Portable App Development

I have some time to kill every couple days, and a basic understanding of programming, so is there a guide that's a bit more detailed than the one at https://portableapps.com/development ? I want to see if I can take programs (open source, obviously)that are already psuedo-portable (like in a .zip or .7z archive), and just make a .paf out of that. Nothing special, just writing paths, adding a splash PA logo, and then making the .paf itself.

Hi!

I'm working on my first PortableApp which is using %APPDATA% folder for storing settings. Is it possible for the Launcher trick the app so that it could use Data/settings directory instead of %APPDATA% or should I recompile the application?

I'm in the process of putting together a portable build of Perl based on the fully open source Strawberry Perl distribution. The intention of this is for it to be placed in CommonFiles for use by other portable apps, like portablized Java is now.

Here's a little background on how strawberry perl is set up followed by my opinions on how to proceed:

I was wondering about this, because I'm talking to my friend who's doing a project for school, and part of it is, he's running a game to show his project's results.
the game he's running is THPS3(Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3) PC, and he was asking me if it would work to copy the program files to his portable hard drive, and run it off that.
I told him I assume it would not work, due to required registry files, but I'm not 100% sure on that.
if it did require registry files, would there be a way to emulate these entries without having to add them to each computer's registry he runs it on?

Ohh, I love PNotes. So I had to create a skin.

Name

PAM Compact

PNotes-Version

3.x

Size

270 * 331 pix

Preview & Download

Your MrElchNotes in love

I made a simple PAF spec page, with other pages. It can be found at:
http://nascent-project.org/digitxp/PAF%20Specs/PAFSpecs.html
You can download the whole thing at:
http://nascent-project.org/digitxp/PAFSpecs.zip
If there's anything wrong, just tell me.
This goes with my PAF Template, found at:

Hi!
After using you'll noticed the first time that there's a big hole in your display.
That's not very funny, guys!

Name

Broken Display

PAM-Version

PAM-Mod R25 to R31

Size

406 * 573 pix

Preview & Download

Cheers, there's also a big hole in my stomach
Your MrElchbau

SetACL - http://setacl.sourceforge.net/

SetACL is a set of routines for managing Windows permissions (ACLs) from the command line, from scripts and from programs.

Here is a function / macro that can be used to delete stubborn registry keys (like those left behind after driver uninstallations in the HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\LEGACYxxx keys). At least a few people might find this useful.

AutoIt -

$setacl = '"X:\path\to\SetACL.exe"'

Func _SetACL_DeleteKey($key)
	; check if key exists
	RegRead($key, "")
	If @error  0 And @error  -1 Then
		SetError(@error)

I've been working on a Winamp launcher to apply a reg key for the pro registration. I previously posted about this here (https://portableapps.com/node/12246), but decided to bring this up in this forum because it is more about development now. I've been using the PuttyPortable source and changing it so that I can use it with winamp. The only problem I have now it that the launcher will not use the registry entry in the \Data\settings folder.

I was trying to portableize a program that made registry entries in HKLM and HKCU. I was thinking about duplicating the registry section in the launcher to handle both. But it gets a little too complicated. Anyone know how to use NSIS to drop rights for a program? Anyone?
And while I'm at it, does anyone know how system::call works?????