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Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

Registry Question

Submitted by DerekMaciel on June 13, 2009 - 8:14pm

Okay so I was thinking of making AIM Lite portable.* I thought of making it for PortableApps because using Package Factory (or something like that) I got the program to run on my U3 Powered flash drive. The program runs perfectly, but the only "problem" I encountered is that if you click "Remember Me" or "Save Password", it will write to the Registry. Besides that, it doesn't use the Registry at all. Anyone know how to get around this** or if I don't need to bother with it at all?

*Yes, I know Pidgen can sign onto AIM.

Unable to make plugin installer using Installer 0.91.3

Submitted by xuesheng on June 13, 2009 - 1:22pm

When I try to use Installer 0.91.3 to make a plugin installer I get this error message

ERROR: AppInfo.ini - Control - Start is missing.

According to Section 6 of PortableApps.com Format0.91 (2009-06-11) "The App\AppInfo directory should be empty" so why is the compiler complaining it cannot find that file?

My plugininstaller.ini file is in Other\Source and App\AppInfo is empty.

NSIS 2.45

Submitted by prapper on June 13, 2009 - 7:34am

As the new version includes some Win7 bug fixes, does that mean we still need to use this?

I know it's marked as fixed over at NSIS but I was just wondering what the word was here.

How to make a PortableApp, my version

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Submitted by gluxon on June 12, 2009 - 1:06am

With the new installer, AppCompactor, and menu... we've been getting a lot of people willing to take their time and make PortableApps for the site. As I already know, OliverK made another "Making a PortableApp Guerilla field" or something like that. However, I think it's also a little confusing. I didn't understand any of it and had to had Kevin Porter translate it into human for me when I got here almost a year ago. So I'll be targeting this at somebody with no technology background.

Program running from launcher directory

Submitted by LinkSlayer64 on June 11, 2009 - 8:19am

Ok, today I have yet another question, although I am finally learning! I have successfully made an application portable using Chris's Launcher, ePSXe, a very nice PSX emulator, now, it is almost portable. The problem I am having is this: ePSXe loads all it's plugins based off the directory from where it is running
ePSXePortable---launcher
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|--app
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|--ePSXe-
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|-bios
|-plugins
|-memcards (list continues)

Custom icons through resource editor?

Submitted by cristoslc on June 10, 2009 - 3:28pm

I was attempting to use XN Resource Editor (http://www.wilsonc.demon.co.uk/d10resourceeditor.htm) to modify the icon for the Portable Firefox 3.5b4 app on my local machine. I was able to embed a new icon group, and delete the old group, using XN Resource Editor. Unfortunately, the program would not launch afterwards (NSIS error, "Installer integrity check failed").

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