeware, but all it does is make a few registry entries.
I rarely change the settings, so if somebody could just make a wrapper to delete the reg edits on close, I would be much appreciative.

My starter:
1. Creates a temporary file
2. Starts the application
3. Quits

The file is in use as long as the app is alive and a while longer.
Then I'd like to delete it.

Does the winapi task scheduling work on VERY limited accounts?
I haven't checked too carefully, because I doubt it does.
I tried
CreateFile( filePath, 0, FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_SHARE_WRITE, 0,
OPEN_ALWAYS, FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE, 0);
before starting the app, but it didn't work.

If you understand the paritual lagunage a programm is written in and you have the source and no licensing problems... What do you think about rebuilding the source?

Hi everyone...
I have developed pretty much PApps, but what I am doing is I am doing a
zip and then unzipped them to the location.. instead I really don't want to use winrar anymore I want to zip them in .paf format.

Please, HOW CAN I DO THAT?

When i managed, keep an eye out... as I will be posting about 5 new portable apps...
great stuff...

Hi,

Was just reading lifehacker, and found this nugget talking about a bit of software that allows you to install in a virtual layer that captures registry calls etc...

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/installation/hack-attack-safely-insta...

Maybe this could be used for portabalising apps?

I'm nearing completion on both my U3 and PortableApps versions.
Are there any licensing issues with any of the tools used? For example, do I contaminate my shareware license by using any of these open-source tools? I'm using NSIS to build a simple launcher, compressing with UPX and 7-Zip/SFX, and and have hacked the resulting .paf.exe with ResourceHack, inserting my own info.
Any problems here?

Is there a graphic library for those who would like to customize our installers to include the cute little (circle/arrow) PortableApps logo?
Is it permitted?
I would like to overlay the circle/arrow graphic onto my program's icon, to signify "My app's Installer".
I would expect that would be allowed, as it would help promote the PortableApps brand, while keeping mine intact. Is this ok, and are graphic files available?

Also, is there much point in going the extra mile here for the 7zip installers, with the new NSIS installers coming, or is that far enough in the future?
Thanks,