Portable App Development

i think that this program should be made into a full portable app

Hey there. I'm having a strange issue with my app ProTeXt Portable. After fixing a bug reported by a user where I needed to change AppInfo.ini a little, I noticed that the icons don't show up for either part of the application. I rebuilt making sure that the icons were included properly in the .exe's and still they show up with no icon in the launcher.

I am not a programmer, i just come across this scrip on the web, i am checking if the portable.com launcher will add this scrip for service apps

create service script save as CreatService.vbs
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Const OWN_PROCESS = 16
Const NOT_INTERACTIVE = False
Const NORMAL_ERROR_CONTROL = 2

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" & _
"{impersonationLevel=Impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

Set objService = objWMIService.Get("Win32_BaseService")
errReturn = objService.Create("DbService", _
"NAME", _

Hi all i am new with portable apps, i am try to make proxycap portable but it not working due to it run on windows service

I have uncomment the !define SERVICES_ENABLED line in Other\Source\Segments\Services.nsh

but i don't know what to recompile Other\Source\PortableApps.comLauncher.nsi

Can an experience person give highlight, i use proxy cap to play game, i need to carry them on USB when going out on another PC i can not install it everywhere. some body give idea how to get the service working

I'm currently working on BabelPad and have hit a roadblock for language switching. I'm pretty sure I'm going to have to write some custom NSIS (which I haven't really touched before), but just wanted to see what is the best way to do it.

I was scrolling through my directory of PortableApps and I noticed that some apps (RegshotPortable) has 2 AppNamePortable.ini files. One in the Appdata/Launcher folder and the other in the Other/Source folder. Apps like Firefox Portable and the majority of other apps only have one AppNamePortable.ini file in the Source folder. I've also noticed that Regshot Portable has its splash screen in the Launcher folder, but Firefox (and most other apps) has its splash screen in the Source folder. Both apps are built with PortableApps Launcher Format 3.0.

My program requires the MyApp.exe file and the MyAppLibs directory to reside in the same directory location.

I want to use the portable apps installer program to create the install package. I can get it all working except I can not figure out how to get the MyAppLibs directory included in the installer. I did successfully work around this using the [optional component] section - but I do not want the user to need to click to install the necessary library files.

How do I get this additional directory of stuff included in the installer package?

Didn't want to mark it as a bug just yet in case it is something wrong with what I am doing that I just am not seeing.

I have the following code in my launcher.ini for Pencil Project dev test 4:
[Launch]
ProgramExecutable=Pencil\pencil.exe
DirectoryMoveOK=yes
WaitForEXE1=xulrunner.exe
RunAsAdmin=force
RunAsAdmin2000=none
RunAsAdminXP=none
RunAsAdmin2003=none


But on XP I am getting an error when running it as follows:
Error: invalid value 'none' for [Launch]:RunAsAdminXP. Please refer to the Manual for valid values.

do this all portable apps run on linux mint??
i have linux mint on my laptop so,
please guide me through this.
are portable apps running also on Linux Mint??

I still don't get the point of these variables or how they would be used. Currently, I have an app on the desktop. So, PAL:LastPortableAppsBaseDir reads C:\Users\Kenny Williams (not C:\Users\Kenny Williams\Desktop), but what if I move the app to a different directory? It can never check for the \Desktop portion of the location of the file and thus will never be able to change the directory correctly.

Wouldn't it make more sense to remove these two variables and implement PAL:LastPortableAppsDir instead?