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Portable App Development

Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

Jar Starter

Submitted by Jochnickel on October 22, 2013 - 1:07pm

I created a Jar starter, so you can launch any .jar File within the Portable Apps Menu without the jPortable launcher Dialog.
It uses the jPortable runtime, which must be installed.

You just have to create a New Folder for the app, put in the .jar file (additional files of the app too, of course) and put the also the launcher files into the folder.
Within the appname.ini you have to replace appname.jar with the name of the .jar file.

DirectoryCleanupForce with wildcard

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Submitted by darksabre76 on October 21, 2013 - 4:17pm

I'm currently working on a program that creates a partial-randomly named directory to work with and then leaves it there after runtime. I assume it's being used as a temporary file storage location, but that is inconsequential because I want to remove it. Unfortunately, DirectoryCleanupForce doesn't seem to work with wildcards. Is there a way of getting rid of these directories? Or will I have to resort to using NSIS scripting? Below is the exact code I have written in the launcher.ini file.

[DirectoriesCleanupForce]
1=%USERPROFILE%\.asy
2=%PAL:AppDir%\asy\asy_*

PAF Appinfo Editor

Submitted by dekdeck on October 18, 2013 - 5:42pm

Description: PAF AppInfo Editor is a program used for creating/editing a PortableApps.com app. It simplifies things by making most options point and click. Using this editor would prevent you from making mistakes that you would otherwise do if you were manually typing up the appinfo.ini file.

CRC: D4BDA964
MD5: bbb7e02fcbb807db9c9a4ec674fe29de
SHA-1: 90fa9e0554c66294c9f1618e28060bc64e67d32a
Dependencies: .net Framework 4.0
Languages: English
Changelog: http://paste2.org/smwxM3zG

ExecWait doesn't work anymore

Submitted by thasmo on October 14, 2013 - 5:32pm

I've got the following code to run a custom executable file after installation of the portable app:


!macro CustomCodePostInstall
ExecWait '"$INSTDIR\App\Cygwin\Cygwin.exe" --quiet-mode --no-shortcuts --disable-buggy-antivirus --site http://cygwin.xl-mirror.nl --root $INSTDIR\App\Cygwin\ --local-package-dir $INSTDIR\Data\Packages\'
!macroend

Unfotunately this stopped working some time ago. It seems like the execution is just skipped.

Any idea how to get this back working or what the reason is?

Thanks a lot!

syswow64 DLL help

Submitted by jedione on October 12, 2013 - 8:43pm

Hey guys Have a App and These DLL files need to be in the syswow64 folder

MFC71.dll
msvcp71.dll
msvcr71.dll

1. All ready..Try'd like integrated C++ and just put them into the app folder! no go..

2. Try'd this also

[DirectoriesMove]
MFC71.dll=%windir%\syswow64\MFC71.dll
msvcp71.dll=%windir%\syswow64\msvcp71.dll
msvcr71.dll=%windir%\syswow64\msvcr71.dll

No go..is my variable wrong! or what!..
and if so is their a list of all the variable suported.

Thank for your help....

Creating Portable App: Simple Shop (invoice software)

Submitted by simpleshop on September 30, 2013 - 8:54am

I'm willing to donate to person, who would create portable app for our software Simple Shop (http://www.simple-shop.si/en/).

Our goal is to share application via USB stick.

If anybody can do this for us or help us please report me back.

Software download link:
http://www.simple-shop.si/prenos/SShop.exe
Software requirement:
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

Thank you...

Can't add portable apps to "Open With..." menu for file types

Submitted by lee321987 on September 29, 2013 - 9:30pm

I used to keep all my portable apps in a folder called "C:\Program Files (portable)", and when they are there, I am able to add any of those programs to the "Open With..." menu for file types.

However many (all?) of the portable apps have been altered so that they will not run from any folder that starts with the words "Program Files", so I have been switching to the default "C:\PortableApps".

No I can no longer add portable apps to the Open With menu for file types.
e.g. Right-click > Choose Default Program > Browse > select the portable EXE > Open

Creating a portable application from Visual Studio projects

Submitted by MRM256 on September 26, 2013 - 4:49pm

I made a VB.NET 2008 project to create dynamically generated data entry forms for SQL Server database tables.

My question is: is there a way that PortableApps can take this project and create a portable application from it?

I want my tools to stay with me and not on the company PC I happen to be using.

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