Portable App Development

Now Portable Apps finally has program groups, like [illegal suite], and is becoming a lot more attractive and useful.

But we need detailed instructions on how to add an application that is not offered by Portable Apps, but found elsewhere.

How can such an application be added, and to a specified program group (and not just generally)?

How can a new program group me set up?

How can applications be moved from one program group to another (e.g., one created new)?

I'm just wondering if before launching the app the launcher cold read the appinfo.ini and if a version of .NET is required, determine whether the correct version is installed, and either warn the user and exit, or then run the app.

WinDirStat isn't appearing within the latest PAM PR. I suspect this is because it's PAF 1.0. Can anyone verify this?

I've tried compiling a portable version of a game, and all seems to work fine until I launch the portable launcher.

When I start the launcher the screen flickers as though it's changing the resolution as it should, then it just quits and I'm presented with the following error message:

"Sorry, unable to find required files to run. Please check your working directory or reinstall the game."

It also creates a file in the directory called gamenamestatus.dx9
(substitute "gamename" with the game's actual name.)

Any ideas?

The Portable App - On-Screen Keyboard and the KeePass On-Screen Keyboard plugin both suffer the same issue when run from any 64 bit Windows 7 PC I have tried them on. Both programs work fine in 32 bit XP and 32 bit win 7.

This is what I found.

Error when opening On-Screen keyboard in windows 7 - "Could not start On-Screen keyboard" (Visual Basic Development Center)
This is an issue with 64-bit OS, it affects any 64-bit version of Windows.

Hi,

I made my application in accordance with PortableApp rules.
How can I make it updateable via the platform?

With best regards,

Andrei

Looking at the help.html file for the current set of portable freeware, some, maybe all, contain the following line:

This software is OSI Certified Open Source Software. OSI Certified is a certification mark of the Open Source Initiative.

The problem with that is that only the launcher is OS, the app itself is freeware, and while help.html does contain information relating to the launcher as well, it is generally more about the packaged app, thus making this misleading.

It might be worth changing this line for freeware apps to something more like:

To the developers of PAL,

I wanted to ask, since there is no mention of it in the V2.2 release notes, if you could please give me some pointers how I might solve this myself. I don't mind getting my hands a little dirty to at least work around this issue.

I posted my request here, instead of privately, so that others might benefit also.

Thanks,

Ambimind

Hi everyone.

I'm tying to make a portableapp. It's main program is stored in two directories: "c:\Program Files\AppName" and "c:\Program Files\Common Files\AppName"(not java or other plugin). So how do I handle this?

I put "c:\Program Files\AppName" into "App\Appname". Put "c:\Program Files\Common Files\AppName" into "App\DefaultData\Common Files\AppName" and wrote this in launch.ini:

Common Files\AppName=%CommonProgramFiles%\AppName

When trying to run ipconfig outside of the system32 directory on windows 7 I find that it doesn't work, so I came up with the idea that creating it as a portable app may help me run ipconfig outside of system32.
Since this is a program that is already installed on the system I am unable to use the regshot to see what it uses.
I was wondering if anyone could give me some advice on this, or if this will even work?

Thanks