Portable App Development

Hello,

I'm trying to create a portable app. I was able to create a launcher and an installer for the app. Running the app itself works fine. Running the launcher works fine. When I try to run the app from the PA.C platform, however, absolutely nothing seems to happen. Looking at Process Explorer, I didn't see any process being started. I have tried renaming the entry and removing and reconnecting the USB device. Really not sure why it doesn't do anything. :s

Is it possible to set up the installer.ini so that optionally replaces files in a certain location?

There is an issue with the latest release of Hedgewars Portable where, for some video cards, some of the files need to be replaced. Right now, I include the latest and greatest in the installer, with a note in the forum thread about what to do if you have the error, but I would like to roll the workaround into the installer, if possible.

I started this, to see if it's help full to have a topic specially dedicated to 'PortableApps.comLauncherCustom.nsh' codes, unicode plug-ins and other useful scripts. Hopefully this could help us not re-inventing the wheel every time custom code is needed, or having to search all over the web for a unicode plug-in. If you're willing to contribute some code, I think it would be good practice to code it in a way it's useful for several PA's and to have the custom code make use of the launcher.ini settings.

Hi all!,
can you please take a look at this error that I keep getting and tell me what
I'm doing wrong please.

MakeNSIS v2.46-Unicode - Copyright 1995-2009 Contributors
See the file COPYING for license details.
Credits can be found in the Users Manual.

Processing config: 
Processing plugin dlls: "R:\PortableApps\PortableApps.comInstaller\App\nsis\Plugins\*.dll"
 - ExecDos::exec
 - ExecDos::isdone
 - ExecDos::wait
 - FindProcDLL::FindProc
 - InstallOptions::dialog
 - InstallOptions::initDialog
 - InstallOptions::show
 - LangDLL::LangDialog
 - MoreInfo::GetComments

Hello,

Not a forum specifically for this topic so I'll
try to post it here.

Could the PortableApps.com website enable RSS blog
comments to be sent with normal RSS feeds ? I have
heard this was a one click option. Then I could read
the forum selected as well as the comments, if I enable
that option on my side, with my RSS reader offline.

Thank You,

Patrick013

is this right?
ALLUSERSPROFILE

in XP its C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
and in vista its C:\ProgramData

i think this is wrong cause when i open a file in vista it works fine but when i open the same file in XP it needs to be in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data, so i added "\Application Data" like this "&ALLUSERSPROFILE&\Application Data" in move directories and opened it in xp it works fine but in vista it turns out like this C:\ProgramData\Application Data

After updating PortableApps.comLauncher_2.0_Release_Candidate_2.paf to PortableApps.comLauncher_2.0.0.paf and UnicodeNSISPortable_2.46_Developement_test_5_online.paf to NSISPortable_2.46_Rev_2_English.paf, I get the following error when trying to generate a launcher:

IfFileExists: "$1\PortableApps.com\PortableAppsPlatform.exe" ? : _CFPSDStackEnd
Invalid command: MoreInfo::GetProductName
Error in macro CheckForPlatformSplashDisable on macroline 16
Error in macro SplashScreen.nsh_Init on macroline 5
Error in macro RunSegment on macroline 12

Hello,

How can I make translation of portablle applications on Croatin language?

Thank you

The main problem inhibiting me from submitting Freecol Portable as a Pre-Release right now, is the problem of language switching.

Here's an explanation:

Freecol, in order to determine language for launch, looks at its main option file, and launches based on that. If it's set to automatic or not set, it determines language based on the Java locale.

The problem with updating the language in the option file is that Freecol, when saving options, does not save options with newlines between each one. This makes [FileWriteN] useless.

Basically, I've found some applications here that has helped me bypass my school's PC restrictions(obsolete software, web filters, etc).

I want to recommend these applications and Portable apps platform to my friends. I don't want them to download each package and install them by themselves, as they will think the steps are hard. So, I want to make a easy-to-install package, just like what the Portableapps team has did with the Suite.

But my only portable storage is my external HDD, and I don't want to overwrite the installation there.