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Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

My program won't seem to launch.

Submitted by BSmitty358 on August 25, 2010 - 7:19pm

I have been working on a simple Flash game player called Game Launcher. All made by me. My problem is that my application launches from explorer itself on my flash drive great... but when I click it on the PA Platform, it disappears and my application does not load.

I would really like to see it at least launch before I perfect the browser platform that runs the .swf game. Everything about the app is below.

App
...Appinfo
......Icons
......Appinfo.ini
......installer.ini
Data
...Games(where the .swf's are stored)
Other
...Help
......Images
...Appsource

Suggestion: include XULRunner in Common Files

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Submitted by computerfreaker on August 25, 2010 - 12:59pm

I know the majority of PortableApps releases don't rely on XULRunner, but some do. Since XULRunner weighs in at a hefty 22MB, wouldn't it be a good idea to create one XULRunner installer, which would put XULRunner in Common Files (like Java Portable does with Java), instead of bundling XULRunner with every app that needs it?
PAL could also get another Activate entry to benefit from this:

[Activate]
XULRunner=true

RegShot on Win7

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Submitted by dagardner on August 24, 2010 - 7:15am

Has anyone here had any trouble with RegShot on Windows 7?

I usually do my PortableApp development on a WinXP VM, but the graphics drivers don't work for some games, so I tried running RegShot on Windows 7 and it stops responding, never to return. I tried running it as administrator, but that didn't fix the problem. Has anyone else had this problem?

Are there any other programs with similar functionality that other people have used that might work on Windows 7?

Thanks,

Andy

Launchergenerator creates crashing files *fixed*

Submitted by masterofthewind on August 19, 2010 - 2:05pm

Hi, I'm new here, and I want to get my development environment portable.
At beginning I wanted to make some "easy" apps portable. For example K-Meleon, CCleaner. So I wrote some easy "launcher.ini" and named them CCleanerPortable.ini and so on. The PortableApps Launcher Generator generated me the required Launcher files. But starting them don't work. They crash immediatly with the error:

.../local settings/Temp/nsa21F.tmp/launcher.ini not found.

I have no idea why. Please help.

Solution: PackageVersion in Appinfo.ini has to be like 1.2.3.4.

EraserDrop - Issue with 'Exit' Parameter on System Shutdown

Submitted by Abraxian on August 18, 2010 - 10:51am

EraserDrop Version: 2.1.0.0
OS: WinXP SP3

Hi,

I think this may be a slight issue with EraserDrop Portable.

Scenario: Use EraserDrop Portable so much that have it to auto-launch on system startup. Have also set a shortcut to it that passes the 'exit' parameter to EraserDrop. Put the shortcut in the Start Menu 'Shutdown' folder - so EraserDrop should be shutdown as the system shuts down. This works fine except for what is happening in the %TEMP% folder.

Free YouTube to MP3 Converter Portable (Help)

Submitted by Grooveshark on August 15, 2010 - 2:30pm

I am trying to make the above software into a portable version (http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-YouTube-to-MP3-Converter.htm). However I am not to sure what to do after steps 11 in the tutorial https://portableapps.com/node/14868
Can anyone tell me what I should be doing here. I have all the recommended software but I seemed to have hit a snag.

Platform with favorites sorting

Submitted by xp314a on August 14, 2010 - 5:42pm

Hello all,

I have modded the platform executable to allow for sorting the favorites. All you have to do is modify the ini file to provide a numeric rank to your favorites entries. The higher the number the higher the position. If the rank is the same, then they are sorted alphabetically.

It also works out that if you give a negative number to a favorites entry, then it will still show up unbolded like the normal apps, and at the bottom of the list. If you don't manually modify the ini, all other functionality is exactly the same as before.

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