Portable App Development

I am a new guy here and was hoping to find some open source or sample code of a app launcher on the lines of Magic Formation that could be run from USB. I will begin working on my own version but was hoping to find something I could just hook into and start playing.

Thanks

As I've been browsing around through the forums, there are a lot of apps that made it to the dev test level but then just kind of died out and are really out of date. Updating an app is often quite a bit easier than starting from scratch and I know that I often have some time to work on an app, but not enough to start from scratch, and that updating an app often goes quite a bit more quickly than creating a new app, so I had a thought. Perhaps we could get a list together of dead/abandoned dev-test level releases and see if we can get new people to pick them up and bring them up-to-date.

Comments on the new 0.91 release can be found here:
https://portableapps.com/node/19414

I'm creating this topic to get comments from developers, moderators and others on the updated PortableApps.com Format 0.90 and PortableApps.com Installer 0.90.0. Any discussion and contributions can take place here.

All existing bugs from the 0.13.3 release of the installer have been fixed in 0.90.0 based on testing.

I've discovered a bug in the ReadINIStrWithDefault.nsh macro file I wrote that we use with many of our releases. Specifically $0 and $2 are accidentally swapped by the macro. I'm guessing that we haven't noticed it because most of the variables we use are defined and we only use the macro at the very beginning of our launchers before we make use of any of the other variables, but it could be affecting some launchers out there.

Here is the updated macro that fixes the issue:

; ReadINIStrWithDefault 1.1 (2009-05-12)
;
; Substitutes a default value if the INI is undefined

I have Firefox 3.0.10, and i think it has a bug. Sometimes when I change a setting, or delete a bookmark, etc, after I close and open it again, it undoes the changes. Does anyone else have this problem?

I have created my first portable app.
everything seems to work ok but as soon as I compile the script the appName.exe (in my case 'tuxguitarPortable.exe' is not included.

when I install it to the menu it doesn't work and when I extract the content of the installer I only get the 3 folders 'App', 'Data', and "other".

and when I copy the appname.exe in the root folder it works...
howcome the launcher is not included when compiled...

please help me out

thanks in advance

This has become the PortableApps.com Launcher.

Chris's PortableApps.com Launcher is your PAL in making portable apps It is configured with an INI file which goes in App\ChrisLauncher\AppNamePortable.ini, and uses a splash screen in App\ChrisLauncher\AppNamePortable.jpg.

does anybody know hot to edit .exe files,so i could edit files of portable apps to try and fix buggs because i know other portable apps websites and there apps have bugs and i message them and they do not update there files,so if there is a way plz tell me

Is there a format for submitting patches/modifications to existing apps? To avoid getting into trouble for cross-posting I won't mention the example in question, but there was an app that I had a fix for, and I added it as a comment to a thread discussing a problem that I fixed, then just posted to that thread, but I was wondering if there was a more centralized place for that kind of submission than the bottom of a thread buried in the "Other Apps" forum (where that unmentioned example is...

How to add batchfile (mybatch.cmd) to PortableApps menu?