Portable App Development

How do I create portable software? I mean like the portableapps.com ones that go into app data and other. Will thinapp do this for me? Or do I need other software?

Thanks in advance

Due to some problems on specific version(s) of Wine, I've had to re-write registry::_RestorKey from scratch.
So here it is !

Explanation of the test:

1. Gives you the option to use the debug messages(yes) or not (no).
2. If yes, Regedit.exe will be executed to follow the happenings in the registry
3. Then it restores a .reg file to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PA.c[Test]Key
4. It will move this key to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PA.c[Test]Key-Backup
5. It will save the last key to $EXEDIR

Just a quick note to say that I'm working on a portable download manager. Started yesterday and is coming along nicely.

Primarily developing it for me. It's written in C# .NET. I know many people don't like .NET as a portable solution and I understand that. However, it suits me and may be of benefit to others.

For the moment, you can check it out at https://sourceforge.net/projects/portabledm/ and hoping to make maybe two releases a week, maybe more. I intend to make it totally free, including source code once I get out of ugly Alpha.

Imagine you have an app, which has multiple exes, each one for a different function.

Having multiple icons for each one in the main PortableApps.com menu isn't very desirable for many users.

I can imagine 2 solutions for this:

1. Making the main application icon expandable for the extra icons.
   Imagine a structure like this:
   Blah blah blah portable
   -OpenOffice Portable
   OpenOffice Writer Portable
   OpenOffice Impress Portable
   ...

When creating a Portable App, if I have the EXE in the App/[program name] folder, like in most if not all of the official applications released, how do I create a launcher stub program, like "7-ZipPortable.exe" which points to App\7-Zip\7zFM.exe, for example?

Hello friends i have created an application Reg2Key.exe which extracts parent registry keys from a reg file. It extracts the keys that can be filled in portable application template.

It's setup will add a shorcut menu for registry files from where you can choose Extract parent keys and a text file will be generated of the same name as of reg file with all the parent registry keys that can be used in PAT !define Regkeys section.

I think it will help in creating portable applications with large registry entries.

please give a try to it and let me know how it works.

I just saw the posting for Mercurial Portable dev test, and something occurred to me.

Hi guys & girls

First, I have no idea about internals of the SDK.
Second, my questions might have been already asked, please excuse me and redirect me.

I've tried portable skype & pidgin. Hope I'm not the only who checked the processes in Task Manager (TM). And it's very strange that each X application has two own process: XPortable.exe (1) & X.exe (2). Obviously (1) launches (2). And it's the fact that (1) could be easily killed in TM: (2) continues running as usual.

So the question: why not to quit (1) process after (2) has been launched?

Hi folks,

I was just wondering how I can alter Trillian Astra to be able to work WITH THE INSTALLER.

I have made it so that it is portable and can go anywhere and do anything with it, but I can't work it into the installer to make it installable to wherever needed and for anyone to use so that it can be easily updated.

Is there anyone that is capable of assisting me in this way to get it into the installer?

Ok hopefully this can be done with [MoveFiles} I am using PA Launcher 2 beta 3

Here is situation:

I have a file called jajuk.bootstrap in the %USERPROFILE% directory. I have made a copy and placed it into the %PAL:AppData% directory. I would like to remove the original from the %USERPROFILE% and have it upon the start of the program write the AppData file to UserProfile folder. Then when program shuts down return it to the AppData folder.

I have tried ever combo I know of to accomplish this but can not do it