Portable App Development

The online.paf installer fails to install when internet connection is slow. So these types of installers should give user a option to download the needed file using external download manager by displaying the download link when it fails to download the file. Then user can place the downloaded file next to the paf installer and run it again to install.

I want make my 1st portable app. what the 1st step that i can do, for making my 1st portable app?????

Hi,

I have always loved the Portable Apps, well, at least since I started using :p. But a functionality that I would like is to minimize the application(Portable Apps) to "notification icons" area of Windows. I don't know if already have this feature, but I'll appreciate this functionality.

Best Regards,
Vinicius Monteiro

Good day all

it's awful that portable Google chrome in porrtableapps web site doesn't work in restricted environment like work place.

actually i wounder why all firefox portable versions work in my work place while Google chrome doesn't ???? what's the secret ????

but when i used Cool Novo in my home ( chrome core based ) i liked it so much with all it's awesome features

so would you please support this great browser?

Also would you please try to make all chrome browsers like firefox work in every secured environments ??

appreciate your efforts and time.

Hello all,

I have a database app that I would like to make portable. When it starts, it wants to read its configuration from an *.INI. The location for the *.INI is hard-coded in the single executable, it's always C:\Books-db\bdb.ini. The mapping for the actual database file is in that *.ini. The *.ini gets heavily modified in every session.

What I want to achieve is that I can keep both the *.exe and the database file on the stick. When it launches, I would like to copy the *.ini to C:\, to the folder it wants and after the program is done, I would like to copy the *.ini back.

Hello
I'm make portable installer with online download. Downloadable exe is nullsoft installer. When unpack this, in App\MyApp i'm see $PLUGINSDIR directory but really dont need it. How to skip unpacking this folder?

Hi.
Been using portable apps for over 8 years now, and there are two features that annoy me in the newer releases of the launcher. The first one is inability to run from Program files folder, but that was explained and probably not in the users power to change.
Another one is this popup which appear in newer versions of Windows when you shutdown the PC without exiting the portable app. The next time you start the app, it shows a window saying the app must be closed with one single button OK.

I am trying to make Kindle for PC in portable format and i created successfully the portable launcher and then i run a scan with Regshot to see what changes in the system the program makes. It stores some data in the local AppData folder which i moved with:

[DirectoriesMove]
config=%LOCALAPPDATA%\Amazon.

But i have problem with the registry settings. In the regshot scan log there are three entries related to the registry:

Keys added: 48
Values added: 45
Values modified: 15

I want to change the default save location of a program that i am trying to make portable. This is my first attempt to make a portable program with portableapps.com launcher so i hope someone can help me.

The program saves its settings in C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Local\Just Gestures. I want to make it saves the settings in E:\PortableApps\JustGesturePortable\Data\JustGestureSettings.

This is what i have in launcher.ini:

[Launch]

ProgramExecutable=Just Gestures\JustGestures.exe

[DirectoriesMove]

%APPDATA%\Local\Just Gestures=%PAL:DataDir%\JustGestureSettings

How can I download more than one file with the installer.ini?

I came across with another issue in the installer.ini
I download an example.zip it contains the following structure example123/example.exe.
How can I extract the example.exe to App/example?
If I use
AdvancedExtract1To=App/example
AdvancedExtract1Filter=example123/example.exe

the result is:
App/example/example123/example.exe instead of App/example/example.exe