Portable App Development

Im wondering when you are looking for the environment variable for a program, for when you use "System::Call 'Kernel32::SetEnvironmentVariableA(t, t) i("APPDATA", "$SETTINGSDIRECTORY").r0'" what exactly would you be looking for in the source of that program so you can replace "APPDATA" with what it uses to store its data in its location it defines. Is it just like variable or the name of the folder where the data is being stored?? Thanks in advance for any help

There's a lot of large apps in the Beta forums, and it takes longer to both download and install them. The PAUpdater has this problem too, it downloads then installs. This wastes time. Time could be saved by making a progressive web installer, that downloads one zip at a time while extracting them also. This saves time especially on a newer computer, with decent memory but slow internet (like Patrick's PC :P). Just the Data and Other dirs would be included. Then the AppName folder would be downloaded while extracting.

does anyone know of another place besides these forums to get free human translations for open source apps? i don't even think there is anyone on these forums who translates italian or chinese.

in the case that people who can translate on these forums sees this, the translations still needed are:

IT and zh-CN here: https://portableapps.com/node/12477

DE, IT, JA, pt-BR, pt-PT, zh-CN here: https://portableapps.com/node/13249

After a long time here comes my new Themes, available in different colors.
And........ drum roll......
SciFi, one of the theme´s, is the first official cooperated work from MrElchbau and Me

Name:
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Regards your
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This is the place to discuss / find the new icon for the upcomming PortableApps.com Updater.

Every help is welcome but should follow the PortableApps.com SPECs.

I finally figured out how those splashes work in the PortableApps (GIMP, Stellarium) and TuxPaint. TuxPaint's splash is compiled of three pictures; title.png, title-credits.png, and title-tuxpaint.png. title.png is a Tux holding a paintbrush, title-credits.png is the credits (New Breed Software & Tux4Kids), and title-tuxpaint.png is for the title (Tux Paint). If anyone would be nice enough to make a portable edition splash, I'd be really happy.

Hi!

I've been trying to create a PAF installer for Eclipse but I go the following error while executing it. I took the installer script from 7-Zip Portable and I use it to create some PAF installers already but this is not working with Eclipse.

The error is:

File: failed opening file "..\..\App\Eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.platform.source_3.3.3.r33x_r20080129-_19UEl7Ezk_gXF1kouft\src\org.eclipse.core.runtime.compatibility.registry_3.2.100.v20070316\runtime_registry_compatibilitysrc.zip"

ok, i can't access the registry at this one computer. will programs still run if i create a portable thing?

Ok, so I know that there are updated versions of programs. But I don't want to download each one, one by one. So is it possible to have a suite of all the updated programs? Oh, and I am talking about the Standard Suite PA. And to add to that, could it be possible to have a suite with all of the apps available?

I wanted to get some opinions on including the instructions for the PortableApps.com Installer within the appinfo.ini files directly, which should eliminate the need for coding installers for most developers. It'll still be using the PortableApps.com Installer as it is now and it will still be GPLed with exceptions (and more exceptions with 1.0), but the code will be autogenerated. I'm thinking the following section at the bottom of AppInfo.ini:

[Installation]
DeleteAppDirectory=true
DeleteDataDirectory=false
DeleteOtherDirectory=true
DeleteRootDirectoryFiles=false