Portable App Development

${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..

Olá, galera existe uma enorme variedades de softwares portáteis na internet, pois bem gostaria de passar o nome de algum deles que poderiam ser embalados por PortableApps, daí a questão porque não embalam eles:

HeidiSQL5.1Portable;
FluffyApp0.8.3;
PhotoScapePortable;
QuickSys RegDefrag 2.9;
Recuva Portable 1.38.504;
Revo Uninstaller Portable 1.89;
USB Webserver 8;

Alguns programas.
Poderiam simplesmente estar entrando em contato com os desenvolvedores e fazer acordo para embalar!! O que acham??

Hello everyone.

I've recently started working with the "PortableApps.com Launcher 2.0".

I have an issue I can't get around:

Briefly :

I need a way of accounting for a changing data directory location, that cannot be accounted for using environment variables(of windows or the launcher's internal vars). I could solve the problem if [FileWriteN] allowed for wild-cards(*,?) - or it was possible to define custom variables.

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The launcher .ini file:

[Launch]
ProgramExecutable=InstantInvoiceCashBook\InstantInvoiceCashBook.exe

[FileWrite1]
Type=replace

After carefully followin the "guerilla guide" posted by oliver specifically the registry changes section, i created a launcher for orbit downloader.. Now when run the launcher it goes back to the default settings..I created almost 26 keys under [RegistryValue] specifically for HKCU.. The app stores some .xml & .dat files in %APPDATA% folder..

I'm using 2.0 beta 5 pre 2.

I was updating Apps, but the firewall blocked the download of additional parts (Skype, ...)

The update didn't succeed for these Apps, but at the end the message said it was successful.

Later on the Update functionality showed no need for updates although Skype was not usable any more.

regards
Tom