Portable App Development

I have a few apps which are basically portable (they run from a single directory, without saving anything to the registry or local disk). For example, ToME (roguelike game), 4NT (command processor, commercial, "inikey" version"), TCI (tabbed console interface, commercial, "inikey" version). They certainly don't make enough of a mess for me to be bothered working out how to write a full-scale "Portable" version.

Is the portable version of NSIS available? I can't seem to find it anywhere. The only link/reference I have found is to portasoft.org, which seems to no longer be in existence.

Thanks.
Brandon

I love the PortableApps idea ... and use it regularly. The ease of use with OpenOffice Suite and having Firefox available for it is great ... it would however be nice to also see Eudora available for it as well. I've tried Thunderbird a few times but just don't quite enjoy it much, maybe I'll eventually get used to it.

I'm trying to do my first attempt at creating a portable app and I am having difficulty in understanding what and where to do with registy information. below is the registry changes as noted when using RegShot. Do I put these in an external file (ie:portable.reg) or do they go within the ApplicationPortableTemplate.nsi (and if so where and how are they formated - example using below would be nice :-)). Finally, it sounds like I don't want absolute paths as shown in the registry entries below - what should I change them to?

I have made a Bible that works on Palm, Pocket PC, EPOC and Windows.
It has been made in Doc format (.pdb and .prc) meening it requires programs to read it.
I would love to make cross platform portable Doc reader and need help.
The programming language I know is VB ASP.NET (Used in websites and sometimes standalone applications)

If you want to help either email through the "Contact me section on my website(www.LukeFranklin.com)" or post a reply.

I want replace "Explore" with "Total Commander".
TotalCommander at \PortableApps\TotalCMD\TOTALCMD.exe
Somebody can help me?

Hello All,

Good day.

Having a USB Disk with all the necessary Portable Apps is cool and very handy. But it lacks something.

I was wondering if anybody has successfully iinstalled a Windows XP embedded with all our beloved portable applications still working. This setup I believe would certainly make our USB drives independent from the main OS of a PC.

Any advice or tips that would shed light to this would be very much appreciated.

Thanks All

At my community college we have a problem with losing our jump drives. Could someone create a splash screen app that we could enter our info such as

"if found please return to..."

something that could maybe open when protable apps is started? If there is such a product please let me know. Thanks everyone for all your hard work and keep up the great innovations.

I just released ASuite 1.4 stable version. For who doesn't know it, ASuite is an application launcher (like famous PStart, but ASuite is opensource launcher ) for USB sticks, hard drives, iPods, etc...

Major changes:
- Added function to sort list
- Added new launcher options (custom tray icon, font options, hide tabs, etc...)
- Added scheduler
- Added window for Scan folder
- Added Update System
- Rewrited function Search
- Bugfix

Project page (on sourceforge)

I know why, it's because I turned the DPI setting
in windows to 150% (144pdi).
I have to do this, because it's a Dell notebook
with 1920x1600 pixels. Without the higher DPI, i
cannot read anything.
A lot of programs have problems with this setting,
as some elements (fonts, graphics, widgets) automaticly
become bigger, but the program does not enlarge it's
windows.
This should not be difficult to solve.
Would one of the developers be so kind and have a
look at this problem?

-- Karl