Portable App Development

I know it's a bit selfish, but I don't like opening up my thumb drive and seeing a bunch of folders. Then clicking on said folders. Then clicking on the application.

Is there any way to lift the program from the folder, hide the folder, and still have it work?

Please don't suggest creating a shortcut; I have already tried this multiple times and it works for a week or two but is then made "invalid" (No idea why).

I think i can LEGALLY make a portable version of this program.

Link of app: http://emuleplus.sourceforge.net/

Popman (smal email client) has support for a "bigger" email client like Thunderbird. The path to that app is stored in an ini file as EmailClient=C:\PortableApps\ThunderbirdPortable\ThunderbirdPortable.exe.
Adding support for portability is easy (replace the drive letter). But adding support for path portability is hard because %PAL:PartialPath% doesnt work as it isnt the apps path that is needed but the path to Thunderbird Portable.

Does anyone know a fix for this?

Hi cracks,

I have a program i try to make portable which always needs another program. so i always have to start two portableapps. I thougt it would be a good idea to integrate both programms in one portableapp. More precisely in two app\appname dirs and tell the launcher's ini programexecutable to refer to two exe-files (i tried two lines). That does not work.

trying to follow some instructions I found to make evernote portable. I downloaded the 2.xx versions and I'm getting an error when I run the launchgenerator !include: could not find" x:\portableapps\nsisportable\app\nsis\..\..\data\settings\nsisconf.nsh Any suggestions?

Thanks

After using the latest PortableAppsCreater to package DVDSlideshowGUI the final
product DVDslideshowGUIPortable.exe (my naming) fails with the following error:
Windows cannot find "I:\DVDSlideshowGUI\I:\DVDSlideshowGUI\DVDslideshowGUI.exe".

Packaging other programs give the same type of error.

I suppose that step "Shortcutinformation" is the cause of this problem.

Here are 2 fields:
1. Get location of program to run:
I entered "I:\DVDSlideshowGUI\DVDslideshowGUI.exe" because I could NOT enter a path, but had to enter a file.
2. Get the location for the launcher:

CppCheck saves application paths in the registry as a REG_MULTI_SZ, which is saved to the .reg file in hex.

Example line from CppCheck.reg file (saved from launcher):

"Application paths"=hex(7):22,00,43,00,3a,00,5c,00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,67,00,72,\
  00,61,00,6d,00,20,00,46,00,69,00,6c,00,65,00,73,00,20,00,28,00,78,00,38,00,\
  36,00,29,00,5c,00,4e,00,6f,00,74,00,65,00,70,00,61,00,64,00,2b,00,2b,00,5c,\
  00,6e,00,6f,00,74,00,65,00,70,00,61,00,64,00,2b,00,2b,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,\
  65,00,22,00,00,00,00,00

Working on porting a java app.
Filesystem and Registry are clean apart from said.
In the manual under "CleanTemp" we are told this should not happen; Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?(Note: Atm I'm cleaning it using [DirectoriesCleanupForce])

Here is my launcher.ini:

[Launch]
ProgramExecutable=PhpStorm\bin\PhpStorm.exe
DirectoryMoveOK=yes
RunAsAdmin = force

[FileWrite1]
Type=ConfigWrite
File=%PAL:AppDir%\PhpStorm\bin\idea.properties
Entry=idea.config.path=


I have seen where other people have changed the Title graphics to their own. How can this be done. I see how to change theme, but no the "portableapps.com" title.

Anyone?

I have an app that requires a compatibility settings under Windows 7. In the registry, the setting is saved under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers as "C:\PortableApps\MyApp\App\MyApp.exe=REG_SZ:DISABLETHEMES". The problem is that the app path is part of the registry key name, and I can't find a way to set that and clean it up in Launcher.ini.

I've tried:

[RegistryValueWrite]
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers\%PAL:AppDir%=REG_SZ:DISABLETHEMES