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Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

Language Variable Documentation

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Submitted by dagardner on June 8, 2010 - 9:39am

Is there documentation that lists all of the language variables for the PortableApps platform? The best I was able to find was Chris Morgan post in Language Environment Variables, but doesn't have all of the languages and it is more than a year old, so I wasn't sure if something had changed.

I'm working on Zekr Portable, and it requires the languages to be specified in a format similar to en_US, de_DE, fr_FR, etc. I don't now if that is readily available from the platform, or if I will have to parse it myself for the available languages.

[Fixed] PAI installing to path containing foreign characters

Submitted by Mark Sikkema on June 5, 2010 - 5:52am

As discussed yesterday in irc, the new PA.cInstaller 2.0 still has a problem for online installing to a path containing foreign characters.

One way to solve it was to run 7z.exe from $PLUGINSDIR, but this could potentially still give a problem if %USERPROFILE% contains foreign characters as well.

After some more investigation I found out that 7z.exe v9.14 beta also solves the problem. And, because this is not an issue for 99% of the users, probably it is better to wait for v9.14 to become stable and use that, before to change the installer script !

Autorun USB in Windows 7

Submitted by aaaltd140 on June 4, 2010 - 2:32pm

Hi everyone,

I need some help! I'm trying make a USB drive auto run a website link in Windows 7. I know this option has been removed in W7. But I want to at least have a pop up window that automatically appears when the USB is inserted and have the user the option to click on the stored URL without having to alter any setting on their PC. Is this at all possible?

Handling registry entries

Submitted by shanet on June 3, 2010 - 6:59am

Hey everyone,

I am almost finished with my BumpTop Portable edition, and just need to deal with the registry settings.

Here's what I got from regfromapp portable:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
Settings\ZoneMap]
"UNCAsIntranet"=dword:00000000
"AutoDetect"=dword:00000001

This should be in a .reg file, am I correct?
Also, where would I put this file and how would I direct the launcher to this registry file?

All help appreciated,
shanet

Bumptop Portable

Submitted by shanet on May 28, 2010 - 2:24pm

Hey every1

I've finally got my launcher working for bumptop portable, but I face a problem. I need the appdata from "%USERPROFILE%\Appdata\Roaming\Bump Technologies Inc.\" to be run from "BumptopPortable\Data\appdata", however I don't know how to change the environmental settings in the executable.

If I am doing the wrong thing, could anyone point me in the right direction? Is there any *.ini files I need to make?

Thanks heaps
shanet ☻

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Development Version's Have Broken Links

Submitted by tukbuild on May 25, 2010 - 10:31am

Why do many of the development versions have broken links, I can't test them if I can't download them. I do understand that the one guy had his sites attacked by some hackers, which is messed up. I hate hackers they mess things up for everyone then people like us suffer the consequences.

I guess I sound like a prick but that isn't what I intended, I really am a nice guy. I just hope that somebody had downloaded the development versions of the apps before the links were broken and could share them with me, especially for GNU IceCat Portable, and EyeOS if that is possible.

Complete Step-by-Step Tutorial Required

Submitted by darshanm on May 15, 2010 - 11:24am

Can someone please give me a complete step by step tutorial to build a portable application using NSIS. I know how to get all the program files and the registry entries which the program uses but want to know in detail how create and compile the NSIS script and create a launcher using the PortableApps.comLauncherGenerator.

I have searched a lot over the internet and also in these forums but none of the tutorials are satisfactory. I also didn't understand the content given in the development section of this website.

New Application "ManaPortable"

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Submitted by iceslice on May 12, 2010 - 7:11am

Hi,
I have ported the Mana client from http://www.manasource.org & another similar game client from http://tmw.cetki.com/4144 to PortableApps.com format

I have uploaded the installer at http://manaportable.googlecode.com . Icons & splash screen yet need be upgraded. Otherwise it's working fine.
I would be grateful if it's tested, constructively criticized or so. Hoping for an initiative from the admin bodies to try to release it officially in the games-app directory of this website.

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