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VB and Open EXE from CD
Name: stroke6463 Date: February 1, 2005 at 12:33:45 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: 933/256
Comment:
Heres the situation. I want to put my VB6 program onto a CD and have it autorun(I know how to do that) but certain buttons in my program have to open EXE files. The program works great from my c: but that is because they have complete paths to the EXE. I want to be able to burn my program and the EXEs on a CD and goto another computer and run it. Is there some kind of code for "cddrive"\program\program.exe? Thanks.
Name: wizard-fred Date: February 1, 2005 at 13:04:43 Pacific
Reply:
All you need to do is include in your program the path to the executable file. The problem will be to identify the drive letter of the CD. And make sure that no attempt is made to write to the CD. You could create a workspace on drive C.
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Response Number 2
Name: StuartS Date: February 1, 2005 at 14:09:36 Pacific
Reply:
Putting a VB programme onto a CD and expecting it to work on another computer is nigh on impossible.
All except the most trivial of VB programme requires some support files and unless those support files are installed on the target PC, it is not going to work.
Putting the support files on the CD wont work either as the have to be registered with the target PC before they can be used.
Stuart
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Response Number 3
Name: Chi Happens Date: February 2, 2005 at 03:42:08 Pacific
Reply:
Right, use the Package and Deployment wizard that comes with VB6.
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