Charlotte Foust
cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Tue Mar 1 11:48:02 CST 2005
We market commercial apps that all include the runtime, currently XP. We can't count on our clients having the correct version of Access or the correct service packs or the correct libraries, and the runtime handles that. If you are going to use the runtime, do NOT try to use MS tools to create the installer. Invest in Wise or InstallShield and the SageKey scripts. They will see to it that the app you design installs properly on the target machine. There are some things to watch out for, including the fact that you do not have access to all the built in menus in a runtime version and you can't use the property sheet to bind objects to custom menus and toolbars, you have to do it in code. Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: Mark Breen [mailto:marklbreen at gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 9:09 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: [AccessD] Seeking your Access Runtime Experiences Hello All, As you may have seen, I am currently enjoying being up to my elbows in Access 97, a database with 1000 linked oracle tables and hundreds of forms, reports, queries, pass through queries, dynamically generated SQL etc and of course loads of code, no errorhandling and no comments and no documentation! A question arose a few days ago about migrating it to Access 2003 and using the Runtime version. I have gone online and had a quick read of what is required for runtime, at its simplest level it seems to be to build a complete GUI, which I normally do anyway. The only thing that I usually depend on is the filter by form etc context menu's. Have you guys any comments to make on using the runtime? Rocky, why did you not use the Runtime for EZ-MRP? I am guessing that you evaluated it and found it troublesome. Is that the case? In fact, I get the impression that most of us do not use the runtime, the question I am curious about is why? It is surely handy to lock down an app but is it a heavy handed tool? Thanks all for your advice, Mark Breen Ireland -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com