Portable App Development

Hi I've been wondering if using Chris's launcher is still not supported, I'd like to put out some launchers and well, it's the easiest way for me to do it since I'd rather focus on learning another programming language right now (working on a game heh, I'm doing C# but I KNOW I should be doing C++ for portability and abscence of any needed .NET or any other dependencies that you need to install...it's just easier to use XNA studio, and I don't have a lot of time to program... I'm CRAZY!)

Anyway as I was saying, yeah, if I use Chris's launcher will it be kept from going official?

First of all - Hello - this is my first post on the forum. Hopefully not the last.

I would like to now, is there any simple way of changing a name of existing portable app. For instance - portablefirefox.exe runs a process firefox.exe. That's obvious. But I would like to change names of this processes. Of course, simple change the name of firefox.exe will couse that portablefirefox.exe won't find and won't run an app.

Thanks in advance,

goto206

I'm using FindProc in the CustomCodePostInstall macro in PortableApps.comInstallerCustom.nsh but it's always returning "0" (Process was not found). Is there a reason why this shouldn't work? Everything compiles ok (no errors). The path is correct and the process is running. Honest

Hi All!

Just wanted to post our first attempt at making our free driver updater portable:
http://www.devicedoctor.com/device-doctor-portable.php

It scans any computer for updated drivers and will download the ones you want from our fast servers. It's completely free with no adware.

We haven't done a portable version before but I hope it's good enough to be added to PortableApps.

Thanks,

Collin

He,
where i can find a winrar portable ?

I though I saw this somewher but now can't find Is there a way to create your own suite of portable apps so it's easy to use and install?

In the launchers, the labels 'NoProgramEXE' and 'WarnAnotherInstance' end with 'Abort'. OK, but why don't they 'Goto TheEnd' instead and unload the plugins/clean the TEMP directory etc. while they're at it? It would seem much more sensible and I can't see any problem.

Is there something I'm missing here that would make this inadvisable?

Hi everyone,

I'm making a portable version of Geogebra, but I'm unable to do a launcher which checks without errors if Java is installed on the host PC, or on the USB drive.

I said earlier that I was using external files for the game, thinking it would make the overall file size smaller, but I was wrong.

Game Maker already compresses the images itself, so the file size isn't improved any using external files, and can actually be made worse if you don't use the right bit level (I've actually found out that sometimes 24 bit comes out smaller than 8 bit, so watch out for that).

I hope you guys find this useful, unless I'm actually the only GM user here.

I know the following code for redirecting the 'userprofile'.

System::Call 'Kernel32::SetEnvironmentVariableA(t, t) i("USERPROFILE", "$SETTINGSDIRECTORY\UserProfile").r0'

But I wonder if there will be anyway of redirecting other system folders.

Like the following folders:

'Cookies', 'Local Settings' or even 'Temporary Internet Files' and 'History'

I have tried all sorts of combinations, but nothing seems to do the trick as 'USERPROFILE' does !