Portable App Development

Greetings for you all!

I'm trying to create a portable version of Vectir. This is a handy little tool, which allows you to use your Bluetooth enabled mobile phone to remotly control your pc. I want to make the so-called server part of this tool portable.

I've created a launcher for this app, and it launches the app allright, however, the app still creates a directory on my local hard drive to store its settings in it. I tried to figure out how to make the app use the VectirPortable\Data\settings directory, but the more I read, the more confused I got.

Hi friends,
This is my first portable app and hope it does not have any errors in it.
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Hi everybody,
I have a problem with DirectoriesMove. I try to copy a directory from my stick to the hard drive.
It should be MyAppPortable\Data\MyDirectory -> "My Documents"

I tried it as mentioned on the site linked above.

[DirectoriesMove]
MyDirectory=%DOCUMENTS%

But this copies everything from "My Documents" to my stick. As a result I exchanged the two parameters.

[DirectoriesMove]
%DOCUMENTS%=MyDirectory

But now nothing happens...

Hi, ...

OpenTTD v1.1.0

Latest release in stable is v1.1.0 = (x86) (x64)

It have now, an x64 build.

http://www.openttd.org/en/download-stable

I have the old v1.0.5 portable version. Please made v1.1.0 (x86)(x64) portable.

When GoldenDict Portable was first released, a user noted that sound dirs wouldn't work, and a bit of digging showed the problem to be with GoldenDict's built-in portable mode. I posted a RFE on their forum and received the following reply from one of the GoldenDict devs:

Hi there,

Maybe a noobish question to ask but i'm reading some threads here and there but it still doesn't get me my own portable app.

I have installed several tools:
- Launcher
- Installer
- NSIS
- AppCompactor
- Development Tool kit
- Templates

But then what?
I have run all tools but i'm still stuck with an exe that i would like to have portable.

Isn't there a short tutorial guide on how to create your own portable app from scratch with a fresh downloaded exe ?

Hi everybody,

First, I want to thank all of you for making me keep trying new things without worrying about my PC's stability... thank you

I just decided to join this community and will help as much as I can!
So I start it easy! Fofix is already portable itself (I'm not really a gamer but played this one for few days and liked it),
so I just had to make a little launcher.ini to make it fully portable

(I think!)

Some help needed please:

I noticed that the people from the PDF Toolkit have taken up developments again and issued new releases of their command-line tool.
Could this be a cue for either Angus Johnson or people from PortableApps to consider further improving their excellent PDF-splitter-joiner-rotator-whathnot tool?

Angus does not provide contact details on his homepage, so I thought maybe PortableApps knows how to contact him.
Cheers,
Stephan

Hello to All:

After releasing final version of Firefox 4.0, Mozilla has started working on Firefox 4.2 version and has released the first preview build of Alpha 1.

Download Link:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-ce...

Greetings from Mexico.

For me, the PA platform is fantastic and unprecedented for Windows!
I have been longing for a unified platform like for Linux. This is it!

I wish it could cover more apps, especially those made portable already
by distributors, such as Jdownloader, DC++. PA does not need to
repack or host a copy for downloading, but need to manage the update
info just like the others. I think it is much easier to get agreement with
distributors. Thanks a million!