Portable App Development

I created a registry rapper for those programs that do not use settings files within the program directory. It uses the registry settings exported to a .reg file to keep your settings and clean the system. It will also back your local settings if there is an locally installed version of the application and then re-add them on shutdown of the portable version. The complete instructions are included in the readme.txt file. It also includes a proof of concept example using Angry IP Scanner, allowing you to see how it works.

Would anyone be interested in this? I whipped one up last night and it works like a charm. I did use the official one though, so you will have to add your own executable in the "gnotify" directory. If there is any interest, I will have to find some way to host it, unless of course Rob wanted to host it.

@rmccue:
Take a look at this for the dev team. Just give me your email address and I'll send you the complete one. However when we host it, we will have to leave out the executable as per Google's license agreement.

-Justin

OK I was thinking about this the other day
1)Get rid of all unnessicary junk
2)Find out which, if any, registry keys it uses
3)Learn command line parameters
4)Report back here

Hello everybody. I'm new here. ^^
I've found a nice software, a portable dock, RK Launcher.
Don't know if somebody already mentioned about this.
Hope you guys love it.

rk launcher main forum.
http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/forumdisplay.php?f=81

Is there a way to easily change the properties of John's launchers?

For example, I'd like to change PortableFirefox.exe's icon and cut down the comment section so that it isn't so darned long (it shows up in the autorun box)!

And while I realize that there is probably a way to recompile the launcher to have this changed, that is an overly complex method for those of us who rely on most portable app's ease of use and would rather not touch the code ourselves.

~Abecedarian

Okay, all this talk of using NSIS to make an app portable has got me intrigued. And then I saw the post about an NSIS Dev team and wondered what resources you've used to learn how to make an app portable using NSIS. I usually just dive into a new language and teach myself, but I thought I would ask this community if there are resources you've used to learn how to create portable apps.

I've done a very brief scan of the net on 'NSIS and portable apps' to look for 'how to' sites, but could not find any. I did notice that the Winamp.com NSIS forums look like a great place to get ideas and ask questions.

OK heres my idea.
What about a NSIS Dev Team?
And maybe we could get special titles on the forums
Then we could work together on projects

Portable Google Talk will no longer be supported or hosted. Please use Pidgin Portable or the online interface instead. I don't have a copy of it, so sorry for any inconvenience.

Rob Loach [Website]

WARNING: Portable WackGet will no longer be hosted or supported. Use DownThemAll Firefox extension instead.

I noticed that WackGet seemed to be quite a popular program here on the boards when it came to download managers. The problem is that it isn't truly portable, it saves its settings to the registery. This is when I decided to do up Portable WackGet.

This mainly directed at John but I'd be interested in other points of view, too. Why the use of NSIS?

I was interested in making a few tweaks of some of the portable apps I've downloaded so I downloaded NSIS. This lead me to discover that it's really for building installation scripts. As such it seems it might be somewhat limiting when trying to use it more as a general purpose language. Comments?