Portable App Development

According to the post NSIS How PortableApps Work require changes in the hive HKLM administrator rights. Does this mean that a program can not be made portable, when it creates registry entries in the hive HKLM?

I don't think this was posted before (brief search), but I want to know how PortableApps work before I get started, and not just the really general stuff. First, I saw some other guide online, and it says that a portable launcher runs the program, and then copies all it's user data back to the PortableApps directory. I don't know if this is true, or if PortableApps virtualizes everything like ThinApp.

Looking for some guidance - I'm trying to create a portable version of an app that creates its own subfolder in "My Documents". My understanding of the documentation for the launcher is that I should be able to use the FolderMove to move this subfolder back and forth from the PortableApps drive but I'm not clear as to the best location for the files on the drive.

Does the folder need to be under the "Data" folder to comply with the PortableApps specification, or can I move it from the PortableApps Documents folder to "My Documents" when launching the app and back again afterwards?

(I posted this idea on the Test Releases page, but I thought I'd formalize it in a post.)

There are so many applications that seem to have ceased development or have disappeared from the PA.c landscape that are sitting on the Test Releases page. Some of the applications that seem to have gone kablooey still seem like they would be valuable to be continued, or have people who would like to see them continued. I have also seen some applications where the original developers don't have the time to (or want to put the effort into) maintaining and updating releases.

Is it possible to paste *.dll files in the system folder system32 of the Windows OS by the usage of the following code:

[FilesMove]
xyz.dll=C:\Windows\system32

Or will this intention eventually prohibited through administrator privileges?

Hello,

i installed portable apps on my USB-Stick successfully.
After i put it in i got a windows 7 splash screen which let me choose an action (import videos and pictures, open folder, ...).
I always had to start PortableApps manually by starting the "Start.exe" in the top folder.

Isnt it possible to autostart it when i put my usb-stick in the port?

i edited the autorun.inf as following:

[Autorun]
Icon=PortableApps\PortableApps.com\App\Graphics\usb.ico
Label=PortableApps.com
open=Start.exe

But nothing happend. I always get the splash screen.

I was thinking that maybe the awesome people here could create a Adobe flash and Macromedia flash portable client.

it might solve some main issues with updating the main install on the host computer if you can't update it or the website says it is updated but when u go to play a youtube video it says to update Flash player even though the site says that it is fully updated!!!

hope u can do this cause i think people would like it

Hello,

I am new with portable apps and I am trying to write my first NSIS script. I would like the app Ekiga to be portable:

Section "Main"
ReadEnvStr $APPDATAPATH "APPDATA"
CopyFiles /FILESONLY $EXEDIR\Data\settings\ekiga.conf $APPDATAPATH\ekiga.conf
FileOpen $0 $EXEDIR\App\Ekiga\ekiga.bat w
FileWrite $0 "set PATH=%PATH%;$EXEDIR\GTK2-Runtime\bin$\n"
FileWrite $0 "cd App\Ekiga$\n"
FileWrite $0 "ekiga.exe$\n"
FileClose $0
StrCpy $EXECSTRING "$EXEDIR\App\Ekiga\ekiga.bat"
Exec $EXECSTRING

i think that this program should be made into a full portable app

Hey there. I'm having a strange issue with my app ProTeXt Portable. After fixing a bug reported by a user where I needed to change AppInfo.ini a little, I noticed that the icons don't show up for either part of the application. I rebuilt making sure that the icons were included properly in the .exe's and still they show up with no icon in the launcher.