Portable App Development

Ok, so I'm trying to set the enviroment variable in NSIS for a program, and this one is from John's aMSN launcher for the UserProfile path. I tried this, and the programs settings are created in the Data folder under "Data\settings\Application Data\AppName"

I was wondering if the PortableApps.com Installer was going to be released with the exceptions for freeware/non-gpl-opensource programs soon. In the latest version of Thunderbird Portable it still only has the exception for PA apps. If not might it be possible for me to get permission to use it with Xenon and keep the MIT License?

Hi!
This is the First Commandment of portable software, isn't it? Well, may be Second. But any way, at the top of Ten Commandments.
While testing some apps on BetaTesting forum (and my own one, nobody is absolute :)), I noticed that many of them left traces in registry, in very common places like OpenWithList, MRUCache and so on. As for me, I just forgot to call the cleaning procedure after adding some new features to my app.

Is there a way to create the Silverfrost Fortran 95 compiler as a Portable App?

Is there a convenient way to create a Portable App menu item for a command line application?

I'm now officially opening this project.

The aim of this project to portablise each and every application from the OpenCDDisc. The current status of each is listed below.

• App name - Status/Project lead
• 7-zip - John Haller
• Abakt - John Haller (Unconfirmed)
• Audacity - John Haller
• Azureus - Ryan McCue
• Battle for Wesnoth - Geoff Shearsmith
• Blender - Geoff Shearsmith

For everyone who wants Claws-Mail made portable i am currently working on it and will relase it to beta section as soon as i get the first working beta done.

Hello all,

I don't know if such a topic has been discussed before. I search the topic discussed so far but could not find a close match to my request. My challenge is that I am developing a web browser application that can used to request data from USB human interface device (e.g. USB data acquisition device). My appication is a web page that access the USB device via an activeX control.

Hi I'm trying to build a launcher for an open source game. The launcher seemed fairly easy to build because the game only leaves behind one setting file on the host computer and that's it, there's no registry settings. But I've hit a bit of a snag I don't know how i'd go about setting a path to the appdata folder since it's location is going to be different depending on the persons username. Is there any sort of wildcard function i could use? if not is there anyway to get around this?

I noticed that some folks that post programs here, make a note that it needs admin rights or not. As a policy here on portableapps.com, does it make a difference to the the creation of a portable app? Like we shouldn't post apps that have only admin rights or not? I mean I understand that it means that not everyone can use it if they are at a computer w/o admin rights, but other than that?

I ask because more often times than not, I am at a computer with admin rights.