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Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

What's the status of .NET support.

Submitted by JensFF on June 20, 2013 - 12:28pm

I'm currently trying to portablize a .NET application. As we expect .NET to be available on the machines where it will, it doesn't matter that it's not really portable.

At least we want to check for an installed .NET version. So I was happy to find the UsesDotNetVersion parameter in AppInfo.ini. I started the App on a PC without the required .NET and expected to some kind of dialog.

Nothing happened. So here are my questions:

  • Is this feature already implemented?
  • What behaviour is to expect when .NET is missing?

Things I miss in portable apps launcher's rewrite

Submitted by 5keeve on June 19, 2013 - 2:36pm

As you might have seen I'm trying to make jEdit portable.

While I was working on the [FileWriteN] sections I noticed some shortcomings.

I think the only rally valuable type is the "Replace" as all the others simply seem to spit out some, more or less, fixed lines.

What I wanted to do, for example, is to replace something in an XML file.


<PERSPECTIVE>
<BUFFER AUTORELOAD="TRUE" AUTORELOAD_DIALOG="TRUE">F:\PortableApps\jEditPortable\App\AppInfo\Launcher\jEditPortable-5keeve.ini
<VIEW PLAIN="FALSE">
<PANES>

How to make jEdit portable - I'm a bit lost

Submitted by 5keeve on June 17, 2013 - 8:42am

Hi!

I want to make jEdit 5.0 portable. As a starting point I tried this appinfi.ini, created with the PortableApps.com Deelopment Toolkit


[Format]
Type=PortableApps.comFormat
Version=2.0

[Details]
Name=jEdit Portable
AppID=portablejEdit
Publisher=jEdit team & PortableApps.com
Homepage=PortableApps.com/portablejEdit
Category=Accessibility
Description=jEdit is a ___
Language=Multilingual

[License]
Shareable=true
OpenSource=true
Freeware=true
CommercialUse=false

[Version]
PackageVersion=0.0.0.0
DisplayVersion= Development Test 1

[Control]
Icons=1

the PAL does not support Chinese??

Submitted by porpsmhoo on June 15, 2013 - 12:10pm

I am a novice of portableapps,i have a question that puzzled me some days. when I make a software named BaiduReaderLite for portable,I found that portableappsLauncher not have a good support for chinese language,I said that in more detail below,look:

At the Launcher.ini below [RegistryValueWrite] I write this:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\BaiduReaderLite.pdf\shell\用百度阅读器精简版打开\command\=REG_SZ:%PAL:AppDir%\BaiduReaderLite\BaiduReaderLite.exe "%1"

when run the portableapp,I found that it is not exist in the regedit, but a similar section

Running into a slight issue with a customization option for VSubst Portable

Submitted by GamecraftAdmin on June 14, 2013 - 7:59pm

I want to have an easy to find and edit way of changing what the "default" virtual PA.c drive letter is.

Current launcher.ini:
[Environment]
PAL:SubstDrive=B

[Launch]
ProgramExecutable=VSubst\VSubst.exe

[FileWrite1]
Type=INI
File=%PAL:DataDir%\VSubst.ini
Section=Drives
Key=%PAL:SubstDrive%
Value=%PAL:Drive%\

[FileWrite2]
Type=INI
File=%PAL:DataDir%\VSubst.ini
Section=General
Key=AutoStart
Value=False

[FileWrite3]
Type=Replace
File=%PAL:DataDir%\VSubst.ini
Find=%PAL:LastDrive%\
Replace=%PAL:Drive%\

[FilesMove]

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