Portable App Development

a.exe (which I've now renamed to AMAA for AutoMenuAutoAccent) is a AutoHotkey_L script written by me. AMAA does the following:

1. Gives shortcuts for placing accents on letters similar to MS Word (with some added functionality aimed at developers).
2. Overrides the Windows key to open the PortableAppsMenu rather than the Windows start menu.
3. Overrides [Win + E] to open a user-specified file browser.

I have tried to install this verson of skype (Skype Portable 5.3.0.111) on my flash drive (Kingston 8GB) and it was telling me that there was a problem with the program itself as in the install package itself was corrupted. I tried again and the same thing. Then i completely uninstalled the app and tried to reinstall it....still the same problem. Somebody please help me (or if there is more) us.

Hi all,

I would like to see update of Planner 14.2 to Planner 14.4. I found this page https://portableapps.com/node/5160 , where was planner 14.2, but 14.4 is better. Much bugs are fixed and I will be very happy if anybody could to do update of it.

Homepage of planner : http://live.gnome.org/Planner
Planner for windows : http://winplanner.sourceforge.net/

Thank you.

I don't know if it's the right place to post but supposedly I can hit the a key and accept the license agreement, eg Skype but it's stuck in the text.

Is that an inno issue or PA?

I am building a launcher that should download and extract the necessary files and not include any base application files itself in the installer. I have this in the installer.ini file

[CopyLocalFiles]
CopyLocalFiles=false

[DownloadFiles]
DownloadURL=http://example.com/Setup.exe
... etc

When I look inside the paf.exe file created by the installer, the base application files are still being included. (i.e those inside the X:\PortableApps\AppNamePortable\App\AppName folder).

What am I doing wrong? How can I exclude these files from the installer?

Thanks

Just need to get my head around the [RegistryKeys] launcher entries...

So taking the example

[RegistryKeys]
app=HKCU\software\app

On launch
If there is no registry file in %PAL:DataDir%\settings, the live registry key is backed up and then deleted. There will be no key left in the live registry.
If there is a registry file in %PAL:DataDir%\settings the live registry key is deleted and backed up and replaced by the %PAL:DataDir%\settings entry.

At end of run

It seems that there is no documentation for %WINDIR% which might work (not tested) but I found no equivalent of NSIS $SYSDIR which is required to portabilize many admin applications.

[Moved from PortableApps.com Platform support to Portable App Development forum - mod Chris]

In reviewing a program with RegShot I received the following entries:

C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\xxx\NTUSER.DAT.LOG
C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\xxx.EXE-3868F2CB.pf
C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\FIREFOX.EXE-1D57670A.pf
C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\xxx.EXE-1035DFC7.pf
C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\software.LOG

(some characters I have replaced through a "x" sign)

Do I have to note the above items, or can I ignore them?

Does anyone know how I can code a system call within the 2.0 launcher/code? Basically I need to refresh the desktop once the launched application has closed - in order to reset the original desktop. I thought that RefreshShellIcons might be enough, but this obviously doesn't seem to refresh the desktop. Without it, the desktop only reverts to its original state on the next windows logon.

I have a portable app (Eclipse Portable) that spawns a compiler (iverilog.exe). However, the compiler--which is installed under the portable app's folder--requires DLLs. I can make the compiler run by copying the DLLs to the Windows\System32 folder on the host machine. Of course, this makes the PortableApp no longer portable.

Does anyone know how to setup the PortableApp to locate the DLLs? Or configure the environment variables?