Portable App Development

I wish that there is a way that users can modify the main concole as that apps could be stored in a folder so that apps can be sorted out as the user wishes his or her portable start menu should be. Ü
But seriously ... this modification would make a serious difference between using portable apps and PStart 2.11 by pegtop software (pegtop.net). I'm using both because PStart still has that customizing thing that Portable Apps couldn't offer. Hope you guys out there would give in to this wish of mine. Thank you very much and more power!

Is there a way with nsis to set windows path. Like in a batch file you would have

set var=path\to\folder

is there a way to do that using nsis??

Has there been discussion of environment variables? I know lots of programs ignore them, but some don't, and it might be helpful to do some things with them.

Will this copy the whole \2k\ dir into \bin\ dir

StrCpy $0 "$EXEDIR\App\GnuCash\orbitfix\2k" ;Path of copy file from
StrCpy $1 "$EXEDIR\App\GnuCash\bin" ;Path of copy file to
StrCpy $2 0 ; only 0 or 1, set 0 to overwrite file if it already exists
System::Call 'kernel32::CopyFile(t r0, t r1, b r2) l'
Pop $0 ; pops a bool. if overwrite is off and there is a file then error will be 1

if there something wrong with this code?? because its not poping up a msg box at all and im running xp, im not good with nsis yet so i though i might have messed up the if statement or something. GetWindowsVersion is a function i found in the manual.

Section "Main"

; Windows 2000 Fix
Call GetWindowsVersion
Pop $R0
!if "$R0" = "2000"
MessageBox MB_ICONEXCLAMATION|MB_OK "windows2k"
!endif
!if "$R0" = "XP"
MessageBox MB_ICONEXCLAMATION|MB_OK "windowsXP"
!endif

SectionEnd

I've got the start of the updates code for the PAM ready. It's still a long way from being finished (doesn't even check yet), but at least it's a start. Rather than being a generic solution for many servers, ala AMP, it only handles the PA site, which reduces the complexity.
Et, viola.

procedure TfrmMenu.GetUpdatesINI();
// Download the updates INI from the PortableApps.com server
// Acknowledgement: http://delphi.about.com/od/internetintranet/a/get_file_net.htm for the function
var
	remoteUpdates: TINIFile;
	remoteUpdatesPath: TString;
	localUpdatesPath: TString;
begin

HERE is a small tutorial to create your own PAM theme. the tutorial is for the original PAM and the PAM MOD themes (wich use the theme.ini).

have fun and greetz
NeoRame

Hi, I have quite a few programs that I want to launch with Portable App, and I would like to "sort" them in folders like "GraphicApps", "OficeApps", "MultimediaApps" and "GamesAps". Portable Apps currently only scans the first sub-directory Any idea for a work-around? (Shortcuts don't work unfortunately)
Thanks, Lui

is there a quick way to check what version of windows a user has then store it into a var

Well folks I think I created a Portable Firefox for Linux.

It works, I tested it on my USB stick and it was so super simple.

If anyone wants to try it out (and if the devs want to tweak it and add it to the list of apps) below is the download link **NOT SELF PROMOTION - IS A WORKING PORTABLE APP FOR LINUX THAT I'VE YET TO SEE DONE**

Also note, This was tested so far on a USB stick and hard drive on Linux Mint 3.1

[link removed by moderator JTH due to licensing]

Just decompress and run startfirefox.sh and be sure to give me feedback, bugs, what systems it runs on, etc.