Portable App Development

Hi! I have a game I develop that I want to see portable.
The game itself is already portable, persay. uses only relative paths, and can use it's DLLs from the working directory.
No issue there.

HOWEVER, there is an updater, which is mandatory for continued play of the game.
This updater, written in visual basic, requires a DLL to be registered. It is called Z-Updater, and can be found on sourceforge.

If anyone can edit the source code of the updater to no longer require the DLL, it would be greatly appreciated.

Tell me please, I can not in any way solve the problem ...

Duplicate File Detector at startup creates a folder in the "common documents". I can not simulate the creation of this folder in [DirectoriesMove]...

my Launcher ini:


[Launch]
ProgramExecutable=DFD\dfd.exe

[DirectoriesMove]
Duplicate File Detector=%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\documents\Duplicate File Detector


I was wondering if it is possible to make Nero portable. Sometimes I have files that I need to copy and I am not around my computer, but the computer I am using has a cd/dvd burner. Being able to have Nero on a flash drive would be fantastic. Does anybody have some hints on how I would start this, or if it is possible? Thank you.

Hey there,

I am trying to use the path of a portable application in a registry value. Something like

!define REGKEYS "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Vendor\Subkey\Path=REG_SZ:%PAL:AppDir%\SubfolderofApp\"

apparently won't do anything. Any hints ?

[Moved from General Discussion to Portable App Development - mod Chris]

Hi
I´ve been working on a portable app, but i´m stuck on moving a directory from a registry key, that contains double back slash in the string, this is the launcher i've created:

[Launch]
ProgramExecutable=ThumbsPlus\Bin\thumbs8.exe
DirectoryMoveOK=yes

[Activate]
Registry=true

[FileWrite1]
Type=Replace
File=%PAL:DataDir%\settings\ThumbsPlus.reg
Find=="%PAL:LastDrive%%PAL:LastPackagePartialDir%\\
Replace=="%PAL:AppDir%\\

[FileWrite2]
Type=Replace
File=%PAL:DataDir%\ThumbsPlus\Thumbs8.ini
Find==%PAL:LastDrive%%PAL:LastPackagePartialDir%\Data\

Hello there! I am auctally trying to create my first PortableApp, because I am wanting to create my own Spiral Knights app. The problem is, how the heck do you create the EXE file in the main folder? I mean the [AppName]Portable.exe thing. How the heck do you create it?

Let's store java preferences in a file instead of storing them in the registry as noted in the launcher guide:

One way of storing settings in Java applications is with java.util.prefs. This stores its settings in the registry, in HKCU\Software\JavaSoft\Prefs\[package path]

I've made this a while ago and decided to share it with the community. This page takes the app data from a form and generates the content of a properly formatted comment for the Test Releases page, preventing the burden of editing the code directly and inadvertently removing some tag. It also automatically escapes special characters.

I have a question.... how can you (after making a portable app) upload it?

exist wrapper for normal Apps [exe], to become PortableApps? where found?