Portable App Development

Basically, I've found some applications here that has helped me bypass my school's PC restrictions(obsolete software, web filters, etc).

I want to recommend these applications and Portable apps platform to my friends. I don't want them to download each package and install them by themselves, as they will think the steps are hard. So, I want to make a easy-to-install package, just like what the Portableapps team has did with the Suite.

But my only portable storage is my external HDD, and I don't want to overwrite the installation there.

Folder "DaleSoft Support\DaleSoft 2" in $APPDATA will not created and copied files back to Backup. I think the spaces are the problem...

Would be very happy, if someone can help me or give a suggestion, many thanks.

; **************************************************************************
; ==== Portable Start ====
; **************************************************************************

Section "Main"

IfFileExists "Backup\*.*" +1
CreateDirectory "$APPDATA\DaleSoft Support\DaleSoft 2"

Hi, I have limited experience of downloading portable apps: Google Chrome, OpenOffice.org, and Java JRE 20.

The impression I got is that there is no provision for resumption of a download in case the net connection drops, which is not too infrequent an occurrence especially for downloads of several MB.

Hey everyone.

I have recently done an online installer like the one in the google chrome installer andd have got the [downloadfiles] section fairly well knocked out, however it downlads the setup file, and leaves it at that. I need it to install to the thumbdrive. The following is my installer.ini file:

[DownloadFiles]
DownloadURL=http://www.mapwindow.org/download.php?file_name=http://svn.mapwindow.org...
DownloadName=MapWindow 4.8 RC1 Installation Files

Hi @ all
I don't know if that's the right forum. But I just want present a portable software, which you can include in the application-list:

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Program name: VocMinder
Description: VocMinder provides a complete, flexible system to train, manage and exchange vocables, sentence and grammar topics of foreign languages.
Version: 1.1
Author: Simon Wehrli, Stefan Wehrli
Type: Open Source (GPL); portable
Category: Education

Application: Database Browser
Category: Development
License: Freeware
Description:
This easy to use tool allows user to connect to any database and browse or modify data, execute sql scripts, export and print data
Download Database Browser Portable 3.2.2.9 [2.55MB download / 2.62MB installed]
(MD5: 851c0452901230144f077696b5dc2073)

Hello there,

I have modified the source for the VLCPortable launcher so that it does not have to rebuild the font cache upon every launch. I was wondering how I go about submitting it so that others can utilize the modified version of the launcher. Any help in this regard would be most appreciated.

I want to learn how to make portable apps for personal use and I thought I would start with Autoruns. This app only needs to set these registry entries...

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

; autoruns
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Sysinternals\AutoRuns]
"EulaAccepted"=dword:00000001
"onlinesearchcommand"="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q="
"shownomicrosoft"=dword:00000001

I read Creating A Portable App: A Guerilla Field Guide but I don't understand this section:

Become familiar with the launchers available. For instance:

I am working on Snarl, it has quite a few registry entries that are essential for the program. Not quite sure how I can copy them and get them to load with the launch with the app/ I HAVE read the launcher manual but still a bit confused. Do I have to do a registry write for each entry?

Here is a paste of the keys I believe need to be written.
http://tinypaste.com/9249a
Any help appreciated, or maybe this is too complex to go portable? If so I would appreciate knowing that as well.

OK Looking at Snarl as a portable app. It is written in VB6. Problem I have is that it stores files in APPDATA upon install. I copied them out and tried using PA Launcher to move the files back and forth. It only moves a few of files ( Using directories move). Now If I manually copy files all is good, but if I let the launcher do it it does not load all the files and then creates a default directory without all bells and whistles? Any ideas? BTW I am in contact with author who may be making a command line switch in a future build so the locations of hte files can be switched.