Portable App Development

I've been working on an installer and I keep running into a problem. An additional file needs to be downloaded in order for the program to work properly. The file downloads fine, but upon extraction, installation fails with the following:

ERROR: (d3dx9_42.zip > App\VBA-M)

Any ideas?

I really love the Autostart option that you can set on applications, but sometimes I just want to quickly check my email and log off of a computer. So, it would be great if I can have the option of using Autostart or a button on the menu that starts a set group of applications, (and I know this second part is probably not doable or even unsafe, but let me know if it's possible to have a button that closes all applications that is opened by the PortableApps menu).

thanks for the great work.

Hi Everybody,

I'm trying to create a PortableApp-Suite for our little company. I've installed all the Applications we need and now I got a question.

Is it possible to create a "Splash-Screen" for de PortableApps.com Launcher? I'm Looking for a possibility to show a Splash-Screen with our Companys logo (including the PortableApps logo) which ist starting BEFORE the App-Menu starts.

Can someone help me?

Thanks!

I'm working on qBittorrent Portable, and run into a bit of a problem with registry values.

There are a number of registry values that qBittorrent uses for associating .torrent and Magnet files with qBittorrent, but these values aren't written as I would typically expect. For instance it writes to: HKCU\Software\Classes\.torrent/Default where the key is HKCU\Software\Classes value name is .torrent/Default. I've submitted a bug report, and I hope that they will fix it in the future, but I would like to get a workaround in the mean time.

Is it just me or does the online installer leave the downloaded file behind inside my "temporary internet files"-folder (=internet explorer cache)?
I believe its a plugin thing as the online updater built into the latest beta (5) of the Menu does the same.

I understand this isnt "personal information" left behind, but it would be cool if this could be fixed anyhow.

I have created a PortableApps.com Format launcher for Game Maker 8.
It can be downloaded here http://www.box.net/shared/7hiqcx9kry
Please note that this package does not include the atuall Game Maker 8 files.
To use this with game Maker 8, follow these steps.
1) Us the above PortableApps.com Installer
2) Download and install Game Maker 8
3) Go to the directory where you installed it, highlight all the files by click&drag
4) Right-click>>copy those files, then go to the following folder and right-click>>paste once you are there

I know the installer subtracts the deleted App folder in its space calculation and refuses to run if there isnt enough space available. However, today I updated my Turborisk on my 1 gb drive and it said:

Space required: 27.0 MB
Space available: 18.2 MB

It installed correctly after I hit Install but it still looked weird to me. Internally, the numbers must add up as it didnt gave me a "not enough space on drive"-warning. Maybe there is something one could do to display the numbers correctly?

Currently the PortableApps.com Launcher uses the Data\settings directory for two things; the AppNamePortableSettings.ini file and any registry files.

In the current situation, a [DirectoriesMove] line should not be used to move the settings directory because [RegistryKeys] is parsed later, and registry files are in Data\settings, so if you move it they aren't there and no settings will be loaded.

There are two ways of fixing this:

I'm been wondering this for a while, is there a reason why we don't use Symbolic Links for our launchers?

It would help a lot in terms of speed when using the rename + copy, copy again + rename method most of our launchers use.

Instead of copying once, and copying again, create a symbolic link and remove it.

Hi!

First I'd like to say Thanks for the Excellent work you all have done!

(I don't know if this is the right place to ask or if it has already been asked. I searched quite a bit.)

I'd like to "suggest" that instead of reading all the directories for apps at launch time, could a "list" of apps be loaded from a manifest type of file?
This file would contain all the same information that the launcher scans for upon startup.

When things get stale you could update it by selecting Update App List from the Manage Apps menu. Just like Update Icons.