Portable App Development

Hi all,

I am trying to portabilize software with Chris Morgan's PortableApps.com Launcher 2.0 and so far have been successful with three apps which do not need any registry entries but only need to move around files. The launcher is really great and it was a breeze to make software portable so far.

Hi,

i have installed Freemind on my pc and copy on my PortablesApps's USB key.

It's a free mind mapping software which i work with everyday.

This application run ok on my key. Is it possible to add this application ?

Frremind page

For normally installed applications in Windows 7, if you middle-click on the task-bar icon of the application, you get a new instance of that application. I miss that functionality for PortableApps.com apps, especially for Firefox Portable. Is this difficult to do? I wouldn't mind adding a few lines of code on my own if adding this feature leaves data on the computer or something. But I need to know how to do it, if it's possible.

thanks

PS: I read on lifehacker that you can disable the splash screens, how much does taht improve load times, if at all?

I have installed the Portable Apps launcher and when I attempt to create a portable app I receive an error:

NSIS was not found!

I suspect that I have done something dramatically wrong or have just not installed something correctly.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Mark

I was thinking about how some programs such as Spybot S&D and Microsoft Update have a setting for including beta versions in their lists of updates. Perhaps PA.c could have something similar? That way, normal users wouldn't receive beta or dev updates by default, but testers or curious users would be able to download them at their own discretion.

Dear forums,
I hope this thread belongs into this topic. If not, please feel free to move.

I installed and tested PA.c Platform 2.0 Beta 5 today. It contains the application updater. When I ran it, I noticed that it wanted to update FF3.6 and TB3.1 to the same versions.

Most probably I have updated FF and TB via the built-in update function, not waiting for the official PA release. Can this be the reason?

Thanks alot,

NiMhurchu

Hello,

I'm trying to create a portable app. I was able to create a launcher and an installer for the app. Running the app itself works fine. Running the launcher works fine. When I try to run the app from the PA.C platform, however, absolutely nothing seems to happen. Looking at Process Explorer, I didn't see any process being started. I have tried renaming the entry and removing and reconnecting the USB device. Really not sure why it doesn't do anything. :s

Is it possible to set up the installer.ini so that optionally replaces files in a certain location?

There is an issue with the latest release of Hedgewars Portable where, for some video cards, some of the files need to be replaced. Right now, I include the latest and greatest in the installer, with a note in the forum thread about what to do if you have the error, but I would like to roll the workaround into the installer, if possible.

I started this, to see if it's help full to have a topic specially dedicated to 'PortableApps.comLauncherCustom.nsh' codes, unicode plug-ins and other useful scripts. Hopefully this could help us not re-inventing the wheel every time custom code is needed, or having to search all over the web for a unicode plug-in. If you're willing to contribute some code, I think it would be good practice to code it in a way it's useful for several PA's and to have the custom code make use of the launcher.ini settings.

Hi all!,
can you please take a look at this error that I keep getting and tell me what
I'm doing wrong please.

MakeNSIS v2.46-Unicode - Copyright 1995-2009 Contributors
See the file COPYING for license details.
Credits can be found in the Users Manual.

Processing config: 
Processing plugin dlls: "R:\PortableApps\PortableApps.comInstaller\App\nsis\Plugins\*.dll"
 - ExecDos::exec
 - ExecDos::isdone
 - ExecDos::wait
 - FindProcDLL::FindProc
 - InstallOptions::dialog
 - InstallOptions::initDialog
 - InstallOptions::show
 - LangDLL::LangDialog
 - MoreInfo::GetComments