Portable App Development

Since PAL-based launchers are the preferred way to develop apps, I suggest we change step 4 on this page to refer to PAL, rather than referring to coding directly in NSIS.

I would like to customize the installer. During the installation of the app should be displayed a custom page to the user. This custom installer page should contain a special titel and an information for the user. Can someone offer me instructions or the code, so that I am able to realize that feature?

Trying to create different profile for my explorer++ application.
The config.xml can be successfully moved.
But when the application terminates, a folder %COMPUTERNAME% is created under Profile.

[Launch]
ProgramExecutable=Explorer++\Explorer++.exe
DirectoryMoveOK=yes
SingleAppInstance=true

[FilesMove]
Profile\%COMPUTERNAME%\config.xml=%PAL:AppDir%\Explorer++

[FileWrite1]
Type=Replace
File=%PAL:DataDir%\Profile\%COMPUTERNAME%\config.xml
Find=%PAL:LastDrive%%PAL:LastPackagePartialDir%
Replace=%PAL:Drive%%PAL:PackagePartialDir%

[FileWrite2]
Type=Replace

I've thought again about using of the PortableApps.com AppCompactor. My question concerns the exact time using this program. Should PortableApps.com AppCompactor primarily used then, after a portable program is installed on an USB flash drive? Or is it also conceivable, that this program can be applied after using the PortableApps.com launcher but before using the PortableApps.com Installer?

I hope this is the correct place for this. I've repackaged the Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition version 10 installer with the changes necessary for the ESR release.

How does one create an installer that will guarantee that no matter where a user chooses to save file to the files do not get removed during installation of a new build?

I like portable apps from portableapps.com.
And i want to make the portable app like them.
For example Auto Cad 2004.
Show me the way to make it,thanks everybody.
To your success!

Hi everyone,

I wanted to make a portable version of a game, for personal use only, since I bought the game myself. (Is this allowed?)
I extracted the installer, got all the files, they work, run, do everything I want to when ran from any location.

Now i wanted to make this little game portable. I made the *gamenameportable*launcher.ini. (As you can see I left out the name of the game, I wasn't sure if I was allowed to do this in the first place.)

[Launch]
AppName=*gamename*Portable
ProgramExecutable=*gamename*\*gamename*.exe
LaunchAppAfterSplash=true

In response to the issue raised here, regarding the installer deleting the App\AppName directory when downloading a file is unsuccessful, I decided to see if I could patch it.

I think I might have managed to get it to work. Please test extensively.

I have tested with a few different scenarios, and my computer hasn't blown up yet, so that's a good sign.

With that said, I'm not sure if this has caused any other issues.

John, in particular, since this is your app, please verify if this does indeed work without causing further harm.

Is the following procedure applicable for debugging the launcher?

1. Creation of the Directory and File Layout according to the instructions on the website PortableApps.com Format™ 2.0 (2011-11-13)
2. Creation of a file Dubug.nsh in the folder App\AppInfo\Launcher. In this file I write as example the following line of code: !define DEBUG_ALL
3. I start the PortableApps.com Launcher Generator and generate the appropriate launcher