Portable App Development

How do I properly use the [FileWriteN] function?
I can't seem to figure it out, not even after reading the manual's page on it.
PLEASE HELP ME!

I've been working on an installer and I keep running into a problem. An additional file needs to be downloaded in order for the program to work properly. The file downloads fine, but upon extraction, installation fails with the following:

ERROR: (d3dx9_42.zip > App\VBA-M)

Any ideas?

I really love the Autostart option that you can set on applications, but sometimes I just want to quickly check my email and log off of a computer. So, it would be great if I can have the option of using Autostart or a button on the menu that starts a set group of applications, (and I know this second part is probably not doable or even unsafe, but let me know if it's possible to have a button that closes all applications that is opened by the PortableApps menu).

thanks for the great work.

Hi Everybody,

I'm trying to create a PortableApp-Suite for our little company. I've installed all the Applications we need and now I got a question.

Is it possible to create a "Splash-Screen" for de PortableApps.com Launcher? I'm Looking for a possibility to show a Splash-Screen with our Companys logo (including the PortableApps logo) which ist starting BEFORE the App-Menu starts.

Can someone help me?

Thanks!

I'm working on qBittorrent Portable, and run into a bit of a problem with registry values.

There are a number of registry values that qBittorrent uses for associating .torrent and Magnet files with qBittorrent, but these values aren't written as I would typically expect. For instance it writes to: HKCU\Software\Classes\.torrent/Default where the key is HKCU\Software\Classes value name is .torrent/Default. I've submitted a bug report, and I hope that they will fix it in the future, but I would like to get a workaround in the mean time.

Is it just me or does the online installer leave the downloaded file behind inside my "temporary internet files"-folder (=internet explorer cache)?
I believe its a plugin thing as the online updater built into the latest beta (5) of the Menu does the same.

I understand this isnt "personal information" left behind, but it would be cool if this could be fixed anyhow.

I have created a PortableApps.com Format launcher for Game Maker 8.
It can be downloaded here http://www.box.net/shared/7hiqcx9kry
Please note that this package does not include the atuall Game Maker 8 files.
To use this with game Maker 8, follow these steps.
1) Us the above PortableApps.com Installer
2) Download and install Game Maker 8
3) Go to the directory where you installed it, highlight all the files by click&drag
4) Right-click>>copy those files, then go to the following folder and right-click>>paste once you are there

I know the installer subtracts the deleted App folder in its space calculation and refuses to run if there isnt enough space available. However, today I updated my Turborisk on my 1 gb drive and it said:

Space required: 27.0 MB
Space available: 18.2 MB

It installed correctly after I hit Install but it still looked weird to me. Internally, the numbers must add up as it didnt gave me a "not enough space on drive"-warning. Maybe there is something one could do to display the numbers correctly?

Currently the PortableApps.com Launcher uses the Data\settings directory for two things; the AppNamePortableSettings.ini file and any registry files.

In the current situation, a [DirectoriesMove] line should not be used to move the settings directory because [RegistryKeys] is parsed later, and registry files are in Data\settings, so if you move it they aren't there and no settings will be loaded.

There are two ways of fixing this:

I'm been wondering this for a while, is there a reason why we don't use Symbolic Links for our launchers?

It would help a lot in terms of speed when using the rename + copy, copy again + rename method most of our launchers use.

Instead of copying once, and copying again, create a symbolic link and remove it.