Portable App Development

I have an App that is not portable, but it is self contained in a folder... it's not portable because it leaves a *.conf file in Docs&sets/user/AppData/... even copying that file into the App folder it creates the conf file again.

My question is... How can I make a launcher to 1) read the conf file from the App folder, copy it into the AppData folder, and launch the App... and 2) close the App, copy the conf file into the App folder and delete the AppData file???

After not being on this site for some time, I found new applications that sounded good. I downloaded them; a few where amazing, like Notepad++ Portable, and a few where not. The ones that were amazing looked professionally done; what I thought was expected from portableapps. On the other hand, some of the other ones just looked like, keywords...looked like, they were done fast, without much thought, and didn't look easy on the eyes. This is the first time this as happened, and I hope it is the last time it will happen; because of this new idea.

Dear John,
First let me appreciate you for the concept behind this site and outstanding portables. The way of thinking, designing and updating the 'wonder' portableapps.com is really a jewel to your crown. As a newcomer to this site and portable concept I would like to say that u are one of the 'genius creators' in the field.

I've been looking at the U3 technology and I noticed that the launchpad copies the application to the C:\ drive first, then runs it from there.

Is there a real benefit to this? I mean, isn't the app loaded into memory anyway? Is there a functional benefit to running the app locally vs from the portable drive directly?

Thanks,
Andrew

Hi
i did find how to make photoshop cs2 and cs3 portable version

i need a portable version of photoshop cs2 or cs3 ,with bridge

could you help me?

thanks have a nice day

Wouldn't it be cool if the PortApps menu was part of the background of your computer?
Things could be positioned over it without closing it. Let me know if this is stupid.

Beta 3 is almost ready. Full GUI support for adding additional windows now works.

I had a thought though. It gets annoying having a message comes up when the user clicks an exe or com file on first run. This message is displayed because so far, CAFE handles all unmanaged extensions the same way.

My question is, should I rewrite that section so CAFE will ignore exe and com files, and just let the host computer handle them normally, or should I leave support for them in CAFE?

I found good proxy server. Its free and opensource. And i think it can be used with Tor. http://delegate.org
Anyone can make it portable? I know thats it write settings in Documents And Settings folder, but no info about registry...

I found this Open-Source GTK paint program, it's actually a pretty good program. It would be cool to work with GTK and stuff, and now with John's common files setup, I could probally work that in. Here's a few links, I'll play around with it a bit more, it's not Paint.NET, but it's still pretty good, let me know if you guys have any reasons why I shouldn't give it a shot.

And John, please let me know if you already have, or plan to do this one yourself. Because I know my version will just become pointless if you release a version.

not sure if this is where this goes, but everytime i run the portable apps menu, it loads a new copy of the program to the menu bar.

i would recommend that if it is run again it no longer loads a new menu, rather display the old menu that is already running.

im not sure if this is clear, but im just putting it out