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Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

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Submitted by KPAH on March 26, 2014 - 9:21am

Hi.
Been using portable apps for over 8 years now, and there are two features that annoy me in the newer releases of the launcher. The first one is inability to run from Program files folder, but that was explained and probably not in the users power to change.
Another one is this popup which appear in newer versions of Windows when you shutdown the PC without exiting the portable app. The next time you start the app, it shows a window saying the app must be closed with one single button OK.

Problem with making registry settings portable

Submitted by Peter8087 on March 23, 2014 - 9:17am

I am trying to make Kindle for PC in portable format and i created successfully the portable launcher and then i run a scan with Regshot to see what changes in the system the program makes. It stores some data in the local AppData folder which i moved with:

[DirectoriesMove]
config=%LOCALAPPDATA%\Amazon.

But i have problem with the registry settings. In the regshot scan log there are three entries related to the registry:

Keys added: 48
Values added: 45
Values modified: 15

Problem with changing default settings saving location path

Submitted by Peter8087 on March 19, 2014 - 2:42pm

I want to change the default save location of a program that i am trying to make portable. This is my first attempt to make a portable program with portableapps.com launcher so i hope someone can help me.

The program saves its settings in C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Local\Just Gestures. I want to make it saves the settings in E:\PortableApps\JustGesturePortable\Data\JustGestureSettings.

This is what i have in launcher.ini:

[Launch]

ProgramExecutable=Just Gestures\JustGestures.exe

[DirectoriesMove]

%APPDATA%\Local\Just Gestures=%PAL:DataDir%\JustGestureSettings

Download more than one file with installer.ini

Submitted by mwayne on March 13, 2014 - 5:40pm

How can I download more than one file with the installer.ini?

I came across with another issue in the installer.ini
I download an example.zip it contains the following structure example123/example.exe.
How can I extract the example.exe to App/example?
If I use
AdvancedExtract1To=App/example
AdvancedExtract1Filter=example123/example.exe

the result is:
App/example/example123/example.exe instead of App/example/example.exe

PAF Launcher Editor v4

Submitted by dekdeck on March 11, 2014 - 12:03pm

PAF Launcher Editor is a program used for creating/editing a PortableApps.com App Launcher. It simplifies things by making most options point and click. Using this editor would prevent you from making mistakes that you would otherwise do if you were manually typing up the launcher.ini file.

CRC: 2B59FA7C
MD5: D5C294D91F0C6B36039B029AACA728D7
SHA-1: 4C7DC81C7D1ED357168F4E01CBAC4A9C3379296C
Dependencies: .net Framework 4.0
Languages: English

Explorador FF: what is the next step?

Submitted by ctsergio on March 4, 2014 - 2:18am

Hi,

It’s been some time since I followed your instructions from "Development Test - Forum Posting Layout" and posted my app "Explorador FF", but it won’t show up in any table from “Development Test Releases Page”. Could somebody tell me what is the next step in order for this to happen, please?

Thank you very much.

New ~ Launcher Error's Missing INI File

Submitted by jtaylor330 on February 28, 2014 - 9:39pm

After running Launcher Generator I get a successful output and Exe for my Application. When I run the Application i get an error
MyApp Portable cannot be started. You may want to re-install...

(ERROR: C:\*\*\*\App\AppInfo\Launcher\MyApp.ini cannot be found.)

My assumption was when the launcher ran it would create the appropriate .ini files after I put in the AppInfo.ini and other required .INI's in the AppInfo folder.

If I manually create MyApp.ini and place it in the \Launcher Directory I get the error:

(Portable Launcher - What Am I To Launch?)

PortableApps.comDocuments Custom Code Update To Fix Bug

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Submitted by John T. Haller on February 20, 2014 - 12:33pm

A few apps are using some custom code for PAL (contained in Custom.nsh) I wrote to determine the PortableApps.com Documents directory when apps are run without the PA.c Platform. There is a bug in this code that I fixed today in the LibreOffice Portable 4.2.1 update (awaiting publisher posting). Here is the fixed code:

ExpandEnvStrings $1 "%PortableApps.comDocuments%"
	${If} $1 == ""
	${OrIfNot} ${FileExists} "$1\*.*"
		${GetParent} $EXEDIR $3
		${GetParent} $3 $1
		${If} $1 == "" ;Be sure we didn't just GetParent on Root
			StrCpy $1 $3
		${EndIf}

Making Devanagari Phonetic, Typewriter keyboard

Submitted by Prakash Dongare on February 16, 2014 - 9:09am

Sir,Thanks for providing PKL app for keyboard driver. I too develop Indian Devanagari keyboard. In the .INI file, there is dead key for few ligature. But devenagari had no need Dead key. Devanagari had normal sequence key. for example: 'A' + 'B' -> 'C'. What can i do for making my keyboard driver. Dead key hasn`t make my language keyboard. Please Email me.

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