Portable App Development

Edit3: Installer works correctly, the launcher issue was fixed, and a development test 3 was posted here.

Edit2: Installer works correctly, and a development test 2 was posted here.

Edit: Launcher code removed, I think it works correctly now, and a development test was posted here.

Please note, I'm NOT suggesting this for a portable app for this site.

I use Nero and Recode a lot. Unfortunately Nero makes a big mess when it is installed and I would love if I could make a portable version which could be tugged away in, and launched from, a single folder. Clean in, Clean out. No mess.

Is there a reason that every other folder in the paf format is capitalized but the ones under Data (settings, profile) are not? Did a forum search on 'capital' and didn't find anything relevant...

Due to a significant change in methodology a new thread was started here

Sorry for any confusion.

If a mod could lock this thread I would appreciate it. Thank you.

Cleaned up by Mod MLM

I'm looking at portable-izing something that uses GPG. My hunch is that it would be good to put GPG in \PortableApps\CommonFiles\gnupg or something like that. But I notice that Thunderbird Portable seems to have ThunderbirdPortable\app\gpg as the place it looks (unless one uses the optional ThunderbirdPortable.ini).

I suppose if installing on a removable device without TBP I could create the TBP directory tree and use gpg from there (or try to).

Or I could just put a copy in another \apps\gpg ...

Or I could see if I can get CommonFiles\gnupg or gpg or something working.

Hello,
using portableapps, 2 suggestions came recently to my mind

1. Ability to configure the position of the portableapps menu on the screen. In my desktop configuration the Windows menu bar is located on the left side of the screen (meaning the portableapps quick launch icon is located on the bottom left corner). It would be more convenient if I could open portable apps menu on the left of the screen too.

Hello everyone.

Simple, simple question to which I want to be 100% sure and I don't want to misread or some crap alike that I'm perfectly capable of screwing up royal!

I want to use some Portableapps in here, with a custom launcher (not the PA.com menu) for my work place. It is a government organization therefore no profit will be made from or trhough the use of this piece of software or anything included. Is this okay? Am I free to redistribute this budled up launcher to my co-workers?

Right now I'm trying to make my first app, with the PortaLaunch Launcher. I got it good to the most part, but I can't find how to do the Installer. (I'm somewhat fluent with NSIS). I'm uploading what I got so far, If it'll help (the source to tuxtype is almost impossible to find!). It's here. Thanks!
Later:...

Here's a script I've been working on to automatically UPX all exe & dll files in the App\[app] folder and its subfolders. It compresses with the recommended settings, and does a upx -t on each resultant file to make sure it decompresses correctly. If it doesn't, it automatically reverts to the backed up original copy. If it does the backup is deleted. It's written to be run from the Source directory of the app. Two variables need to be set, UPXBIN points to the upx.exe binary and APP is the name of the root app binary folder.