Portable App Development

I know this site is mainly about creating a portableapp version for non portable softwares. But what if you're the programmer him/herself? How would you make your program portable from the get go? Assuming it's a standalone program without registry access or anything.

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I'm make an application portable.
The application use some registry settings.
First i have export the registry settings:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ODBC\ODBC.INI\ArgusCold]
"FULCREATE"="D:\\Argus Cold"

Then i put the registry settings in the file Installer.ini:

[CopyLocalFiles]
CopyLocalFiles=true
CopyFromRegPath=HKLM\Software\ODBC\ODBC.INI\ArgusCold\FULCREATE
CopyFromRegKey=D:\Argus Cold

But it does not works. The application give a error message.
What went wrong, who can help me ?

Hello,

I'm new to Portable Apps and converting some apps which I need.
Now I'm searching this (such a) Portable Apps Splashscreen,
which I can customize. Probalby there is a XCF/PSD file
available. Because there look all similar. SumatrPDF, Gimp2, etc.
But where? Can't find such a "template"

I'm having trouble launching a "beta" portable app I posted here:

https://portableapps.com/node/22791

It seems that something changed since platform v. 1.0 but I can't figure out what's making my launcher fail.

Any clues as to how to debug this?

Thanks

Does the portablapps.com spec allow DLL registration (at startup) and de-registration (at shutdown) via regsvr?

In other words, can a portable app launcher take care of DLL registration?

Thanks

I had found a new portable app (author made it not portable, but it is portable)
I makes no registry entries or files
it is The Regex Coach
unpack, add splash screen and sfx and it is ready to use
http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/

Some applications have their own splash screen.
Maybe in those that it is appropriate you should just add a PortableApps.com logo to the corner, instead of completely changing the splash screen so we wont lose the splash screen image of the original App?

For example: GIMP

Hi,

I noticed that most portableapps.com launchers have the same splash image (eg. 7-zip portable). I would like to know if a template image is available so I can craft my own for a new portable app I'm preparing (my first try at it).

Thanks

I want to make a launcher that launches an app after it closes another one...

I'm trying to make Abobe Flash Player Portable and I made a little exe that deletes the cookies you make on the computer and replaces them with original cookies that were on it (if any) but I don't know how to edit the Firefox Portable Launcher so that it launches the "cookie monster" after you close firefox.