Portable App Development

I just came across a big problem in the Spybot S&D thread again, which should be addressed once and for all — if anyhow possible: Windows’ “Special Folders” like %APPDATA% or “All users Application Data”.

Windows addresses special folder locations via so-called CSIDLs, and starting from Vista, it uses what we call KNOWNFOLDERIDs. It is vitally important to use these instead of trying to hard-code stuff like

i cant understand how to make an app portable ive been trying cant really find a way to make any programs portable i would really love to know

I've been trying to get a working copy of Scribus 1.3.9, and I've run into an issue where when I start ScribusPortableTest.exe, scribus.exe gets started like it should, but it doesn't do anything, other than use up my memory - taking it to 100% in no time. Here's my launcher.ini, properly named of course: http://pastebin.com/k3KQ3Zdu

If that isn't the issue, could someone take a look the package for me, and tell me if I'm doing something else wrong that's causing this?

I'm making my first app and struggled a while to get the PortableApps.com installer make the installer to my app. It kept complaining about no exe file on the AppName folder when its defined to be somewhere else on the AppInfo.ini. I had to copy and paste it there just to get the wizard started. Specially when I'm defining the files to be downloaded.

Am I missing something?

Hello,

I recently found PortalApps and I'd some idea about making one of my game portable, Vindictus.
But I've the following problem : the game won't run until a key is missing in the registry and this key is located in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
Since I want to use the game on my school computers, I don't have privileges to add this key with a simple .reg file. So I'm asking you if there is a way to bypass the privileges? or simply change the folder of the key to HKEY_CURRENT_USER by modifying a file or maybe use the key in a .ini file?

Here is the key I've to add:

I'm confused. I've added a post to the Apps Ready For Official Release, Post Here thread expecting that the app would be added to the Portable App Directory but there was no follow-up. So I looked at some of the older posts and I don't see any of those apps in the directory either.

Is anyone monitoring that thread? How are we supposed to publish our portable apps?

Thanks,
Metalogic

I think someone suggested me to look about the most basic nsi script i.e in through sumatra pdf's script.. I looked throughly it.. It has "Rename" for file moving between data dir and program dir. Now how do i move t settings folder from(for example) data\appnamesettings\xxxx to %APPDATA%...

I saw this code somewhere
[Launch]
CommandLineArguments=-appdatapath"%PAL:DataDir%"

So does the program assume Pal:DataDir to be applicationdata of the computer..

I'm totally losing my mind.. Does moving a settings file/folder of any app from data dir to any location like %APPDATA% and back to data dir after closing the app make it portable or not??

Is there any possibility to change directory (application specific directory) before launching the application?

I'm writing a launcher for an application already installed on the system in use. As I often have to change the settings (a lot of registry values) I exported them as set to files and would like to import them and then start the application automatically. So my PortableApp is not a real portable one, it's just a tool helping me to manage the different configurations.