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Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

Number of appicon files when app has 2 executables?

Submitted by samdev on January 28, 2014 - 4:20pm

I'm currently updating one app that has 2 executable files.

I already seen the docs but cloud find more details info about the appicon file naming and cardinality.

In the docs we have:
[Control]
Icons=2
Start=AppNamePortable.exe
Start1=AppNamePortable.exe
Name1=AppName Portable
Start2=AppNamePortable2.exe
Name2=AppName Portable Other Part

So I assume we need at least 6 files (appicon.ico, appicon_16.png, appicon_32.png, appicon2.ico, appicon2_16.png, appicon2_32.png). But in this case the executable from Name1 will not have an icon on the PortableApp menu.

Multilanguage support

Submitted by samdev on January 27, 2014 - 8:36pm

Is Multilingual still working fine?
Aren't we supposed to choose the app's language on one of the installers steps?

I generated an installer from something like:
[appinfo.ini]
...
Language=Multilingual
...

[installer.ini]
...
[Languages]
ARABIC=true
BELARUSSIAN=true
...

["Launcher".ini]
...
[Language]
Base=%PortableApps.comLocaleName%
DefaultIfNotExists=English

[LanguageStrings]
Arabic=ar
Belarussian=be
...

Is there any way of making an App depend on another?

Submitted by samdev on January 25, 2014 - 1:40pm

Hi all,

Is there any way of making an App depend on another? i.e. a way of making an App installation require some other to be installed, check if they are installed and install them if not present?

I'm talking about SuperPutty as it currently bundles Putty and Kitty with it and as we have them already Portabelized it's not good to be bundling them again inside Superputty. It's also more work to do...

I remember of seeing something like that is the beginning of PortableApps, not sure about the App...

Can anyone help on this?

Tks,

How to copy?

Submitted by tani-page on January 24, 2014 - 9:02am

How to copy the file in PortableApps.comInstallerCustom.nsh?
I want to copy when installer is running,
from "/appnamePortable/app/appname/res/aaa.png" to"/appnamePortable/app/appname/res/menu/bbb.png".
How to write PortableApps.comInstallerCustom.nsh?

RabbitMQ Portable

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Submitted by bglenk on January 16, 2014 - 8:12pm

Hi All,

Anyone working on a portable version of RabbitMQ (Messaging that just works)?

Would require Erlang too. Very interested in a portable version running server as stand alone application instead of windows service. Willing to help out with repackaging and testing. New to portable application building. There are existing windows installation packages out there for setting up rabbitMQ and Erlang.

Firefox + Flash - cleanup after exit

Submitted by lieferant on January 9, 2014 - 9:29am

Hey guys,

I wanted my copy of PortableFirefox to cleanup the leftovers of Flash when quitting Firefox.

According to the launcher.ini documentation I made a FirefoxPortable.ini under FirefoxPortable\App\AppInfo\Launcher and inserted

[DirectoriesCleanupForce]
1=%APPDATA%\Roaming\Macromedia
2=%APPDATA%\Local\Macromedia

However it's not working and the Macromedia folders are still sitting there after I quit Firefox...

Any suggestions?

thanks

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