Portable App Development

I have an old program that I am trying to make portable for personal use. The program installs some files to the system32 directory, the fonts directory and puts an ini in the windows folder.

This is my first time creating a portable app, so forgive me if this is posted somewhere obvious, but how can you handle these issues - how can you redirect the launcher so that it looks for those sys32 files and fonts in the portable directory and not on the computer?

Hi there, am wondering what software and version of software I should get so I can begin to develop a database application to be placed on several portable devices such as a USB flash drive or maybe to be used on cellphones. Please help.

Is there a certain reason why I cannot search with Google from Google Chrome? I have to use Ask to search things. Google doesn't work with any of my portable browsers but Firefox. With Chrome and Opera, the browser, after my clicking "Search," says it is "sending request" and sits there forever, or until I click on some link or type in a different web address. I would really like to use Chrome, but cannot without using it's search engine (I guess I'm just picky like that). Would it help if I was to tell you any specifics?

Hack: I hacked some code into the EraserDrop v2.1 source to include the ability to wipe the freespace of network devices. This only works if the UNC share using the device name (or even better the IP number and share name) are mapped to a drive letter in Windows. (ex: \\MyNAS\MyShare or \\192.169.1.101\MyShare mapped to z:)

Patch (diff) from the 2.1.0.0 source using WinMergePortable:

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> 	; and get network storage devices mapped to a drive letter
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> 	Local $drivesnet = DriveGetDrive("NETWORK")
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> 		Next
> 	EndIf

I am making a portable app in BASIC, but how do you make the splash screen come up???
Thank you for your help.

Well, I've wondered about this for awhile... what do the different release types mean?
In other words, how are development tests different from prereleases? And how do you know when something's ready to become official?

Hi I've been wondering if using Chris's launcher is still not supported, I'd like to put out some launchers and well, it's the easiest way for me to do it since I'd rather focus on learning another programming language right now (working on a game heh, I'm doing C# but I KNOW I should be doing C++ for portability and abscence of any needed .NET or any other dependencies that you need to install...it's just easier to use XNA studio, and I don't have a lot of time to program... I'm CRAZY!)

Anyway as I was saying, yeah, if I use Chris's launcher will it be kept from going official?

First of all - Hello - this is my first post on the forum. Hopefully not the last.

I would like to now, is there any simple way of changing a name of existing portable app. For instance - portablefirefox.exe runs a process firefox.exe. That's obvious. But I would like to change names of this processes. Of course, simple change the name of firefox.exe will couse that portablefirefox.exe won't find and won't run an app.

Thanks in advance,

goto206

I'm using FindProc in the CustomCodePostInstall macro in PortableApps.comInstallerCustom.nsh but it's always returning "0" (Process was not found). Is there a reason why this shouldn't work? Everything compiles ok (no errors). The path is correct and the process is running. Honest

Hi All!

Just wanted to post our first attempt at making our free driver updater portable:
http://www.devicedoctor.com/device-doctor-portable.php

It scans any computer for updated drivers and will download the ones you want from our fast servers. It's completely free with no adware.

We haven't done a portable version before but I hope it's good enough to be added to PortableApps.

Thanks,

Collin