Portable App Development

Hello,

While some kinds of command line parameter are supported under [Associations] section such as: FileTypeCommandLine, FileTypeCommandLine-extension, ProtocolCommandLine, SendToCommandLine, ShellCommandLine; the command line switch/parameter for launching the app is poorly supported. It is only supported via myAppPortable.ini which is not so obvious and only support for main App.

My suggestion is something as below:

appinfo.ini
[Control]
Start=AppNamePortable.exe

Hello,
I have myAppPortable symlink (directory symlink) placed under PortableApps folder.
When I choose uninstal myApp from PortableApps platform, it deletes the contents (files and folders) inside the symlink directory.

Not sure if it is a bug.
But please when uninstall myApp, only delete the symlink, not the contents. Or provide option to only delete symlink.
Should also take care of other symlinks if any present in myAppPortable.

Hi, I am trying to take certain actions based on the number of NSIS instances running.
The main reason is that if there are two instances of the same executable the data created is overwritten

I asked in the NSIS forum but the code provided doesn't work. I wanted to put the code in multiple sections, the one provided by the NSIS forun can only be used once.

If there is only one instance does it perform an action, if there are two or more does it perform another

Driver virtualization - Done
Embedding - Done

HTH FYI

Which is your favorite? Especially via been portable?

Sorry I forgot to mention that both Softwares are available in a "portable format"

Qemu does by definition to be portable - VirtualBox still trying to only be installed, but told to
be installed portable by no ways.

HTH

Hello. I want to make my portable app change ProgramExecutable based on the version of Windows. I tried to this in Custom.nsh:

${SegmentFile}

${SegmentInit}
    ${If} ${AtLeastWin110}
        ${SetEnvironmentVariablesPath} FullAppDir $AppDirectory\PolyMC
    ${Else}
        ${SetEnvironmentVariablesPath} FullAppDir $AppDirectory\Legacy
    ${EndIf}
!macroend

But it seems I can't use the environment variable in ProgramExecutable. Any idea how I'd accomplish this? Thanks.

Hi,

I am new at this, and so would very much appreciate the help from the community - i am trying to create a portableapps (paf) version of Tabby.
I created the appinfo.ini:


[Format]
Type=PortableAppsFormat
Version=3.7

[Details]
Name=Tabby PortableApps
AppId=TabbyPortable
Publisher=Wolfferine
Homepage=
Donate=
Category=Internet
Description=Tabby - a terminal for the modern age
Language=Multilingual

In my special case I would like to exclude "JavaPortableLauncher"
It does severe problems.

Hi, I'm trying to create an NSIS compiled executable that selecting it from the "open with" choices opens the designated file in a specific executable. Basically a sort of launcher similar to the PA.c launcher but without including any code belonging to it. I noticed that the PA.c Template has "FileTypeCommandLine" and "FileTypeCommandLine-extension", is it possible to implement such a thing in a .nsi script?

I explain better

EXAMPLE:

Everything I have read online says that you should start with a "clean install" of the OS in order to begin to create a portable app.

I understand the reasons why, but obviously this is not necessarily an easy thing to do for a normal user.

So my question is can you use something like VMware to create a virtual machine with a freshly installed OS and create a portable app on a computer that is not a fresh install?

If so: