Portable App Development

Often times applications are placed on a removable drive and then needed in another directory. The problem with this is that shortcuts will break when the drive letter changes. One solution is to have several copies of one application scattered throughout your drive, however your data becomes scattered and you lose precious space on your drive. PAM.S.C. aims to provide a better solution. Leave your applications in one directory and create a small app (21 kB) that can be placed anywhere on that drive that then starts your application. It's not your conventional shortcut, it's shortcut2.0!

About the menu disappearing whenever you click on something, can it be set to only do that when opening an application, eg PA.c program?

I find it very annoying to say the least, even if it (the menu) is dramatically faster, more responsive and more intuitive bar this one issue.

Thank you

I'm currently talking to the TinyResMeter developer about making a PAF-compliant build of it.
For those who aren't familiar with TinyResMeter, here's a quote from the homepage:

TinyResMeter is a small tool that displays useful information about system resources in real time, but it also gives much more detail when you right-click on the displayed fields !

I don't know what the specific term would be, but is there any way to block/lock-out the right-click option in the PAP, like adding a script to an ini file or something? After Ive hidden an App on the list, I dont it being unhidden.

I am trying to implement code in a launcher to modify the path to the App directory within an ini. Is there a good example in a launcher or something I could look at/lift out? Below is the ini file.

AppDir = "C:\VTPSUHM\"
MessagesEnabled = 1

I had a question about the PA Platform Menu. Is there anyway to customize the Platform Menu. Like on top of or instead of listing only portable apps, allowing a user to add specific files contained in the drive (whether it be docs, videos, or audio files) to the list. And customizing the Interface color scheme. If no feature like this exists, could one be developed?

I am creating Age of Empires 1 Portable. This is NOT going to be distributed in any way as this is for my personal use. I will be happy to upload the launcher for anyone who wants it.

I have created a launcher for the game. However, when it starts to launch, I get an error: "Could not initialize graphics system. Make sure that your video card and driver are compatible with DirectDraw." I cannot figure out why it gives me this error.

Hello,
i found this thread here at Portableapps.com for making Portable PS CS2 : https://portableapps.com/node/1426 and as i browsed through GOOGLE i came across a number of TUTS with the same method/procedure. But i couldn't find any response from some who actually was able to make one with the steps outline.
So i guess i m not the only one having trouble with the TUT, i followed everything in the TUT but i still keep getting errors, PS CS2 simply wont open.:?

Hey everyone.
Here is one more loader for Google Chromium browser
https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0BwuaD-SluFUUMWEyZDMzMWEtOGY1Ni00NmM4LWIwM...
that can be used for Google chrome as well

Instructions:
1. take latest chromium build here
http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-xp/
2. extract chrome-win32.zip in Application folder
make sure that path to chrome.exe is
Application\chrome.exe
and not
Application\chrome-win32\chrome.exe

I have packaged XML Copy Editor for use with the PortableApps Platform. Please let me know what you think and if there are any improvements that are needed.

Category: Development

Description: XML Copy Editor is a fast, free, validating XML editor.

Features:

• DTD/XML Schema/RELAX NG validation
• XSLT
• XPath
• Pretty-printing
• Syntax highlighting
• Folding
• Tag completion
• Tag locking
• Tag-free editing
• Spelling and style check