Portable App Development

As I'm not allowed to include the binary in my DbVisualizer Launcher, I thought about downloading the binary when the installer is started.

At the moment I have the code shown at the bottom.

Now just before the "Delete $2" I need to unzip the downloaded zip file to %PAL:AppDir%

As I did not understand NSIS yet, can anyone please give me a hint how to achieve this?

Hi!

I really like DbVisualizer and it's almost portable.

So I've created a Launcher using PortableApps' launcher and asked the dbvis guys whether I may post the launcher here.

I got permission to do so provided I do not include the actual code.

So I can only provide a launcher where one would have to unpack the official download to.

1) Do we already have examples for this?
2) Do you support this kind of launchers at all?
3) Maybe the installer could download the package?
4) How would I post my launcher for others to test?

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I'm trying to make a portable Ruby that launches an editor and a cmd.exe window along with it. The launcher works in that it starts Ruby, but I cannot seem to make the environmental variables for "Path" stick, and I end up with an open and unused window (if I hide the window, I have to kill Ruby using the Task Manager). I'm trying to overcome these problems before adding the additional parts.

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I'd like to create a launcher that only contains command line arguments.
For example: C:\Path\to\AutoHotkey.exe D:\Path\to\AutoHotkey.ahk

I probably have to make AutoHotkey a CommonPlugin and use it in the ProgrammExectuable right?

I'm trying to move all my PortableApps/${AppNamePortable}/Data directories under PortableApps/Data/${AppNamePortable} but am finding that more apps do NOT support the SettingsDirectory option that those that do.

Here is a summary of my installed apps. (All updated to latest stable version.)

YES | 7-Zip
NO  | AntRename
YES | Dia (creates PortableApps/DiaPortable/Data but uses SettingsDirectory)
YES | DiaShapes
NO  | Evince
YES | Firefox
NO  | FoxitReader
NO  | Geany
NO  | GIMP
NO  | Git
NO  | GnuCash
YES | GoogleChrome
NO  | gVim

I should have made a thread about this a long time ago, but it seems that the compile-force option doesn't seem to work. The reason this was implemented, if I recall correctly, was that in the event of launching a process as admin, all environment variables were lost. I believe compile-force was an attempt to fix this, but the variables still do not show up in the properties of the admin processes.

I need to set the AppCompatFlag 16BITCOLOR. How can I do this?
I know this thread: https://portableapps.com/node/29056
But SET __COMPAT_LAYER=16BITCOLOR is not supported.
Any ideas?

Is there any documentation for how the updater works?

I am interested in the ability to make the updater check alternative portable app directories, but unfortunately do not know delphi. However, I do a lot of web development, so was thinking I would take a swing at developing a portable app directory management solution. Then if I can complete that, maybe I will take a swing at learning enough delphi to hack a solution together.

I am assuming I can sniff the traffic and decode the request/response, but was thinking it might be better to build off actual documentation instead.