You are here

Portable App Development

Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

Hosts

Submitted by Gaber on October 27, 2017 - 2:33pm

Hi,

I would know how is better manage the hosts file. I have to add a line and the hosts file could change in time (so I can't backup the file and substitute every times).

Is there a specific command for add (and automatic remove) the line each time?

Thanks

Portable Firefox pops up About Firefox dialog every time it opens after update

Submitted by Shmoe on October 24, 2017 - 4:05pm

The subject pretty much sums it up, but our users are updating to the latest ESR, and now every time the browser launches the about mozilla firefox dialog pops up and sometimes steals focus, causing our users to hard reset the PC.

Any idea how I can stop this from happening? Much appreciated.

Thanks!
Mike

We Need A Mod 2 Disable 'Scold Pop Up' Nonsense Please =)

Submitted by Ultragod on September 25, 2017 - 5:36am

We Need A Mod 2 Disable 'Scold Pop Up' Nonsense Please Smile I notice 4 example the Portable Firefox 52 I am using doesn't launch the 'scold popup' if you "Didn't close it properly last time" krap. Please somebody write or find for us a thing we can drop into all the 'portableapps.com' programs to disable that garbage. It's TOTALLY lame & unprofessional & probably 1 of the main reasons this 'portableapps' stuff is not as popular as it could be. It is also TOTALLY unnecessary.

Include FullAppDir as a variable in PAL?

Gord Caswell's picture
Submitted by Gord Caswell on September 7, 2017 - 7:48pm

All,

While removing the $Bits variable setting code from Custom.nsh files, I discovered that the only remaining portion of Custom.nsh for many apps is the chunk setting %FullAppDir%.

I'm thinking of adding $FullAppDir by default, using ${AppName}64 and ${AppName} as the directory names referenced.

Move file and folder in the right 32/64 bit application folder

Submitted by Pico1965 on September 6, 2017 - 9:01am

I try to portabilize an app developement in 32 & 64bit architecture.

The versions of program are stored in:
%PAL:AppDir%\program32
%PAL:AppDir%\program64

In %PAL:DataDir% there's a folder:
SETUP
and a file
program.ini.

Execute the right version of the program is simply:
[Launch]
ProgramExecutable64=program64\program.exe
ProgramExecutable=program\program.exe

My goal is move the folder SETUP and the program.ini file in the folder content the right 32/64 version of program.

Think i found a bug...

Submitted by enzeinzen on September 4, 2017 - 8:21am

Hi,

I'm trying to make a portable version of this game and it uses a HKCU registry key. So i set it up with [RegistryKeys] and it works fine, the .reg gets saved and its fine.
However, the second time the app is run, the settings (which are stored in said registry key), are all messed up.
I investigated the issue and found that the PAL Launcher saves the .reg wrong.

Below are the registry key i got with regedit, by running the game without PAL and the file the Launcher saved. Note the difference

Regedit Export :

Pages