Portable App Development

I'm trying to move all my PortableApps/${AppNamePortable}/Data directories under PortableApps/Data/${AppNamePortable} but am finding that more apps do NOT support the SettingsDirectory option that those that do.

Here is a summary of my installed apps. (All updated to latest stable version.)

YES | 7-Zip
NO  | AntRename
YES | Dia (creates PortableApps/DiaPortable/Data but uses SettingsDirectory)
YES | DiaShapes
NO  | Evince
YES | Firefox
NO  | FoxitReader
NO  | Geany
NO  | GIMP
NO  | Git
NO  | GnuCash
YES | GoogleChrome
NO  | gVim

I should have made a thread about this a long time ago, but it seems that the compile-force option doesn't seem to work. The reason this was implemented, if I recall correctly, was that in the event of launching a process as admin, all environment variables were lost. I believe compile-force was an attempt to fix this, but the variables still do not show up in the properties of the admin processes.

I need to set the AppCompatFlag 16BITCOLOR. How can I do this?
I know this thread: https://portableapps.com/node/29056
But SET __COMPAT_LAYER=16BITCOLOR is not supported.
Any ideas?

Is there any documentation for how the updater works?

I am interested in the ability to make the updater check alternative portable app directories, but unfortunately do not know delphi. However, I do a lot of web development, so was thinking I would take a swing at developing a portable app directory management solution. Then if I can complete that, maybe I will take a swing at learning enough delphi to hack a solution together.

I am assuming I can sniff the traffic and decode the request/response, but was thinking it might be better to build off actual documentation instead.

I've made several portable programs using the PortableApps Launcher Generator. They all work fantastically, EXCEPT that for programs that open files, neither file association nor direct-launch (drag and drop the file onto the .exe) work.

As an example, I have associated .zip files with my 7-zip portable. However, double-clicking on a .zip file only STARTS my 7-zip portable, it does not load the file.

I'm sure that there is some setting somewhere that I'm missing to allow the launcher to pass the parameter to the program, but I can't find it for the life of me.

This is for the portable apps that require a secondary download, but it fails, usually due to firewall issues, but sometimes other issues.

Is it possible to add a copy of the secondary download location to the portable application website as well as the error message window and/or the setup log in the installer(s) when a failure to download occurs?

As some firewalls automatically block websites for Skype, Bittorrent, etc. when the updater runs it will fail when it tries to download the second portion.

Use s-drive is enough to enter in a private cloud operating system. Also, when installing Hackintosh on PC Intel section we use UEFI, then our u-drive it is enough to use the bot, and not inconvenient to install portable system - entirely. We can create at u-drive a number of boot sectors bot and log in to any of the configured in the cloud of our systems

Hi All,

When trying to use some of the Portable applications like Skype i cannot connect to my accounts since my corporate laptop is behind a proxy configuration script.

Now as i was wandering the internet i came across the app: Proxy Get, however it is from 2006 someone posted a patch but i am not able to apply the patch as im a total noob in coding. (Tried for a few hours)

Is there anything avaiable to retrieve the proxy settings for me?

I've just found a rogue directory being left behind by one of my dev tests, so in the next release I'd like to handle it automatically where it already exists on a users PC (plus it is about time I got my head around some NSIS).

The folder in question is %LOCALAPPDATA%\cache\picard, so I need to delete the picard folder if it exists (this I can do), then delete the cache dir if it is now empty (this I am stuck on).

The code so far:

!macro CustomCodePreInstall
   ${If} ${FileExists} "$LOCALAPPDATA\cache\picard\*.*"


How can i deal with this @(Default) Value?
what to take the place of it?