Portable App Development

Hi,
I've been trying to create portable version of a popular IDE.
I assembled all the data on the PortableApps template, and ran the PortableApps.com Launcher, App Compacter and Installer over top of it.
Unfortunetely, it is leaving data behind - when I switch computers it resets to the default settings, and when I return to a computer I have previously used with the portable version it restores the settings.

What am I doing wrong?

Adopted by comparing the two snapshots performed with Regshot I found out, that the application (hereinafter shortly called as App) has created some registry entries and folders in the user account. Now I make an "AppPortable.paf.exe" file, by which these registry entries and folders are not stored permanently on the local host computer. These steps I like to call as the first test phase.

The last couple of days has seen a true tsunami of updated apps... I'm loving it!

Just saying...

Application: Subcommander
Category: Development
Description: Subcommander is a stand alone gui client for the Subversion version control

[Link removed, my project and this isn't portable anyway - mod Chris]
(MD5: bc3c18b0bb156481af4f0d5a84d19ace)

Release Notes:

Created Portable App of Subcommander 2.0.0 Beta 5: (08-08-2011)

I maintained a portable emacs+ org-mode for myself. Please refer my webpage http://www.nd.edu/~gsong/portable_emacs.html for more detail.

For update emacs or any mode, just download and overwrite the old one. And set up .emacs file.

Hope it is useful for some of you.

Best,

Hi,

I'm needing the PAL to register and unregister a DLL on launch. I have added RegisterDLL to launcher.ini (though it was supported in v2.1) but it still does not work. Is their anyway to get it to reg/unreg dll(s)?

Thanks


[RegisterDLL]
1=%PAL:AppDir%\SmartFTP\sfFavorites.dll


Now Portable Apps finally has program groups, like [illegal suite], and is becoming a lot more attractive and useful.

But we need detailed instructions on how to add an application that is not offered by Portable Apps, but found elsewhere.

How can such an application be added, and to a specified program group (and not just generally)?

How can a new program group me set up?

How can applications be moved from one program group to another (e.g., one created new)?

I'm just wondering if before launching the app the launcher cold read the appinfo.ini and if a version of .NET is required, determine whether the correct version is installed, and either warn the user and exit, or then run the app.

WinDirStat isn't appearing within the latest PAM PR. I suspect this is because it's PAF 1.0. Can anyone verify this?

I've tried compiling a portable version of a game, and all seems to work fine until I launch the portable launcher.

When I start the launcher the screen flickers as though it's changing the resolution as it should, then it just quits and I'm presented with the following error message:

"Sorry, unable to find required files to run. Please check your working directory or reinstall the game."

It also creates a file in the directory called gamenamestatus.dx9
(substitute "gamename" with the game's actual name.)

Any ideas?