Portable App Development

I don't know where to post this so I will put it here. If any moderators know of a better place, please move it.

I have SoftMaker 2008. The entire program can be copied to a thumb drive. I have done this and it works great. But, I have to go to the drive lettr itself to click on the program to get it started.

Is there any way to get a startup link on the main screen of Portable apps? Or is there any way to just MAKE it a portable app?

Hi,

I would like to optmize / customize PA installations, e.g. remove unneeded locales, adjust some ini file settings and so on.

I did not find any way to put a custom script anywhere in the installation / updating pipeline without recompiling nsis installer - but I do not want a fork, I want a way to customize things.

Is there any post-install and / or post-update hook mechanism like known from other software deployment systems?

Application: LibreCAD
Category: Office
Description: LibreCAD is the free Open Source personal CAD application for Windows, Macintosh and Linux.

Download LibreCAD Portable 1.0.2 Development Test 1 [10.2MB download / 48.8MB installed]
(MD5: a147dc70e7560fbf8548b983cff34a87)

Release Notes:

Who knows a version of GnuCash where secure online banking and import to the MT942 format is possible. In the version 2.4.10-1 HBCI works but the import of MT942 files is not possible. Currently I have to use two versions.
regards Wolfgang

Since PAL-based launchers are the preferred way to develop apps, I suggest we change step 4 on this page to refer to PAL, rather than referring to coding directly in NSIS.

I would like to customize the installer. During the installation of the app should be displayed a custom page to the user. This custom installer page should contain a special titel and an information for the user. Can someone offer me instructions or the code, so that I am able to realize that feature?

Trying to create different profile for my explorer++ application.
The config.xml can be successfully moved.
But when the application terminates, a folder %COMPUTERNAME% is created under Profile.

[Launch]
ProgramExecutable=Explorer++\Explorer++.exe
DirectoryMoveOK=yes
SingleAppInstance=true

[FilesMove]
Profile\%COMPUTERNAME%\config.xml=%PAL:AppDir%\Explorer++

[FileWrite1]
Type=Replace
File=%PAL:DataDir%\Profile\%COMPUTERNAME%\config.xml
Find=%PAL:LastDrive%%PAL:LastPackagePartialDir%
Replace=%PAL:Drive%%PAL:PackagePartialDir%

[FileWrite2]
Type=Replace

I've thought again about using of the PortableApps.com AppCompactor. My question concerns the exact time using this program. Should PortableApps.com AppCompactor primarily used then, after a portable program is installed on an USB flash drive? Or is it also conceivable, that this program can be applied after using the PortableApps.com launcher but before using the PortableApps.com Installer?

I hope this is the correct place for this. I've repackaged the Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition version 10 installer with the changes necessary for the ESR release.

How does one create an installer that will guarantee that no matter where a user chooses to save file to the files do not get removed during installation of a new build?