Portable App Development

[Edit] Sorry, I found my mistake, it was an error in the "Start=" line in appinfo.ini. Please ignore this post.

I have created three portable apps for my personal use (two of them are proprietary, so not candidates for "official" portable apps in any case). I used the same method in each case:

• Created PortableApps\AppNamePortable folder by copying from PortableApps.com Application Template (downloaded from the Development page).
• Set up appicon.ico and appinfo.ini in \App\AppInfo\ folder and AppNamePortable.ini in \App\AppInfo\Launcher folder.

When using SingleAppInstance=true, is there an alternative to the horrible error message and beep?

Is there any way to get the running instance to come into focus instead, like installed software sometimes does when it only allows one instance?

Cant recompile the launcher with this release, all I get is
a not-so-clear error from NSIS (probably about Language.nsh),
which persists even with simplified *.ini's.

Today I looked into the source folder of Google Chrome Portable, but it seems that there are only the launcher source files. Is the source code if the (online) installer also somewhere available?

Regards,
Leon

here, the location is wrong. It says it goes into Other\Source but it should be App\AppInfo\Launcher\Custom.nsh.

I'm working on a portable version of UMPlayer, but I ran on an issue with the logo licensing:

UMPlayer FAQ
Q. May I use the UMPlayer logo?
Yes, you may freely use the UMPlayer logo using the following copyright notice with one notable exception; you may not use the UMPlayer logo to redistribute the binary application outside its original packaging form:

Hi! I have a game I develop that I want to see portable.
The game itself is already portable, persay. uses only relative paths, and can use it's DLLs from the working directory.
No issue there.

HOWEVER, there is an updater, which is mandatory for continued play of the game.
This updater, written in visual basic, requires a DLL to be registered. It is called Z-Updater, and can be found on sourceforge.

If anyone can edit the source code of the updater to no longer require the DLL, it would be greatly appreciated.

Tell me please, I can not in any way solve the problem ...

Duplicate File Detector at startup creates a folder in the "common documents". I can not simulate the creation of this folder in [DirectoriesMove]...

my Launcher ini:


[Launch]
ProgramExecutable=DFD\dfd.exe

[DirectoriesMove]
Duplicate File Detector=%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\documents\Duplicate File Detector


I was wondering if it is possible to make Nero portable. Sometimes I have files that I need to copy and I am not around my computer, but the computer I am using has a cd/dvd burner. Being able to have Nero on a flash drive would be fantastic. Does anybody have some hints on how I would start this, or if it is possible? Thank you.

Hey there,

I am trying to use the path of a portable application in a registry value. Something like

!define REGKEYS "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Vendor\Subkey\Path=REG_SZ:%PAL:AppDir%\SubfolderofApp\"

apparently won't do anything. Any hints ?

[Moved from General Discussion to Portable App Development - mod Chris]