Portable App Development

Hi folks,

in this post we had a discussion on how to set file type associations permanently on a system, so that a "document.doc" file launches my portable software when I click on it.

In addition to the Unicode plug-in test TAKE 2,
I found out that ${registry::RestoreKey} is not waiting to return till the process of restoring the key is finished. Which has the potential to give random results when a .reg file to be restored is a fair size and/or additional registry handling is being done straight after restoring the .reg file(this is what PAL will do if there is more then one key to back-up/delete)!

Hi,

I'm using portable applications for some times and now I would like to try create one by myself.
I read forum posts and text on site but I'm not sure how to do it or from where to start.

Can someone show simple step by step process for single .exe program or point me on right direction.
Putty, Process explorer or something similar.

Thanks.

How do I create portable software? I mean like the portableapps.com ones that go into app data and other. Will thinapp do this for me? Or do I need other software?

Thanks in advance

Due to some problems on specific version(s) of Wine, I've had to re-write registry::_RestorKey from scratch.
So here it is !

Explanation of the test:

1. Gives you the option to use the debug messages(yes) or not (no).
2. If yes, Regedit.exe will be executed to follow the happenings in the registry
3. Then it restores a .reg file to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PA.c[Test]Key
4. It will move this key to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PA.c[Test]Key-Backup
5. It will save the last key to $EXEDIR

Just a quick note to say that I'm working on a portable download manager. Started yesterday and is coming along nicely.

Primarily developing it for me. It's written in C# .NET. I know many people don't like .NET as a portable solution and I understand that. However, it suits me and may be of benefit to others.

For the moment, you can check it out at https://sourceforge.net/projects/portabledm/ and hoping to make maybe two releases a week, maybe more. I intend to make it totally free, including source code once I get out of ugly Alpha.

Imagine you have an app, which has multiple exes, each one for a different function.

Having multiple icons for each one in the main PortableApps.com menu isn't very desirable for many users.

I can imagine 2 solutions for this:

1. Making the main application icon expandable for the extra icons.
   Imagine a structure like this:
   Blah blah blah portable
   -OpenOffice Portable
   OpenOffice Writer Portable
   OpenOffice Impress Portable
   ...

When creating a Portable App, if I have the EXE in the App/[program name] folder, like in most if not all of the official applications released, how do I create a launcher stub program, like "7-ZipPortable.exe" which points to App\7-Zip\7zFM.exe, for example?

Hello friends i have created an application Reg2Key.exe which extracts parent registry keys from a reg file. It extracts the keys that can be filled in portable application template.

It's setup will add a shorcut menu for registry files from where you can choose Extract parent keys and a text file will be generated of the same name as of reg file with all the parent registry keys that can be used in PAT !define Regkeys section.

I think it will help in creating portable applications with large registry entries.

please give a try to it and let me know how it works.

I just saw the posting for Mercurial Portable dev test, and something occurred to me.