so well im not so virgin cause im using portable programs but i am virgin in making portable app
and i want to make portable emulator to which guy from this post inspired me to
https://portableapps.com/node/38101/subscribe#comment-213903
and so i was hoping what can be hard in it ?
so my obvious idea was to install stuff he provided me in links and use it to create simple portable app just for test before i go to emulator cause i think its more complicated
and so i choose to create cheat engine portable since this program only leave add and that modify only 3 keys in registry
so what have i done
1st i installed portablecomlauncher and that nisis or what ever
2nd i launched launcher to check what he will want from me
3rd after i figured out he want me to point to an app folder and not app it self i did so
4th i used zoomit portable as template
5th i made icon and png files and placed them in Cheat EnginePortable\App\AppInfo
6th i go to check how zoomit portable folder structure is build and so i made same folders in cheat engine portable and placed all stuff in a same way like it was in zoom it portable
7th i go to every folder in zoomit portable to check whats in side i copied all ini files to cheat engine portable and edited them so they fit cheat engine portable
8th after everything looks fine i used launcher to create portable version of cheat engine
9th IF i view log i see this error on the bottom
2 warnings:
!include: could not find: "C:\Documents and Settings\Zero\Pulpit\Cheat EnginePortable\App\AppInfo\Launcher\Custom.nsh" (Segments.nsh:122)
!include: could not find: "C:\Documents and Settings\Zero\Pulpit\Cheat EnginePortable\App\AppInfo\Launcher\Debug.nsh" (Debug.nsh:87)
but well zoomit portable do not have that 2 files so wtf ?
and next when i launch cheat engine portable i see this
http://i.imgur.com/ys03TH7.png
but cheat engine launched but when i click anything on toolbar file edit table
than nothing happens
but if i select process and try co scan it than i see this
http://i.imgur.com/u5OKFUj.png
so
can any 1 tell me what am i missing or what i am doing wrong and help me end my portable virginity ? 
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You can ignore the two log warnings, they are just saying that two optional files couldn't be found. It won't cause any problems with the package.
In regards to the errors, they are coming from the program itself. I can't guarantee it will work, but the most consistently useful thing to try when an app throws errors when you are testing it out like that is to set the working directory in the launcher.ini.
i did not understand much from what link you given
but i placed here
Cheat EnginePortable\Data\settings\Cheat EnginePortable\Settings.ini
this on the end
[Environment]
PATH=%PATH%;%PAL:AppDir%\AppName
Cheat EnginePortable_HOME=%PAL:DataDir%\settings
and so i still get same error when launching
but now except FILE everything from tool bar works and scanning still does not work
i upload here what i made
maybe if you or someone can check it you can tell me wtf i did wrong
http://www21.zippyshare.com/v/27492980/file.html
btw cheat engine is program that lets you scan for values in games so you can cheat like add extra money or make ur char have infinite health or even change health to certain amount and lock it so even when you get hied you wont lose health or mana or time and so go on....
I can't run the app at work, but there are few issues I can see just from the files:
appinfo.ini
Launcher\Cheat EnginePortable.ini
Data\settings\Cheat EnginePortable\Settings.ini
Don't change this file! It is automatically generated by the Launcher and should not be changed. At best the changes you make will be ignored, at worst you could break the app.
Other
When I get home from work I will be able to look more into what is causing the errors in the program.
i did everything you mentioned above
and guess what ?
still does not works
nothing changed
http://www4.zippyshare.com/v/5194049/file.html
for ever a virgin
I'm home from work and looking at it now.
You certainly picked a difficult one for your first attempt, but I have figured out the problems. It is all to do with a missing directory.
Give me a while and I will post an updated package which should fix the issues.
Here is the package.
Changes:
Things I didn't do:
ehh winterblood
from all the points you did i understand like non ?
i have no idea how you know what to do and how you did it ?
i do not need cheat engine portable i never needed it i just wanted to LEARN how to make apps portable
and you give me end result and i see only black magic in a post you made above
not without reason topic here contains word VIRGIN
ok so anyway can you point me to where i can learn how to know what to do and than to somewhere from where i will know how to do it ?
But as I said above you did pick an app that ended up being quite difficult.
Honestly there is nowhere that can teach you how to know exactly what to do. It is learnt through trial & error, experience and a little bit of luck, and every app is different.
For this package the registry handling is easy enough, FileWrite1-3 are the standard path handling operations we do (I didn't figure those out, I just copy & paste them, changing the filename and
:DoubleBlackslashbit to whatever is needed by the app).The other stuff I did with the DEFAULTSCANDIR variable is a fairly advanced idea - only language switching is more difficult for standard Launcher functionality.
I would suggest starting with something a lot easier, maybe even one of our own official apps that doesn't require too much work so you have something to compare against to see how you did, or if you get stuck. FeedNotifier, ZoomIt, BabelMap and ConvertAll might be good places to start.
no you did not understand me
i didnt ask what exact steps you did cause i know it wont fit to every app
i ask how you learned them ?
i made many complicated stuff on my pc like games/program editing
modifying programs or even creating bat files to export/import registry or move/delete/copy config files and launch them so that they seem to work like they ware portable
but always i used google to find info on how to do so and answer was there
you provided me with no such info and i wanna know from where you did know what you COULD TRY to do to make it work
like for example
here is my version of cheat engine which uses simple bat file commands like
REGEDIT /W /S "%CD%" Data\CEConfig.reg
Start /w "%CD%" "App\Cheat Engine.exe"
reg export "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cheat Engine" "%CD%"\Data\CEConfig.reg
and i just uset bat2exe program to convert that bat file to exe file and i made icon for cheat engine and thats all
http://www33.zippyshare.com/v/44734968/file.html
and so i just picked cheat engine cause it just added/eddited few keys in registry
and what it does was that after you launch it 1st time it launched
tutorial and at next launches tutorial was not loaded and than the last path used to save cheat tables was stored in registry so i only needed that 2 things to be portable and i did it with that bat file so i was hoping that cheat engine will be simple to make portable in portable apps standards just if its edit that few things
so as you see im able to learn this or that but i need to have info from which i can learn and thats what im asking you for any way i believe i learned allot from you already from which im grateful
BUT IM STILL A VIRGIN !!!
Apart from a few posts here in the forums there is nowhere that teaches you how to make a PortableApps package - it is all about looking at existing packages and reading the documentation, along with some trial & error and perseverance.
Knowing the Launcher Manual and Format Spec will help you, but there is still a great deal that relies simply on you having a go and learning from experience.
i gonna read that all
that 2nd link (format spec) seems straight forward for me but i already seen what is in 1st link (launcher manual) and not much help i found there
but i will study them both and see what i will learn
ill come back here siin to ask why making epsxe portable did not work so just wait
thanks for your knowledge