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Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

PAF newcomer

Submitted by Magibon on December 6, 2011 - 8:06am

hello everybody!

im a frequent visitor here.
all of my apps. are either PAF, NSIS, but are all portable except for the few that need to be installed.

i have been using NSIS to make my portable apps. but decided to switch to PAF because of John @ PortableFreeware.com.

I have successfully built a few apps already.. but i have a few nagging questions i hope can be clarified here Smile

1. If the application stores it's settings in the registry:
- do i have to use [FileMove] to back it up in addition to [registry]activate=true? or is setting the registry key to be portabilized enough?

Help with Java app portability

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Submitted by Ken Herbert on December 2, 2011 - 5:50pm

Hey folks,

I'm in the process of making my first Java-based portable app, but Java as a platform is not a strong point for me. I seem to have come across something that isn't handled in the launcher manual, either that or I'm just not reading it correctly (always a possibility).

First of all, the app in question is Makagiga. I am using version 3.8.13 Portable/Cross-Platform purely because version 4 uses Java 7, for which there is currently no portable version.

Altium_Designer_10.700.22943

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Submitted by zhengfengran on November 10, 2011 - 4:56am

some one please make a portable version of Altium_Designer_10.700.22943

here is mine
and it does not work

[Launch]
ProgramExecutable=Dxp\Dxp.exe
CloseEXE=Dxp.exe
WaitForExe1=Dxp.exe
DirectoryMoveOK=yes

[Activate]
Registry=true

[DirectoriesMove]
settings\Altium=%LOCALAPPDATA%\Altium
settings\settings=%APPDATA%\Altium
Other=%CommonDocuments%\Altium\AD 10
settings\AltiumLic=%CommonAppData%\Altium

[DirectoriesCleanupIfEmpty]
1=%LOCALAPPDATA%\AltiumAltium
2=%LOCALAPPDATA%\Altium
3=%APPDATA%\Altium

[RegistryKeys]
DxpPortable=HKCU\Software\Altium

AppCompactor.ini not findable in the folder AppInfo

Submitted by tapsklaps on November 5, 2011 - 8:51pm

I used the PortableApps.com AppCompactor 2.2 with the aim to shrink my portable app streamWriter. According to the instructions on PortableApps.com AppCompactor and AppCompactor.ini the file AppCompactor.ini should resides in the folder AppInfo. Unfortunately I can't find such a file in the folder AppInfo of the app streamWriter. How can I fix that issue?

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