Portable App Development

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.

Is it possable to edit the PortableApps Menu to allow Non-PortableApps.com applications? I currently have 53 portable applications on my drive, 48 are not from portableapps.com. If I could get a copy of the source code I would add a button that will launch a GUI allowing the user to add other programs. In addition I would allow the user to choose the location for the installed programs and documents folders. Great Job with what you have done, Thanks.

-BluePlanet

Alright I am almost finished with MoinMoin Portable Beta 1 but when I launch it a second time it does not work, because the launcher is not moving the "wiki" folder in Data\settings to App\moinmoin

Here is the .nsi:

SkipSplashScreen:
		;=== Check for data files
                IfFileExists `$EXEDIR\Data\settings\wiki\` MoveSettings
                IfFileExists `$EXEDIR\Data\settings\wikiconfig.py` MoveSettings
		IfFileExists `$EXEDIR\Data\settings\*.*` MoveSettings
			CreateDirectory `$EXEDIR\Data\settings`

	MoveSettings:

I have four ideas. Two of them are related to the development of the PortableApps.com Menu; and the other are relative to the forum (1 ideas forgotten, 1 in a loooooooooong time, 1 pending answer):

First, to the PortableApps Menu: resuming, is a schedule plan and support for modifying the menu in colour, font (colour, size), size, etc...

I would like a schedule plan for PAM, with exact dates. I want the new menu desperately and I would be more calm if I knew the exact dates, either for the next release, either for the 2 years away release.

This should be an interesting idea since most portable app programs have this program, it would allow us to to store passwords, and use this passwords to securely access all the sites that we wanted.

Hi!
A PAM-Mod-Theme called 'Jukebox'.

Preview & Download

It's for R29 and above (perhaps R31?).