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Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

Why PortableApps.com installer expects an exe file in the AppName folder?

Submitted by javydreamercsw on December 7, 2010 - 12:54pm

I'm making my first app and struggled a while to get the PortableApps.com installer make the installer to my app. It kept complaining about no exe file on the AppName folder when its defined to be somewhere else on the AppInfo.ini. I had to copy and paste it there just to get the wizard started. Specially when I'm defining the files to be downloaded.

Am I missing something?

Need some help with registry

Submitted by Raph74 on December 3, 2010 - 4:15pm

Hello,

I recently found PortalApps and I'd some idea about making one of my game portable, Vindictus.
But I've the following problem : the game won't run until a key is missing in the registry and this key is located in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
Since I want to use the game on my school computers, I don't have privileges to add this key with a simple .reg file. So I'm asking you if there is a way to bypass the privileges? or simply change the folder of the key to HKEY_CURRENT_USER by modifying a file or maybe use the key in a .ini file?

Here is the key I've to add:

How/when do apps get added to the directory?

Submitted by Metalogic on December 2, 2010 - 12:37am

I'm confused. I've added a post to the Apps Ready For Official Release, Post Here thread expecting that the app would be added to the Portable App Directory but there was no follow-up. So I looked at some of the older posts and I don't see any of those apps in the directory either.

Is anyone monitoring that thread? How are we supposed to publish our portable apps?

Thanks,
Metalogic

NSIS help

Submitted by SantoshV on November 28, 2010 - 11:53am

I think someone suggested me to look about the most basic nsi script i.e in through sumatra pdf's script.. I looked throughly it.. It has "Rename" for file moving between data dir and program dir. Now how do i move t settings folder from(for example) data\appnamesettings\xxxx to %APPDATA%...

Change directory before starting the application

Submitted by 3X4Portable on November 25, 2010 - 2:53am

Is there any possibility to change directory (application specific directory) before launching the application?

I'm writing a launcher for an application already installed on the system in use. As I often have to change the settings (a lot of registry values) I exported them as set to files and would like to import them and then start the application automatically. So my PortableApp is not a real portable one, it's just a tool helping me to manage the different configurations.

Really confused..

Submitted by SantoshV on November 23, 2010 - 12:00am

I've a Made a portable version of an app named "Orbit Downloader 4.0.0.3"..
I want this to go for development tests..
What do i next.. Pls point out..
Does it really take 6 months for an app to become an official portableapps.com version??

gPodder python help

Submitted by agdurrette on November 22, 2010 - 7:35pm

Someone requested gPodder and I was thinking about working on it but I have a question.

It is coded in python so there is a bunch of .py scripts. All the dependencies look like there included (including python). When ran it compiles the .py scripts. I was wondering when I package it should I include the compiled scripts package it as is?

jauntpe question

Submitted by joshatt on November 20, 2010 - 6:35pm

Hi,
I'm newbie here. Could anybody please point out the error in my testing move:

I use JauntePE030AlphaNB19 trying to portalize a software. Everything works but in the end: (this software tranforms a document into .doc file and automatically calls Winword to open that .doc file.), when it comes to this "automatically calls Winword", error occurs and some msoffice install procesure occurs...

I find out that .doc is saved to folder like ".\jpe\user\apps...", not where I wanted it to be.

Is there anything I can do?

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