Portable App Development

2015-10-29: After answers from JTH and others, I have revamped this post for the benefit of others to follow.

I almost choked on my own spittle trying to navigate this site in the hopes of converting an already stand-alone app into a paf.exe. The first challenge is that the starting point isn't so clear. There are 4 use-cases here, and the "Guerilla Field Guide" covers one of them; using it for the others is like using a shotgun to kill a housefly. The four use-cases are:

Is there a true need for a Portable Utility to download and install the Java JDK? I know I wish there had been when I was looking to no avail. Did find a Powershell script that did the trick with a little tweaking.

My question is; would I be wasting my time by creating a PortableApp Utility for distribution to install the Java JDK in the CommonFiles folder? The JDK would not be included in the distribution. The Utility would download the Windows installer then strip out the JDK and install it.

For apps that allow multiple instances, the Launcher has two behaviors that don't seem right.

Hello! Can anyone help me? I want to add TS notifier plugin for my TeamSpeak and make it portable.
I know how to do portable TeamSpeak, but i can't understand how add plugin to portable version. Please help me.

Sorry for my English

I'm running the DSynchronize. I have 4 Sources and 4 Destinations like below

The main form looks similar to below
Source Destination
C:\Data\Path1 A:\Data\Path1
C:\Data\Path2 A:\Data\Path2
C:\Data\Path1 H:\Data\Path1
C:\Data\Path2 H:\Data\Path2

I initiated porting muCommander to PortableApps (https://portableapps.com/node/51352) but I don't have an expertise to further the project. It is a Java application universal to all OS. Currently, UTF-8 support in file name is not working properly, and FTP and WEBDAV support has not been tested. Althought the development has been suspended for a long time its rich set of optons is still very comparative and competitive.

I was looking at the platform changelog and noticed that 12.0.5 [2014-09-10] "ADDED: Ability to create a local Start menu/tile shortcut icon". What is that feature, and how do I access it?

This might be of some interest - a portable CMS. It's HTML5 file based, no SQL required, and comes in Apache/Linux and Windows versions.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/hyperframe/files/

Has an online page editor using CKEditor which works on the actual page as you view it. Using the Windows version it's possible to make a website that runs entirely from a USB stick - Handy for presentations and the like. Will also run under XAMPP portable with a few minor adjustments.

When I set my new Acer UHD-Notebook with open PortableApps into the sleeping mode, and will start it again, than the portable apps window is smaller, not clickable and in the left uper background.

Nothing helps, only a resart of my hole notebook.
Does anybody knows a solution here?

Hi,
I want to make a BATCH script to "portabilize" a program that doesn't need more than "users" rights (doesn't need "Admin" rights/privileges). That program reads registry keys and values in HK_LOCAL_MACHINE to define some options and variables.

I would like to force that program to read HK_CURRENT_USER (or any other registry key that doesn't need more than "users" rights) instead of HK_LOCAL_MACHINE because I don't want my BATCH script to need elevated privileges (and call an UAC prompt) to set up my program.