Portable App Development

I've thought again about using of the PortableApps.com AppCompactor. My question concerns the exact time using this program. Should PortableApps.com AppCompactor primarily used then, after a portable program is installed on an USB flash drive? Or is it also conceivable, that this program can be applied after using the PortableApps.com launcher but before using the PortableApps.com Installer?

I hope this is the correct place for this. I've repackaged the Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition version 10 installer with the changes necessary for the ESR release.

How does one create an installer that will guarantee that no matter where a user chooses to save file to the files do not get removed during installation of a new build?

I like portable apps from portableapps.com.
And i want to make the portable app like them.
For example Auto Cad 2004.
Show me the way to make it,thanks everybody.
To your success!

Hi everyone,

I wanted to make a portable version of a game, for personal use only, since I bought the game myself. (Is this allowed?)
I extracted the installer, got all the files, they work, run, do everything I want to when ran from any location.

Now i wanted to make this little game portable. I made the *gamenameportable*launcher.ini. (As you can see I left out the name of the game, I wasn't sure if I was allowed to do this in the first place.)

[Launch]
AppName=*gamename*Portable
ProgramExecutable=*gamename*\*gamename*.exe
LaunchAppAfterSplash=true

In response to the issue raised here, regarding the installer deleting the App\AppName directory when downloading a file is unsuccessful, I decided to see if I could patch it.

I think I might have managed to get it to work. Please test extensively.

I have tested with a few different scenarios, and my computer hasn't blown up yet, so that's a good sign.

With that said, I'm not sure if this has caused any other issues.

John, in particular, since this is your app, please verify if this does indeed work without causing further harm.

Is the following procedure applicable for debugging the launcher?

1. Creation of the Directory and File Layout according to the instructions on the website PortableApps.com Format™ 2.0 (2011-11-13)
2. Creation of a file Dubug.nsh in the folder App\AppInfo\Launcher. In this file I write as example the following line of code: !define DEBUG_ALL
3. I start the PortableApps.com Launcher Generator and generate the appropriate launcher

Hi all,
have you already planned the udpate of Portable Seamonkey?
actually 2.7 is available on Mozilla FTP servers.
TIA for your time and great job.

I was working on making FrostWire Portable but the launcher don't work. I read the instructions (on this site) on making java apps portable, but the app won't load. The only thing it does is show the splash screen.

Okay so here's the deal. I work on a program called MASGAU (http://masgau.org) that is basically a glorified backup program. I've had some requests to make a PortableApps version, so I'm giving it a swing. Things have been going okay, but while testing it I ran into an issue today. MASGAU detects if a file belongs to a particular user by way of checking if it is in a subfolder of that user's home folder (ownership=location as far as MASGAU is concerned).