Portable App Development

Ive been working on an Auto Update installer.

It works by first adding a new Sub Menu item onto the PA Menu to check for updates. This then closes the PAM and launches the Auto Update util.

The util works by contacting a web server and downloading an update.ini which it reads. The update.ini lists things like what the udpate name is, where to get it what to do with it etc etc.

It then downlods, applys the update, checks the version and finsishs, it also can handle errors and if the versio is the same.

This is the latest version of my additions to the PAM. These include the unfinished eject when exit to the now addition of changing wallpaper. It will change the wallpaper to one in "App/DefaultData/Wallpaper/MyWallPaper.bmp". It will change it back to the previous wallpaper after exiting. I know the eject might be bothersome to some(an extra message box on closing), but I might get different results and be able to fix it. Anyone wanting thier hands on a newest "beta" of some needed changes, please try this out.

Is there an offical .paf.exe layout yet?
also, how do you edit the SFX archives to allow custom icons?

I'm making an application and would like it have a native portable edition that can be installed easily in the PortableApps menu, however, I can't see a clear way to do that just yet. It seems almost everyone has only dealt with apps they know too little about to do anything but make a native version to run from a key.

Hi Everyone

Today (or was it yesterday?) the latest version (1.1) of the Mozilla Seamonkey suite was released.

see: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/releases/seamonkey1.1/README.html

I have created a version of seamonkey portable based on the latest v1.1, which uses a script to re-direct the profile into the local folder.

Here's a challenge for you. I have an app which depends on a font (PowerTab Editor), and I'm interested in making it portable (personal use only, of course). Is there any way I can do this? The app won't run without this font because the symbols in it are crucial to the function. There's no way to configure the location of the font within the application or in configuration files, so it's a case of temporarily installing the font, or somehow making the application think the font is installed. Any ideas?

I'm trying to put a program called glGo on my thumb drive. But I get these errors:

"Shared data directory not found"

and

"Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
Runtime Error"

The weird thing is that it works when I run the exe-file directly, without using the PA launcher. "Shared data directory" must be the folder in glGo called shared, but the PA suite doesn't find it, obviously. Why is this? and why the C++ runtime error? Any ideas?

I've just come across this site, and it's great. I'm using a portable jEdit at the moment. Here's my method:

1. I copied the jEdit program files to E:\apps\jEdit.
2. I created a 'settings' directory in E:\apps\jEdit.
3. I created a shortcut with the target set as "E:\apps\jEdit\jedit.jar -settings=E:\apps\jedit\settings". This means that all jEdit settings, installed plugins, etc, are stored here, instead of the "system specific" default location.

Well, i was just thinking that what will happen if you make a background transparent were you want to see through...

hi!
when i connect my usb-drive an autostartmenu from windows xp appears. i start portable apps through this an start an application. when i want to start another one the portableapps menu doesn't react anymore! just wanted to tell you this since i have no idea where this is from.

greetings