Portable App Development

Hey, I'm in the final stages of a portable app launcher, but for one final configuration piece, I need to pass a string to the launcher from another .exe (basically, as a command line parameter), so basically the launcher would be called by the command "MyPortableLauncher.exe" -stringgoeshere

Basically, I'm passing the launcher an environment variable that exists only within the app itself and is semi-random (I think it's user-specific), and other weird stuff, so I can only get the string into the launcher in one of two ways, both involving passing via a parameter in an executable call.

Ok, here is the first Skin for Jooleem. The next Skin coming soon...

Name:
AMORA

Jooleem-Version
0.1.4 and higher

Preview & Download

Hope you like it.

Regards your
NeoRame

As you might know I made X-Moto portable. (It's currently in development testing)
I thought it would be pretty cool to have a PAM skin for this game. What i thought was something like this: a Portable Apps branded USB stick as a moto (with wheels of course) and a driver. (No idea for the driver a this point though.)
Example can be found here and a tutorial can be found here

I'm working on portablizing a game called Sokowiz. I noticed it was skinable and although I'm not super good at graphics I was thinking it would be really cool to have a PAM theme. Would any of our Graphic artists mind making a theme? It doesn't look like it would be too hard. It gets it's theme from a single .bmp file.

so can java apps be made PortableApps or not. there are portable java apps on here, so how is it done? Angry IP Scanner is switching to Java so i'm just hoping i can support it on here still.

how do i compile a c++ tarball for windows? not sure but it looks like i probably need to use cygwin to do it but it doesn't really have much helpful documentation. i'm trying to recompile Secret Maryo Chronicles after making a small change in the code and i just thought someone like Steve would know how to recompile it.

I have some time to kill every couple days, and a basic understanding of programming, so is there a guide that's a bit more detailed than the one at https://portableapps.com/development ? I want to see if I can take programs (open source, obviously)that are already psuedo-portable (like in a .zip or .7z archive), and just make a .paf out of that. Nothing special, just writing paths, adding a splash PA logo, and then making the .paf itself.

Hi!

I'm working on my first PortableApp which is using %APPDATA% folder for storing settings. Is it possible for the Launcher trick the app so that it could use Data/settings directory instead of %APPDATA% or should I recompile the application?

I'm in the process of putting together a portable build of Perl based on the fully open source Strawberry Perl distribution. The intention of this is for it to be placed in CommonFiles for use by other portable apps, like portablized Java is now.

Here's a little background on how strawberry perl is set up followed by my opinions on how to proceed:

I was wondering about this, because I'm talking to my friend who's doing a project for school, and part of it is, he's running a game to show his project's results.
the game he's running is THPS3(Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3) PC, and he was asking me if it would work to copy the program files to his portable hard drive, and run it off that.
I told him I assume it would not work, due to required registry files, but I'm not 100% sure on that.
if it did require registry files, would there be a way to emulate these entries without having to add them to each computer's registry he runs it on?