Portable App Development

I've had an idea for a program which I'll have a go at doing once I have some spare time. The idea is to protect your important files from prying eyes if you lose your USB storage device. This requires a little explanation... bear with me.

I have not been into PortableApps.com for long, but I find it highly useful. But there are a few things that have been bothering me. These are not complaints mind you, they are just a few suggestions that came to me.

1. Dependencies:

I know this probably isn't the best place to ask on, but I figured someone here might know... it'll save me signing up to the NSIS BB.

Before I go and starts saying why I compiled this well here are the specs.

Program: Media Player Classic
Codec Package: CCCP13 filters Pre-installed.
Compression Used: UPX Mass Compress 2.0
Total Space: 8.94 MB on disk.

Internal Filters: Disabled.
Extranal Filters: CCCP Loaded Filters. ".\Filters"
SnapShotPath: Not Set.

Please Read the Read Me for best results.

Ive been working on an Auto Update installer.

It works by first adding a new Sub Menu item onto the PA Menu to check for updates. This then closes the PAM and launches the Auto Update util.

The util works by contacting a web server and downloading an update.ini which it reads. The update.ini lists things like what the udpate name is, where to get it what to do with it etc etc.

It then downlods, applys the update, checks the version and finsishs, it also can handle errors and if the versio is the same.

This is the latest version of my additions to the PAM. These include the unfinished eject when exit to the now addition of changing wallpaper. It will change the wallpaper to one in "App/DefaultData/Wallpaper/MyWallPaper.bmp". It will change it back to the previous wallpaper after exiting. I know the eject might be bothersome to some(an extra message box on closing), but I might get different results and be able to fix it. Anyone wanting thier hands on a newest "beta" of some needed changes, please try this out.

Is there an offical .paf.exe layout yet?
also, how do you edit the SFX archives to allow custom icons?

I'm making an application and would like it have a native portable edition that can be installed easily in the PortableApps menu, however, I can't see a clear way to do that just yet. It seems almost everyone has only dealt with apps they know too little about to do anything but make a native version to run from a key.

Hi Everyone

Today (or was it yesterday?) the latest version (1.1) of the Mozilla Seamonkey suite was released.

see: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/releases/seamonkey1.1/README.html

I have created a version of seamonkey portable based on the latest v1.1, which uses a script to re-direct the profile into the local folder.

Here's a challenge for you. I have an app which depends on a font (PowerTab Editor), and I'm interested in making it portable (personal use only, of course). Is there any way I can do this? The app won't run without this font because the symbols in it are crucial to the function. There's no way to configure the location of the font within the application or in configuration files, so it's a case of temporarily installing the font, or somehow making the application think the font is installed. Any ideas?