Portable App Development

I have been editing the Delphi source that John handed out with the last release so I could add in removing the drive after exiting.(Like u3) I am getting an error code 5. Could someone with more Delphi knowledge help?

Here is the code I added into the imgCloseClick event procedure:

var
h: THandle; i: integer;   Drive: String;  dw: dword; bback:Boolean;  errorstr:String; sq:integer;
begin
//This part will eject the drive and exit, but will throw an error if it can't. 
Drive:=  ExtractFileDrive(Application.ExeName);

Hello

Im trying to make game portable and i need some help.
To make it work i need some kind och batch or nsis script that edits a certain file called Hospital.Cfg
The contents of the file:

INSTALL_PATH=[the path to where the game and file is located]
INSTALL_TYPE=MAX
LANGUAGE=ENG

The thing i need the script to do is to when it's run it changes the INSTALL_PATH value to the current location. This way the game can be run from anywhere.
Someone know how to do this?

I take it NSIS was used to create the installers but can anyone give me any pointers for wrapping up my own apps?

I tried the wizard in HM NSIS edit but that is a full blown installer rather than a simple zip extractor.

Or are the installers made in something else?

Thanks

Hi,
I am the Systems Admin for my company and would love to be able to create a portable Lotus Notes Client. Is this possible if has one been created but not released? Any info or help on creating one would be great. That the moment I use Thunderbird with IMAP to receive my E-Mail. However, I do not have any access to the databases with Thunderbird. The company NOtes developer is not developing the Databases with Web access compatibility so accessing it via Firefox is not possible. Again any help with this would be great.

I'm not sure this is the right place to post this, but i was playing around with the splash screens for the apps on this site, and if you use the "Flatten Image" option in GIMP, then save the splash, the size for a majority of the splash screens is nearly cut in half. Not only does this save space because the splash is smaller, but if you recompile the launcher after doing this, the launcher takes up less space at all.

can i have a portable apps suite download in zip format? please..

I found out a way to make portable apps. I was very rushed when making this, so please post any problems here.

EDIT:Updated to 2.1 Download 2.1 here

What can be done about an application that works with registry, and working under a limited account? now registry can't be edited in anyway.

I found two portable apps that are very useful- 7-zip and AbiWord.Have always used Firefox (now 2.0.1) which the whole program directory was just copied to my USB Flash Drive. With a little tinkering it worked pretty well and complete with the add-ons, except I never realized I was leaving tracks on other machines. Of course, I have now switched to Fx Portable. I have found out that most of my favorite web apps (download manager and WinHTTrack are inherently portable.

Is the source to the StartPortableApps available anywhere, Ive looked on source forge and im either being really dense or its not there. Im also guessing its another fine NSIS script?

Thanks