Portable App Development

Is it possible to make a shareware product a "Portable App"? What are the steps?
Thanks for any reply.

Lifehacker has a post for a (portable) program that makes your screen look like you placed a drop cloth over it. All the screen is blanked out (transparency and color can be set) and only the task bar and your active app are "normal"...

http://lifehacker.com/software/distraction/lifehacker-code-dropcloth-win...

If you are interested...

Rich

I just discovered Steves Libertà page at PortableApps.com (For the curious, it's here)
So my question is: Is there any list of all the project pages here or are they like eastereggs on DVDs, only revealed by people who found them by accident and reveal their existence to the public like me

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