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Portable App Development 3m2d40

Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

Submitted by SimonGeek on July 27, 2022 - 12:34pm

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?

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Newbie Question: Can you create portable apps inside a virtual machine? 3b295a

Submitted by Ryan1 on June 29, 2022 - 4:01pm

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 .

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:

How to compile the start program? And what IDE is used? 5m436b

Submitted by sy373466062 on June 28, 2022 - 3:36am

I the start(PortableAppsStartSource21.2.2.7z) source code from SF, and want to modify and customize it.
It seems the code is in Pascal, and I installed the Lazarus IDE, but it doesn't know the source code project.

What is the IDE is used to compile the code? Any guide to build it?

LibreOffice Portable 7.3.2 not starting on Windows 11 102j40

Submitted by Strange Problem... on June 11, 2022 - 8:17pm

I ed LibreOfficePortable_7.3.2_MultilingualAll.paf.exe and installed it to a folder AppsPortable\LibreOffice
The installation was successful, but after that none of the applications can execute - all of them start and terminate immediately. I didn't expect such a strange problem. I didn't have that problem with LibreOfficePortable_7.3.1_MultilingualAll.paf.exe

Exclude single app from auto updating?? 4hu1c

Submitted by Sebby75 on June 11, 2022 - 1:07pm

Is it possible to exclude one of the apps from auto updating??

Generally I am happy to auto update all of the apps on startup but one of the apps I would prefer to keep at certain version and NOT update it... (higher versions are causing issues)

Regards
Sebby75

Using DoubleExtractFilename 2l1c34

Submitted by Drazick on May 14, 2022 - 3:04am

I am trying to build a PortableApp.
The installer is an online installer.

The file is an EXE file which has a folder within named $PLUGINSDIR which has a file named app-64.7z inside it.
What I want is to be able to extract the contents of app-64.7z into App\AppName folder.

Hence I created installer.ini as following:

[Answered] Update of an official Portable App 1f25k

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Submitted by SanPe' on April 23, 2022 - 7:03am

Hey!

I did the Zotero App that was released on april 12th. I have a question, that I am a bit too afraid to ask...
Before official release, I did update my app on my Github repo. Now that Zotero is officially ed by portableapps, how do I update it?

Thanks a lot!

appinfo.ini start field ... how to create the .exe 2z5p26

Submitted by new2AllThis on April 13, 2022 - 4:42pm

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

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