Portable App Development

I have an app that requires a compatibility settings under Windows 7. In the registry, the setting is saved under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers as "C:\PortableApps\MyApp\App\MyApp.exe=REG_SZ:DISABLETHEMES". The problem is that the app path is part of the registry key name, and I can't find a way to set that and clean it up in Launcher.ini.

I've tried:

[RegistryValueWrite]
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers\%PAL:AppDir%=REG_SZ:DISABLETHEMES

Based on my previous Test Release Comment Generator, I've updated its backend and added a Beta Testing post generator to my web tools. Both tools now use an INI file to store data.

Also, I wanted some feedback on the example launcher.ini I'm working on.

I need to move a folder in and out of %APPDATA% so I have this in the launcher INI:

[DirectoriesMove]
folder=%APPDATA%\folder

The folder is moving fine but if there's a local one present it isn't backed up.

If I debug the launcher I'm getting the ${DebugMsg} "Matching directories for $1 discovered, deleting $0" message instead of ${DebugMsg} "Backing up $4 to $4.BackupBy$AppID" message that I would expect.

I also used this with EAC:

[DirectoriesMove]
EAC=%APPDATA%\EAC
AccurateRip=%APPDATA%\AccurateRip

I am using 5PCs in paralell to work on. On all PCs the Data is kept in sync by Dropbox.
I use 3 PortableApps installation on all PCs located in the Dropbox-folder.
* There is one PA installation with Apps specific for this PC.
* There is one PA kept in sync on all PCs to have setups off Apps like FileZilla accessible on all PCs
* There is a PA for testing Apps-usability also kept in sync on all PCs

I am working with PA to have the Apps separated from the OS.

Since I am using 3 or more PA-Plattforms on one PC I would like to have the menus personalized.

I would like to make a portable app launcher that will NOT have the Minecraft data built in, but will do a simple temporary change of the %APPDATA% variable to make Minecraft store all of its data on the portable device. I can set up a whole batch file to do it all, without a GUI and simple backup on hard drive, (possibly) I just need someone to help me set up a PortableApps launcher/installer. Does anybody have any ideas/ways you can help to get this project DONE???

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Hi,
I've been trying to create portable version of a popular IDE.
I assembled all the data on the PortableApps template, and ran the PortableApps.com Launcher, App Compacter and Installer over top of it.
Unfortunetely, it is leaving data behind - when I switch computers it resets to the default settings, and when I return to a computer I have previously used with the portable version it restores the settings.

What am I doing wrong?

Adopted by comparing the two snapshots performed with Regshot I found out, that the application (hereinafter shortly called as App) has created some registry entries and folders in the user account. Now I make an "AppPortable.paf.exe" file, by which these registry entries and folders are not stored permanently on the local host computer. These steps I like to call as the first test phase.

The last couple of days has seen a true tsunami of updated apps... I'm loving it!

Just saying...

Application: Subcommander
Category: Development
Description: Subcommander is a stand alone gui client for the Subversion version control

[Link removed, my project and this isn't portable anyway - mod Chris]
(MD5: bc3c18b0bb156481af4f0d5a84d19ace)

Release Notes:

Created Portable App of Subcommander 2.0.0 Beta 5: (08-08-2011)

I maintained a portable emacs+ org-mode for myself. Please refer my webpage http://www.nd.edu/~gsong/portable_emacs.html for more detail.

For update emacs or any mode, just download and overwrite the old one. And set up .emacs file.

Hope it is useful for some of you.

Best,