Portable App Development

I'm trying to make a Netbeans portable app and everything looks to be in place using the PortableApps.com Installer but it asking for an exe file in the base folder. I took a look at other working examples and they have an AppNamePortable.exe then the normal AppName.exe in the App/AppName folder. How can I create the AppNamePortable.exe?

Hi, I haven't seen this info anywhere else, does the new 0.90 spec completely replace the 13.3 installer? I think "yes". What about NSIS Portable? I think "maybe", if all you're doing with NSIS is packaging PortableApps, then the NSIS included with 0.90 (it is included, right?) is all you need.

Hello everybody!!!

I found this tutorila [link to illegal website removed by mod JTH. please don't like to sites that host pirated software, open source violations, trademark violations, etc]
And i was wondering if anybody knows any other tutorial a little bit simpler or with more explanation than that one in the link, I'll appreciate any help. Thank u!!!

I am a new guy here and was hoping to find some open source or sample code of a app launcher on the lines of Magic Formation that could be run from USB. I will begin working on my own version but was hoping to find something I could just hook into and start playing.

Thanks

As I've been browsing around through the forums, there are a lot of apps that made it to the dev test level but then just kind of died out and are really out of date. Updating an app is often quite a bit easier than starting from scratch and I know that I often have some time to work on an app, but not enough to start from scratch, and that updating an app often goes quite a bit more quickly than creating a new app, so I had a thought. Perhaps we could get a list together of dead/abandoned dev-test level releases and see if we can get new people to pick them up and bring them up-to-date.

Comments on the new 0.91 release can be found here:
https://portableapps.com/node/19414

I'm creating this topic to get comments from developers, moderators and others on the updated PortableApps.com Format 0.90 and PortableApps.com Installer 0.90.0. Any discussion and contributions can take place here.

All existing bugs from the 0.13.3 release of the installer have been fixed in 0.90.0 based on testing.

I've discovered a bug in the ReadINIStrWithDefault.nsh macro file I wrote that we use with many of our releases. Specifically $0 and $2 are accidentally swapped by the macro. I'm guessing that we haven't noticed it because most of the variables we use are defined and we only use the macro at the very beginning of our launchers before we make use of any of the other variables, but it could be affecting some launchers out there.

Here is the updated macro that fixes the issue:

; ReadINIStrWithDefault 1.1 (2009-05-12)
;
; Substitutes a default value if the INI is undefined

I have Firefox 3.0.10, and i think it has a bug. Sometimes when I change a setting, or delete a bookmark, etc, after I close and open it again, it undoes the changes. Does anyone else have this problem?

I have created my first portable app.
everything seems to work ok but as soon as I compile the script the appName.exe (in my case 'tuxguitarPortable.exe' is not included.

when I install it to the menu it doesn't work and when I extract the content of the installer I only get the 3 folders 'App', 'Data', and "other".

and when I copy the appname.exe in the root folder it works...
howcome the launcher is not included when compiled...

please help me out

thanks in advance

This has become the PortableApps.com Launcher.

Chris's PortableApps.com Launcher is your PAL in making portable apps It is configured with an INI file which goes in App\ChrisLauncher\AppNamePortable.ini, and uses a splash screen in App\ChrisLauncher\AppNamePortable.jpg.