Portable App Development

Testing some apps in development test status arose a question for me: Where to point an App's Output folder by default - if applicable?

It seems to be handled differently until now. Some apps default for AppnamePortable\Data, some for "My Documents" on the host PC (many official apps), some for Documents including their designated section Pictures/Music/Video, some even somewhere in their App folder (obviously a design flaw).

it even went open-source, thanx to a new hooking engine.

see : JPE 0.6.0 Runtime release candidate build Testing Needed

The last few weeks it has been tested, and seems to work well, even with Vista or Windows 7.

Hiyo, I noticed today when I downloaded AppCompactor it came with a old, unstable version of 7za (9.15)

As most of you know 7-Zip 9.20 (Stable) was released a few months ago.
I don't think it should cause any problems using the old version but, since a lot of PortableApps are compressed using it and PA 2.0 *should* be right around the corner, I would think this needs to be updated.

Its also using an old version of UPX (3.5) which would be nice to have updated to the latest (3.7)

7za 9.20 download:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/files/7-Zip/9.20/7za920.zip/dow...

hello there!

as in topic, is it possible to get a information about
non-updateable apps in the list?
maybe a notice about alpha/beta status will be nice too!

Not working see the photo for the error http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/6743/googlechromeportable.jpg

On the main page say Google Chrome 9.0.597.67 but when downloading GoogleChromePortable_8.0.552.237_online.paf different version

I just wanted to be clear on this. Can an app released under the BSD license be repackaged as a portable app? From my understanding it can be, but wanted to make sure I was correct.

John and I have been discussing how to encorporate language switching into Stickies. Unfortunately the app handles language switching in a rather odd manor. When it's launched it checks it's running directory for a file called "language70.dll". If that file is found it will pickup whatever language is contained; if there is no file it defaults to English.

On IRC John said that

The application that I am working on has a setting to "launch at windows startup". If this settings is checked, the application will add a registry key value to:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

My problem is that I can't find anywhere how I can remove a single registry key value. The following would remove all values from this key, which is not what I need:

[RegistryCleanUpForce]
1=HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

What I need is something like this, but doesn't seem to work:

[RegistryCleanUpForce]

Hi there!

i love portable apps soooo much. but i have one problem, always new versions
coming out of the apps and ill have more to check for updates and unzip them as i can use the tools.
how about a special tool, in it you can select your important unzipped used portableapps and search for updates, then it will auto download, unzip and so on.
i think it will be good if its seperated from the portable apps launcher.

many thanks to you all!

Ok. I have this all about working know. But still having a little problems. Got a few apps that I need the presetting to write/over right the files & to registry before launch of app and then backup after launch and written to the "data" folder.

I have the need files pre-set files & the portableapp.reg key in "app\defaultdata" folder. I need that information to be place back in reg and the files to be placed in a specific location and read on launching app.

What do I need to add to the launcher ini to do this?

Thanks