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Portable App Development

Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

Any interest for an app I'm currently making?

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Submitted by napster100 on May 11, 2014 - 11:46pm

Hi guys, I'm new on the dev scene and currently producing an app that can Copy, Move or Sync (update new) files, I originally only wanted a sync capability but through testing the code I've written to copy files to another destination seems to do it faster than that of the native copy and paste, so I thought I'd add that in too.

Using obscure releases of firefox portable

Submitted by critical on May 8, 2014 - 11:41am

Hi there,

I have versions of firefox (29.0.1 and 27.0.2) that I need portable app's for but portable apps currently do not support this. I download the 29.0.1 .exe from firefox, extract the content, pull the firefox runnable exe and replace the it with the portable one from the PortableApp but this does not work. How can I generate a portable Firefox runnable exe from versions of firefox that are not offered on this site?

Thank you

EMET 4.1 - ASLR always on - generates start errors

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Submitted by arachnaut on May 8, 2014 - 11:38am

I have just installed EMET 4.1 from Microsoft and I have successfully enabled some of the advanced features.

But when I turn on ASLR 'Always on' - Portable Apps will not start properly.

I see the following error:

Application popup: PortableAppsUpdater.exe - Application Error : The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b). Click OK to close the application.

I can launch the GUI directly from the Portable Apps folder on the USB drive, and I can launch several apps, but many display the same error.

Portable Python

Submitted by Wm ... on May 5, 2014 - 4:58am

If this isn't the right forum I'm happy for it to be shifted elsewhere.

I know this isn't exactly new but I'm wondering if anyone has any strong feelings about a preferred portable python?

I'm working on building GnuCash with python bindings (something famously tricky on Win so desirable outside of the PA universe as well as within) but figured I may as well go the whole hog and do it portably too.

Thoughts?

SRWare Iron + AppCompactor

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Submitted by sxshaffer on May 2, 2014 - 9:24pm

Is SRWare Iron compressed using AppCompactor?

If so, which compression method was used to do so without causing problems with the performance or operation of the browser? I've tried compacting other random programs, just to see if it would work. It does compact, but I'd get error messages when the program would open or after doing certain things with the browser.

Developing a Portable App.

Submitted by gandalf97 on April 29, 2014 - 1:05pm

I am thinking about developing a new PortableApp but I come from a .NET/Visual Studio background. I looked at the guide but what I am really interested in is what tools and language people find best. If I need to learn new tools and a new language, I want to make the best choice I can. Thanks!

I need help with application that installs driver

Submitted by Peter8087 on April 26, 2014 - 7:11am

I am trying to make portable the program Hotspot Shield: filehippo.com/download_hotspot_shield

I created the portable launcher and when i start it it starts the program and the program icon appear on the system tray, but if i try to connect to the VPN network it doesn't work. Also if i try to go to the properties settings it doesn't work too.
The program installs a network driver and i think this is the reason why it doesn't work properly.

This is my launcher.ini file:

[Launch]
ProgramExecutable=HotspotShield\bin\HSSCP.exe
WorkingDirectory=%PAL:AppDir%\HotspotShield

Is possible another file in the root?

Submitted by jviure on April 26, 2014 - 3:57am

Hi! I'm Jordi from Spain. This is my first post, hi to all!!

I need something I don't know if it's posible. I've downloaded the Chromium portable (and the portableapp installer too) and now I want to re-package Chromium but with the difference that the file ChromiumPortable.ini will be in the root folder (I want for example to set the homepage or to disable plugins installation... and I think the unique way is with the ChromiumPortable.ini in the root folder as says the help.html), customize the portable app. It is posible? I've tried to modify the AppInfo.ini with:

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