Portable App Development

I wanted to make Peerblock work with my portable apps platform and I thought I would look into making it myself. Peerblock already has a portable version (but it can't go into the platform) and doesn't appear to be written in Java or .NET so I thought this would at least be a little easier.

Is there documentation that lists all of the language variables for the PortableApps platform? The best I was able to find was Chris Morgan post in Language Environment Variables, but doesn't have all of the languages and it is more than a year old, so I wasn't sure if something had changed.

I'm working on Zekr Portable, and it requires the languages to be specified in a format similar to en_US, de_DE, fr_FR, etc. I don't now if that is readily available from the platform, or if I will have to parse it myself for the available languages.

As discussed yesterday in irc, the new PA.cInstaller 2.0 still has a problem for online installing to a path containing foreign characters.

One way to solve it was to run 7z.exe from $PLUGINSDIR, but this could potentially still give a problem if %USERPROFILE% contains foreign characters as well.

After some more investigation I found out that 7z.exe v9.14 beta also solves the problem. And, because this is not an issue for 99% of the users, probably it is better to wait for v9.14 to become stable and use that, before to change the installer script !

Hi everyone,

I need some help! I'm trying make a USB drive auto run a website link in Windows 7. I know this option has been removed in W7. But I want to at least have a pop up window that automatically appears when the USB is inserted and have the user the option to click on the stored URL without having to alter any setting on their PC. Is this at all possible?

Hey everyone,

I am almost finished with my BumpTop Portable edition, and just need to deal with the registry settings.

Here's what I got from regfromapp portable:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
Settings\ZoneMap]
"UNCAsIntranet"=dword:00000000
"AutoDetect"=dword:00000001

This should be in a .reg file, am I correct?
Also, where would I put this file and how would I direct the launcher to this registry file?

All help appreciated,
shanet

Hey all

I have finished my project and there seems to be no information on how to upload my portable application to sourceforge. Can anyone please help?

Hey every1

I've finally got my launcher working for bumptop portable, but I face a problem. I need the appdata from "%USERPROFILE%\Appdata\Roaming\Bump Technologies Inc.\" to be run from "BumptopPortable\Data\appdata", however I don't know how to change the environmental settings in the executable.

If I am doing the wrong thing, could anyone point me in the right direction? Is there any *.ini files I need to make?

Thanks heaps
shanet ☻

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In a post down the bottom of the screen, I accidentally uploaded the wrong file.

Why do many of the development versions have broken links, I can't test them if I can't download them. I do understand that the one guy had his sites attacked by some hackers, which is messed up. I hate hackers they mess things up for everyone then people like us suffer the consequences.

I guess I sound like a prick but that isn't what I intended, I really am a nice guy. I just hope that somebody had downloaded the development versions of the apps before the links were broken and could share them with me, especially for GNU IceCat Portable, and EyeOS if that is possible.

I've made a portable version of the game Burning Sand 2 (http://www.siebn.de). Not sure where to post this though and if I did everything correctly. Can anyone please take a look if I forgot something and tell me how to do it (I'm still a newbie to this, so...)? Thanks!

Can someone please give me a complete step by step tutorial to build a portable application using NSIS. I know how to get all the program files and the registry entries which the program uses but want to know in detail how create and compile the NSIS script and create a launcher using the PortableApps.comLauncherGenerator.

I have searched a lot over the internet and also in these forums but none of the tutorials are satisfactory. I also didn't understand the content given in the development section of this website.