The Portable Applications Template

From http://portableapps.com/node/2022:

This template should be suitable for most applications to make them portable.

Download it here:
http://www.loncarek.de/downloads/ApplicationPortableTemplate.zip

It allows saving a lot settings (one or all of them at once):
- One or more registry keys
- One or more settings directories
- One or more settings files

The source contains a lot comments, documenting what I did and why (for those who want to learn).

You could do some additional adjustments in the functions "Init" before calling the application and "Cleanup" after the application closed. I left them empty but prepared for very special customizations.

I took the main idea from the Quickport NSIS template developed by Deuce but rewrote it completely (and added some stuff)

This template has no specific license. Therefore I left the commented license section empty.
Everyone could use this template for creating portable applications out of standard applications (commercial or not). If you make a commercial application portable beware of the respective license terms. Nevertheless it would be nice to share the launcher application.

Just for fun (and testing) I created a NSIS version of a launcher for Inkscape. It works nicely.

Enjoy it and have fun with it.

I haven't included any handling of ini-files or some other directory structure as John usually does in his launchers. If you think it would be a good idea to have, please tell me and I'll add it.

Comments welcome.

NEW with version 1.1:
INI files and some default directory structures are supported now.

NEW with version 1.2:
added sleep time when deleting registry keys
adopted new directory structure as recently used by John (AppPortable instead of PortableApp)

NEW with version 1.3:
fixed a bug

NEW with version 1.4:
added handling for second launch
some bugfixes