Portable App Development

As mentioned in Chris' testing thread, I'm having issues with Scribus 1.3.8 not recognizing the HOME environment variable. This is the only problem I have, and once it's fixed, I will be able to upload a working copy of Scribus 1.3.8

Please see my attached launcher.ini (appropriately renamed, of course)
Any help would be appreciated. I can give access to the full package if someone needs it.

[Launch]
ProgramExecutable=Scribus\Scribus.exe
SingleAppInstance=true

[Activate]
Registry=true
XML=true

[Environment]
PATH=%PAL:AppDir%\Ghostscript;%PATH%

I'm trying to make an app portable that has a user data folder in C:\Users\... How would I move this folder into \Data ?

Also, do you know of any good guides to making portable apps (besides documentation and forum topic)?

ive been reading up on how to handle registry keys with PAL, but im lost....i used regshot to find out what keys i need to add and delete to the registry for my program, but i dont understand how to implement them into my launcher.ini.

would it be possible to see a real launcher.ini as an example? or at least the section dealing with the registry?

i know i sound like a total noob, but running a search didnt turn up any thing that i actually understood, and with the way im wired seeing an example allows me to understand what has to be put down a lot better

yes i did some checking on this app and it is open source. question i have is would any one else besides me use said app?

${SegmentFile}
Var CustomDataDir

${SegmentInit}
StrCpy $CustomDataDir "Data"
${ReadUserOverrideConfig} $0 SettingsDirectory
${IfThen} $0 != "" ${|} StrCpy $CustomDataDir $0 ${|}
${SetEnvironmentVariable} PAL:DataDir "$EXEDIR\$CustomDataDir"
!macroend

This does not seem to work.. Any suggestions?

[Contents of thread removed; that software is not open source, so you can't redistribute it like that - mod Chris]

I was surprised to see that there's no Geometer's Sketchpad App for the PortableApps.com platform. So... I've decided to make one myself. I am just assembling a draft now, and I will post that as soon as I'm finished. This is my first portable app, so help would be much appreciated.

Hello everyone,

I've been working with the registry features of PAL. I've been successful at creating and deleting keys using [RegistryKeys](from a .reg file), [RegistryCleanupIfEmpty] - pretty cool! I have a curious problem however:

Briefly: All registry key-branches from "appnameportable.reg", accept the (one) specified through the [RegistryKeys] section, are being deleted. When two [RegistryKeys] are specified(as bellow) only the second is kept.

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In detail:

Hi folks,

I just started with portable apps. My goal ist to make an qt-based app portable to run from an USB flash drive. This app uses no registry keys but unfortunately it places somes data in the directory where Windows environment variable "%USERPROFILE% points to.

Is it necessary to move each file in %PAL:DataDir%\settings separately using
[FilesMove]
settings\xxx.aaa=%APPDATA%\...
if *.* is used in place of xxx.aaa,all the settings are not transferred..
For opera there are 28 files in settings directory..