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Welcome to the portable apps development wiki. This wiki is here to serve as a guide to both new and established developers, who develop PortableApps Format compliant apps.

Home page: Online (http://portableapps.com/) Forums: Online (http://portableapps.com/forums/)

We're currently working on a FAQ for users over here.

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• Beginner's Guide - A good checklist for new developers.
• IRC Chat - Learn about the PortableApps Freenode channel.
• Development Test Topic Outline - A description of the posting layout.

• What launcher to get examples from - Find out which official launcher to look at for your project.
• NSIS Efficiency - Reccomended commands for launchers.
• Compression - Learn about app compression.

• Menu Localizations

• Current Application Development - A list of portable applications in development stages.
• Mac-On-A-Stick Tutorial - Step-by-step instructions to set up the Mac System 7 emulator.

• Google Chrome Portable: Less Options, More PAF
• ChmHlp 1.0.0.0
• Zenmap Portable Development Test 1
• Portable OpenVPN 2.1_rc18
• Baby Web Server USB Launcher
• PAF.tc - PortableApp TrueCrypt Wrapper Dev Test 1
• XBMC Media Center Portable 9.04 Development Test 1
• PortableApps.com Platform 1.6 Pre-Release 0

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• What's mandatory in an app download to be considered “PortableApps.com format compliant” and what's just “nice to have”
  • Put under Quick Reference 1)
• Directory structure walkthru with descriptions of each dir
• Good links to NSIS sample scripts
  • Put under Quick Reference 2)
• (Advanced) Most efficient NSIS to copy files or whole directories of files from place to place
  • Under Established Developers 3)
• Sample pa.com Beta forum post. Include links to the homepage of the app you're portabilzing, description of the app, etc * Don't know if that's necessary 4)Fixed…
• Example Build environments
  • Should go under PAF Format 5)
• Anyone have a good program to dump out directory structures to text files not just showing the file names but makes the fake lines with dashes like:

dir -+
     |
     +---Subdir

To accomplish the above, use “tree /A /F” at a command prompt or for a picture of the dir structure, try http://yourdir.z5com-pty-ltd.qarchive.org/ (might look nicer in a Wiki…not sure)

BuddhaChu

That was the point of my MiniBrowser that can be found here: 9810#comment-54383 as it shows both the folders and the files.

Steve

Yeh, but MISIIM's browser was better :P Anyway, you can link to a topic by going [[pa>1000]], where 1000 is the topic number.
Ryan

To dump the structure directly to a text file, use the command BuddhaChu mentioned above, but pass the results to [filename]. ie “tree /A /F > dirStruct.txt” This evening, I may throw together an AutoHotKey app that will do this, and then replace the unneeded lines at the top with the current directory. Also, I just did #5 in your list. I created a page that gives a sample Test Release topic template.

Zach