Portable App Development

I've tried compiling a portable version of a game, and all seems to work fine until I launch the portable launcher.

When I start the launcher the screen flickers as though it's changing the resolution as it should, then it just quits and I'm presented with the following error message:

"Sorry, unable to find required files to run. Please check your working directory or reinstall the game."

It also creates a file in the directory called gamenamestatus.dx9
(substitute "gamename" with the game's actual name.)

Any ideas?

The Portable App - On-Screen Keyboard and the KeePass On-Screen Keyboard plugin both suffer the same issue when run from any 64 bit Windows 7 PC I have tried them on. Both programs work fine in 32 bit XP and 32 bit win 7.

This is what I found.

Error when opening On-Screen keyboard in windows 7 - "Could not start On-Screen keyboard" (Visual Basic Development Center)
This is an issue with 64-bit OS, it affects any 64-bit version of Windows.

Hi,

I made my application in accordance with PortableApp rules.
How can I make it updateable via the platform?

With best regards,

Andrei

Looking at the help.html file for the current set of portable freeware, some, maybe all, contain the following line:

This software is OSI Certified Open Source Software. OSI Certified is a certification mark of the Open Source Initiative.

The problem with that is that only the launcher is OS, the app itself is freeware, and while help.html does contain information relating to the launcher as well, it is generally more about the packaged app, thus making this misleading.

It might be worth changing this line for freeware apps to something more like:

To the developers of PAL,

I wanted to ask, since there is no mention of it in the V2.2 release notes, if you could please give me some pointers how I might solve this myself. I don't mind getting my hands a little dirty to at least work around this issue.

I posted my request here, instead of privately, so that others might benefit also.

Thanks,

Ambimind

Hi everyone.

I'm tying to make a portableapp. It's main program is stored in two directories: "c:\Program Files\AppName" and "c:\Program Files\Common Files\AppName"(not java or other plugin). So how do I handle this?

I put "c:\Program Files\AppName" into "App\Appname". Put "c:\Program Files\Common Files\AppName" into "App\DefaultData\Common Files\AppName" and wrote this in launch.ini:

Common Files\AppName=%CommonProgramFiles%\AppName

When trying to run ipconfig outside of the system32 directory on windows 7 I find that it doesn't work, so I came up with the idea that creating it as a portable app may help me run ipconfig outside of system32.
Since this is a program that is already installed on the system I am unable to use the regshot to see what it uses.
I was wondering if anyone could give me some advice on this, or if this will even work?

Thanks

I used PA.c Installer 2.0.8 to create an instaler of my app, and :

Internal compiler error #12345: error mmapping file (2130376261, 1392768) is out of range.
Size of app's folder is 2.16 Gb!

How do I resolve this problem???

Apparently there may be an issue with the Windows based application just released. Once I can get confirmation either way as to whether it has been resolved I will post it.

Hi guys

I've tried to find if there is anything similar to my question, but couldn't, so here goes:

How can I make the installer install some files, that will be used as user specific setting and that I'd prefer not to be deleted on uninstall, to the "Documents" directory (x:\Documents\BlaBla)?

The question is simple, but I can't find the answer. The app can save to that directory, but there are some files that have to be copied there before starting the application for the first time.

Thanks