Portable App Development

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.

Hello all,

I really appreciate the effort of every one in this forum. I have really acquire alot from your postings. I am currently developing an application (ActiveX control), which can be to use to configure Human Interface devices through a web browser (IE7).

My application is running from a flash disk. When i logon as administrator, my application works perfectly. As a standard user, I cannot register the control.

Idea:
Make a toolbox with a usefull tools like:
- a disk cleaner
- treesize
- etc etc.

This has been driving me batty for about and hour...

Error: resolving install function "InitVariables" in install section "Main" (0)
Note: uninstall functions must begin with "un.", and install functions must not
Error - aborting creation process


If anyone has any ideas please share.

If I could talk with someone who's managed to create starters and get my stupid questions answered I'll write a Dummy Guide afterwards - a guide for those of us who cannot get it going with present information on forum etc etc.

By 'talk' I mean over msn. My msn is paedrigh -at- ardan-nights.org, add me if you feel up to the task (it will only take a couple of minutes).

There is a development IDE called ConTEXT that is already set up to be portable - it runs right from the directory it's installed and nowhere else.

Is there a way I can add this to the PortableApps menu?
I would love to be able to write the code to make the paf.exe installer, but unfortunately, I don't have much time. So, if the code is relatively short and sweet, please let me know how.

Thought these might prove useful to you.

The first, upax.bat UPXs everything within the current directory (and subdirectories) with the standard options used by John. You need to put both this and upx.exe in your path somewhere, like C:\WINDOWS\system32
The second, pangout.bat uses pngout to compress all .png files within the current directory (and subdirectories) and automatically answers yes to any questions.
The final, cleanup.bat is a companion for upax.bat and deletes all the backup files (.ex~, .dl~).

i was wondering if anyone was planing on making the portable apps menu customizable.

like color change and whatnot

thanks for reading

I am in need of some icons for various file types like images, videos, folders, etc. Where would some good ones be? I need them for a program I am almost done with (file manager).