Portable App Development

Hi all,
Creating my first portable app .. im stuck on the bit in the app documentation that says ...

"Start is the command line to execute to start the app relative to the AppNamePortable directory. This will typically be AppNamePortable.exe."

How do I make the .exe file?? and how does it point to the actual executable in the App\Appname\ directory?
I have a .bat file that works perfectly, I just cant figure out how to create the .exe file ...

Thanks

I'm not sure what the reason could be for this, but it's not necessary and it's also problematic.
TLDR: You can drop in the most recent x64 qbittorrent.exe to replace the x32 bit version and it should actually run better.

How to upload a new app ?
Greetings ,
I have written a portable "Kid Safe Browser" app , and I would like to add it to add it to PortablsApps.com .
How can I do this ?
https://sourceforge.net/projects/kidsafebrowser-us/

Thank you...

Hi,
I have a small utility I want to make portable.
It's pretty straightforward and I had the launcher working in no time.
Well.. except it doesn't work !
The reason I finaly found for it is that PAL writes the key to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\App when the registry key I want to write should go to HKLM\SOFTWARE\App ! The App reads HKLM\SOFTWARE\App that doesn't exist.
I've seen some posts about this issue but all of them very old.
Is there a workaround or am I out of luck ?

Hi,

I have a question. I have a program I have made portable. It requires registering a .dll that in turn requires admin rights. I have used a custom.nsh file to register and unregister the .dll. IOW I don't need help with that - it's working....

My question is, I don't understand how PortableApps uses it's own registery files without writing to the host pc's registry at all.

Hi
I searched in this forums did not find my Qusetion.
I want to ask. how to write value when value is string type. in PortableApps.com Launcher
suhch as
[Activate]
Registry=true
[RegistryValueWrite]
HKCU\Software\AppName\Key\Value2=REG_SZ:AppName ;Value2=$AppDirectory\AppName\App.exe

I tried this one also but did not work
HKCU\Software\AppName\Key\"$AppDirectory\AppName\App.exe"=REG_SZ:AppName

I'm working on updating the Msys2 Portable setup that was posted a while ago, and am having trouble getting the launcher generator to generate launchers for the new build systems that Msys2 has (the current portable setup only has the Msys, Mingw32, and Mingw64 launchers, and Msys2 now supports Clang32, Clang64, and UCRT64 as well). When running the generator, it only creates a new Msys2Portable.exe file, ignoring the other launcher ini files.

hello everyone
I've just started learning how to create portable programs, I don't know much and I'm asking for your help. I was trying to create a portable version of the Defraggler program. But the program still leaves the keys in the registry. Can you please tell me what I did wrong and how can I fix it? I will leave a link to the portable version of my program so that you can check for yourself if you want.
[link removed for license violation by mod JTH]

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A while ago, I filed a bug report for SumatraPDF (https://portableapps.com/node/65018). When I open multiple files, by marking them in Windows Explorer and pressing the Return key, SumatraPDF will overwrite its settings with a default version.

I experimented with \SumatraPDFPortable\App\AppInfo\Launcher\SumatraPDFPortable.ini and added the following parameters to [Launch]:
SplashTime=2000
LaunchAppAfterSplash=true
CloseEXE=%PAL:PortableAppsDir%\SumatraPDFPortable.exe