Portable App Development

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.

Hello,
i found this thread here at Portableapps.com for making Portable PS CS2 : https://portableapps.com/node/1426 and as i browsed through GOOGLE i came across a number of TUTS with the same method/procedure. But i couldn't find any response from some who actually was able to make one with the steps outline.
So i guess i m not the only one having trouble with the TUT, i followed everything in the TUT but i still keep getting errors, PS CS2 simply wont open.:?

Hey everyone.
Here is one more loader for Google Chromium browser
https://docs.google.com/uc?id=0BwuaD-SluFUUMWEyZDMzMWEtOGY1Ni00NmM4LWIwM...
that can be used for Google chrome as well

Instructions:
1. take latest chromium build here
http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-xp/
2. extract chrome-win32.zip in Application folder
make sure that path to chrome.exe is
Application\chrome.exe
and not
Application\chrome-win32\chrome.exe

I have packaged XML Copy Editor for use with the PortableApps Platform. Please let me know what you think and if there are any improvements that are needed.

Category: Development

Description: XML Copy Editor is a fast, free, validating XML editor.

Features:

• DTD/XML Schema/RELAX NG validation
• XSLT
• XPath
• Pretty-printing
• Syntax highlighting
• Folding
• Tag completion
• Tag locking
• Tag-free editing
• Spelling and style check

Hi!

I want to start Google Chrome with the command --proxy-server=localhost:8080. I read that it is possible to include this command in the exe file. But trying to do this since a couple of hours. Is there any tutorial or something similar?

Hello folks,
i really became interested in this Forum since i knew that how much a Portable Application can save time and increase Productivity:
U see i wanted to make a Portable Photoshop CS2, and i ended in this topic, https://portableapps.com/node/1426 although i hvn't followed it yet , busy writing this.
: i want to make a NSIS installer, and i m having a hard time understanding and making a NSIS script and making an Installer.

Per the forum thread here, I've put together a portable app package of a portable desktop search appliance (like windows desktop search or google desktop search) that indexes text inside files on the portable drive.
I didn't make the actual search appliance, I just made it portable (with the original developer's permission)
You can download and try it out here
Let me know what you think,

Using the installer 1.02, the files in that should go in the Data directory don't get put there when the portable app is installed.