Portable App Development

I tried to create a Plugin installer accordingly the instructions under No. 7 of the PortableApps.com Format™ 3.0 (2012-05-11). I have inserted the file plugininstaller.ini in the App\AppInfo directory. Only this file is contained in the App\AppInfo directory. The directory layout only contains the folder App and the appropriate subfolders and the folder Other. The file plugininstaller.ini is identical with the file appinfo.ini of the portable app that the plugin is used.

I have a bit of an odd problem.

I am using the 'Portable Python' from portablepython.com.
This package includes the PyScripter IDE.
I am fond, however, of working with IDLE, python's built in IDE.
I browsed through the contents of the portable app and found that IDLE could still be launched by running a batch file. The contents of the batch file appear to run a python script in the python engine to generate the IDLE GUI (I'm just guessing here, I can post the code if you like).

In my app streamWriter Portable I have integrated the following section in the file appinfo.ini:

[Associations]
FileTypes=mp3

Afterwards I installed the app as usual in the PA.c Menu. Now I started the PA.c Menu but no *.mp3 files was associated with streamWriter Portable.
In a second attempt I run streamWriter Portable from the PA.c Menu, but the same issue appeared.

Has anyone an explanation for this issue?

Is there a manual for the PA.com Installer? I'm getting an error, and can't seem to find any documentation. Thanks..

Hi,
I'm trying to make this portable app, it's already 99% portable except: it writes config to a special folder.It's like:
D:\PHOTO\MassiGra\user\joshatt\MassiGra.cfg

You see? "joshatt" is my WINXP username. Guess I should use "USERPROFILE", but how could I filter out the "C:\Documents and Settings\" part? And I also have to consider if this portable app is to be used in a win7 or vista computer, it could be filtering out "C:\Users\",instead.

Any idea?

Is it possible that Pathological is not in the app store?
I didn't have it installed ever before and saw it listed here and noticed it was not in the app store.

Thanks,
PSkilton

Hi everybody, I can't make Portableapp.com Launcher if registry not write before programs running, but, I have .reg with 1772 line, this will take a long time if write a manual to [RegistryValueWrite] ?

please tell me, how to convert (.reg) to [RegistryValueWrite] ?
or is there a simple way for this ?

thanks before.

Not really sure which category this should go into but since many of the developers use Sourceforge to host their apps I thought this would be appropriate in this topic.

Do someone know a program, which can open *.dat files and show me the content of that special file?

Greetings, All!

I just thought I'd post this, since there is basically no effort involved to incorporate it into the current library. There exists a "Portable Python" app that I discovered the other day at http://www.portablepython.com/ .

The installer is not exactly like the PortableApp installer, but it does basically the same thing and the extracted directories basically meet the requirements to be included in the library of apps without any further modifications.

When I placed the files with my other PortableApps, the Suite integrated it without a hickup. Talk about sweet!