Portable App Development

Hi.

This is my first post here and I have looked around just briefly so this might already have been discussed.

I'm looking in to making a portable apps suit where I have the apps in a place that can be read only and the data separately in it's own path.

Why?
Then I can run from the same place (eg network drive or DropBox) on multiple computers without using the same data.
And I only have to manage the apps in one place.

I am working on registry input/export for Qt Creator Portable, and I need a way to clear empty section from an INI file.

Qt Creator does something that seems odd to me with the registry. Instead of having a registry key that contains the path to a directory of file, it recreates the file structure in the registry. So one of the registry entries would be:

On some installers I get this message about testing installer integrity (or something to that extent) and I was wondering... What is that all about? does Windows look at the installer for viruses or something. Is this something the installer is supposed to do? Why does it only show up on some installers?

With the publication today of a security advisory from Microsoft regarding the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package, how is PortableApps going to handle updating all the apps that use this library? (I didn't look, but I assume there's more than a few).

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS09-035.mspx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BTSz5z4kA0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsDkZD-fduQ&feature=related

I'm working on a Qt Creator Portable, but I am having some difficulty getting Qt Creator for find the files on the portable drive.

I've run RegShot to track file and registry changes. Qt Creator doesn't appear to use the registry at all, instead it uses an INI file. I've set up QtCreatorPortable.exe to modify the INI file to point to the portable installation, but it still doesn't find it. Where else might a program put settings information?

I'm trying my hand at creating a portable version of MUSHclient (mushclient.com) and I keep running into an error I can't figure out. Would appreciate any help in this matter. Here is the error when using the PortableApps Installer:

SetOutPath: "$INSTDIR\Other"
File: Descending to: "..\..\Other\Source\"
File: Returning to: "..\..\Other"
File: "..\..\Other\*.*" -> no files found.
Usage: File [/nonfatal] [/a] ([/r] [/x filespec [...]] filespec [...] |
/oname=outfile one_file_only)

I need a Thinstalled internet explorer 7 for my project. But what ever I do, the portable IE7 has disabled textboxes on a maschine where internet explorer 8 is installed!!! So no text can be entered in webforms, also no rightmouse menu and the aboutbox gives errors ..so its useless..
Any suggestions??

almost done creating vuze to a portable application...just need help fixing the configuration files and as far as i know after that is done im done with the program, but then again im not sure, again, as far as i know i am creating a vuze launcher, so all help is appriciated, and please feel free to help all you can

Hello, I am currently working on making multiple applications into portable apps, the only problem i am facing is that i would like to know what program to use to make a launcher, I would like to make a launcher for Halo Custom Edition that offers 2 options, one to run the main executable , and another to run it with some paramaters, it would probably look nice with a GUI of some sort, the rest will not need a GUI but for halo it would make it a lot easier and nicer.