Portable App Development

The main problem inhibiting me from submitting Freecol Portable as a Pre-Release right now, is the problem of language switching.

Here's an explanation:

Freecol, in order to determine language for launch, looks at its main option file, and launches based on that. If it's set to automatic or not set, it determines language based on the Java locale.

The problem with updating the language in the option file is that Freecol, when saving options, does not save options with newlines between each one. This makes [FileWriteN] useless.

Basically, I've found some applications here that has helped me bypass my school's PC restrictions(obsolete software, web filters, etc).

I want to recommend these applications and Portable apps platform to my friends. I don't want them to download each package and install them by themselves, as they will think the steps are hard. So, I want to make a easy-to-install package, just like what the Portableapps team has did with the Suite.

But my only portable storage is my external HDD, and I don't want to overwrite the installation there.

Folder "DaleSoft Support\DaleSoft 2" in $APPDATA will not created and copied files back to Backup. I think the spaces are the problem...

Would be very happy, if someone can help me or give a suggestion, many thanks.

; **************************************************************************
; ==== Portable Start ====
; **************************************************************************

Section "Main"

IfFileExists "Backup\*.*" +1
CreateDirectory "$APPDATA\DaleSoft Support\DaleSoft 2"

Hi, I have limited experience of downloading portable apps: Google Chrome, OpenOffice.org, and Java JRE 20.

The impression I got is that there is no provision for resumption of a download in case the net connection drops, which is not too infrequent an occurrence especially for downloads of several MB.

Hey everyone.

I have recently done an online installer like the one in the google chrome installer andd have got the [downloadfiles] section fairly well knocked out, however it downlads the setup file, and leaves it at that. I need it to install to the thumbdrive. The following is my installer.ini file:

[DownloadFiles]
DownloadURL=http://www.mapwindow.org/download.php?file_name=http://svn.mapwindow.org...
DownloadName=MapWindow 4.8 RC1 Installation Files

Hi @ all
I don't know if that's the right forum. But I just want present a portable software, which you can include in the application-list:

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Program name: VocMinder
Description: VocMinder provides a complete, flexible system to train, manage and exchange vocables, sentence and grammar topics of foreign languages.
Version: 1.1
Author: Simon Wehrli, Stefan Wehrli
Type: Open Source (GPL); portable
Category: Education

Application: Database Browser
Category: Development
License: Freeware
Description:
This easy to use tool allows user to connect to any database and browse or modify data, execute sql scripts, export and print data
Download Database Browser Portable 3.2.2.9 [2.55MB download / 2.62MB installed]
(MD5: 851c0452901230144f077696b5dc2073)

Hello there,

I have modified the source for the VLCPortable launcher so that it does not have to rebuild the font cache upon every launch. I was wondering how I go about submitting it so that others can utilize the modified version of the launcher. Any help in this regard would be most appreciated.

I want to learn how to make portable apps for personal use and I thought I would start with Autoruns. This app only needs to set these registry entries...

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

; autoruns
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Sysinternals\AutoRuns]
"EulaAccepted"=dword:00000001
"onlinesearchcommand"="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q="
"shownomicrosoft"=dword:00000001

I read Creating A Portable App: A Guerilla Field Guide but I don't understand this section:

Become familiar with the launchers available. For instance:

I am working on Snarl, it has quite a few registry entries that are essential for the program. Not quite sure how I can copy them and get them to load with the launch with the app/ I HAVE read the launcher manual but still a bit confused. Do I have to do a registry write for each entry?

Here is a paste of the keys I believe need to be written.
http://tinypaste.com/9249a
Any help appreciated, or maybe this is too complex to go portable? If so I would appreciate knowing that as well.