Portable App Development

CppCheck saves application paths in the registry as a REG_MULTI_SZ, which is saved to the .reg file in hex.

Example line from CppCheck.reg file (saved from launcher):

"Application paths"=hex(7):22,00,43,00,3a,00,5c,00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,67,00,72,\
  00,61,00,6d,00,20,00,46,00,69,00,6c,00,65,00,73,00,20,00,28,00,78,00,38,00,\
  36,00,29,00,5c,00,4e,00,6f,00,74,00,65,00,70,00,61,00,64,00,2b,00,2b,00,5c,\
  00,6e,00,6f,00,74,00,65,00,70,00,61,00,64,00,2b,00,2b,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,\
  65,00,22,00,00,00,00,00

Working on porting a java app.
Filesystem and Registry are clean apart from said.
In the manual under "CleanTemp" we are told this should not happen; Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?(Note: Atm I'm cleaning it using [DirectoriesCleanupForce])

Here is my launcher.ini:

[Launch]
ProgramExecutable=PhpStorm\bin\PhpStorm.exe
DirectoryMoveOK=yes
RunAsAdmin = force

[FileWrite1]
Type=ConfigWrite
File=%PAL:AppDir%\PhpStorm\bin\idea.properties
Entry=idea.config.path=


I have seen where other people have changed the Title graphics to their own. How can this be done. I see how to change theme, but no the "portableapps.com" title.

Anyone?

I have an app that requires a compatibility settings under Windows 7. In the registry, the setting is saved under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers as "C:\PortableApps\MyApp\App\MyApp.exe=REG_SZ:DISABLETHEMES". The problem is that the app path is part of the registry key name, and I can't find a way to set that and clean it up in Launcher.ini.

I've tried:

[RegistryValueWrite]
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers\%PAL:AppDir%=REG_SZ:DISABLETHEMES

Based on my previous Test Release Comment Generator, I've updated its backend and added a Beta Testing post generator to my web tools. Both tools now use an INI file to store data.

Also, I wanted some feedback on the example launcher.ini I'm working on.

I need to move a folder in and out of %APPDATA% so I have this in the launcher INI:

[DirectoriesMove]
folder=%APPDATA%\folder

The folder is moving fine but if there's a local one present it isn't backed up.

If I debug the launcher I'm getting the ${DebugMsg} "Matching directories for $1 discovered, deleting $0" message instead of ${DebugMsg} "Backing up $4 to $4.BackupBy$AppID" message that I would expect.

I also used this with EAC:

[DirectoriesMove]
EAC=%APPDATA%\EAC
AccurateRip=%APPDATA%\AccurateRip

I am using 5PCs in paralell to work on. On all PCs the Data is kept in sync by Dropbox.
I use 3 PortableApps installation on all PCs located in the Dropbox-folder.
* There is one PA installation with Apps specific for this PC.
* There is one PA kept in sync on all PCs to have setups off Apps like FileZilla accessible on all PCs
* There is a PA for testing Apps-usability also kept in sync on all PCs

I am working with PA to have the Apps separated from the OS.

Since I am using 3 or more PA-Plattforms on one PC I would like to have the menus personalized.

I would like to make a portable app launcher that will NOT have the Minecraft data built in, but will do a simple temporary change of the %APPDATA% variable to make Minecraft store all of its data on the portable device. I can set up a whole batch file to do it all, without a GUI and simple backup on hard drive, (possibly) I just need someone to help me set up a PortableApps launcher/installer. Does anybody have any ideas/ways you can help to get this project DONE???

THIS POST WILL BE ADDED TO LATER!!!

Hi,
I've been trying to create portable version of a popular IDE.
I assembled all the data on the PortableApps template, and ran the PortableApps.com Launcher, App Compacter and Installer over top of it.
Unfortunetely, it is leaving data behind - when I switch computers it resets to the default settings, and when I return to a computer I have previously used with the portable version it restores the settings.

What am I doing wrong?

Adopted by comparing the two snapshots performed with Regshot I found out, that the application (hereinafter shortly called as App) has created some registry entries and folders in the user account. Now I make an "AppPortable.paf.exe" file, by which these registry entries and folders are not stored permanently on the local host computer. These steps I like to call as the first test phase.