Portable App Development

I'm attempting to create a lazarus portable 0.9.30, but there is a problem with the PAL Launcher handling the environment variables file the file needs to be copied from the %defaultdata%\settings & %defaultdata%\profile locations, written before the ${AppID}Settings.ini file is overwritten, and then copied tho the desired location. In the PortableApps.comLauncherCustom.nsh file I imputed this code:

${SegmentFile}

Var LastAppDir

${DisableSegment} DriveLetter

${Segment.onInit}
${IfNot} ${FileExists} "$EXEDIR\Data"
	CreateDirectory "$EXEDIR\Data"

Application: Freeciv
Category: Games
Description: Freeciv is a Free and Open Source empire-building strategy game inspired by the history of human civilization. The game commences in prehistory and your mission is to lead your tribe from the stone age to the space age...

Greetings for you all!

I'm trying to create a portable version of Vectir. This is a handy little tool, which allows you to use your Bluetooth enabled mobile phone to remotly control your pc. I want to make the so-called server part of this tool portable.

I've created a launcher for this app, and it launches the app allright, however, the app still creates a directory on my local hard drive to store its settings in it. I tried to figure out how to make the app use the VectirPortable\Data\settings directory, but the more I read, the more confused I got.

Hi friends,
This is my first portable app and hope it does not have any errors in it.
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Hi everybody,
I have a problem with DirectoriesMove. I try to copy a directory from my stick to the hard drive.
It should be MyAppPortable\Data\MyDirectory -> "My Documents"

I tried it as mentioned on the site linked above.

[DirectoriesMove]
MyDirectory=%DOCUMENTS%

But this copies everything from "My Documents" to my stick. As a result I exchanged the two parameters.

[DirectoriesMove]
%DOCUMENTS%=MyDirectory

But now nothing happens...

Hi, ...

OpenTTD v1.1.0

Latest release in stable is v1.1.0 = (x86) (x64)

It have now, an x64 build.

http://www.openttd.org/en/download-stable

I have the old v1.0.5 portable version. Please made v1.1.0 (x86)(x64) portable.

When GoldenDict Portable was first released, a user noted that sound dirs wouldn't work, and a bit of digging showed the problem to be with GoldenDict's built-in portable mode. I posted a RFE on their forum and received the following reply from one of the GoldenDict devs:

Hi there,

Maybe a noobish question to ask but i'm reading some threads here and there but it still doesn't get me my own portable app.

I have installed several tools:
- Launcher
- Installer
- NSIS
- AppCompactor
- Development Tool kit
- Templates

But then what?
I have run all tools but i'm still stuck with an exe that i would like to have portable.

Isn't there a short tutorial guide on how to create your own portable app from scratch with a fresh downloaded exe ?

Hi everybody,

First, I want to thank all of you for making me keep trying new things without worrying about my PC's stability... thank you

I just decided to join this community and will help as much as I can!
So I start it easy! Fofix is already portable itself (I'm not really a gamer but played this one for few days and liked it),
so I just had to make a little launcher.ini to make it fully portable

(I think!)

Some help needed please:

I noticed that the people from the PDF Toolkit have taken up developments again and issued new releases of their command-line tool.
Could this be a cue for either Angus Johnson or people from PortableApps to consider further improving their excellent PDF-splitter-joiner-rotator-whathnot tool?

Angus does not provide contact details on his homepage, so I thought maybe PortableApps knows how to contact him.
Cheers,
Stephan