Portable App Development

Application: Age of Empires Launcher Portable
Category: Games
Download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/aoelauncher/files/AgeOfEmpiresPortable_...
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Several months ago I posted about VLC Portable leaving stuff in &APPDATA and IIRC the post was ignored, which I took to mean "we can't reproduce it" or "we don't know what to do about it". (Silence is possibly the mother of assumption.)

I have an idea that might lead to a solution or at least an explanation.

Is there any way to make it where eXpresso only associates files on the portable-drive to the designated programs(ie run mkv on vlcportable)? That way, even if eXpresso is running, the hosts files on the hosts computer will still run on their own designated programs(ie run mkv on Media Player Classic).

Often times applications are placed on a removable drive and then needed in another directory. The problem with this is that shortcuts will break when the drive letter changes. One solution is to have several copies of one application scattered throughout your drive, however your data becomes scattered and you lose precious space on your drive. PAM.S.C. aims to provide a better solution. Leave your applications in one directory and create a small app (21 kB) that can be placed anywhere on that drive that then starts your application. It's not your conventional shortcut, it's shortcut2.0!

About the menu disappearing whenever you click on something, can it be set to only do that when opening an application, eg PA.c program?

I find it very annoying to say the least, even if it (the menu) is dramatically faster, more responsive and more intuitive bar this one issue.

Thank you

I'm currently talking to the TinyResMeter developer about making a PAF-compliant build of it.
For those who aren't familiar with TinyResMeter, here's a quote from the homepage:

TinyResMeter is a small tool that displays useful information about system resources in real time, but it also gives much more detail when you right-click on the displayed fields !

I don't know what the specific term would be, but is there any way to block/lock-out the right-click option in the PAP, like adding a script to an ini file or something? After Ive hidden an App on the list, I dont it being unhidden.

I am trying to implement code in a launcher to modify the path to the App directory within an ini. Is there a good example in a launcher or something I could look at/lift out? Below is the ini file.

AppDir = "C:\VTPSUHM\"
MessagesEnabled = 1

I had a question about the PA Platform Menu. Is there anyway to customize the Platform Menu. Like on top of or instead of listing only portable apps, allowing a user to add specific files contained in the drive (whether it be docs, videos, or audio files) to the list. And customizing the Interface color scheme. If no feature like this exists, could one be developed?

I am creating Age of Empires 1 Portable. This is NOT going to be distributed in any way as this is for my personal use. I will be happy to upload the launcher for anyone who wants it.

I have created a launcher for the game. However, when it starts to launch, I get an error: "Could not initialize graphics system. Make sure that your video card and driver are compatible with DirectDraw." I cannot figure out why it gives me this error.