Stephen R. Zayko
szayko at secor.com
Tue Apr 8 11:22:12 CDT 2003
I was just going to use the VBA Package and Deployment wizard that comes with the Office 2000 Developer CD. I have had it for 3 years now and never had a need for it until now. -Z Stephen R. Zayko SECOR International Inc. 2321 Club meridian Drive Ste. E Okemos MI, 48864 517 349 9499 ph 517 349 6863 fx szayko at secor.com <mailto:szayko at secor.com> www.secorlansing.com <http://www.secorlansing.com> > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Charlotte > Foust > Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 11:50 AM > To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com > Subject: RE: [AccessD] Runtime Driver > > > What are you using to build the installer? One of the script driven > installers, like Wise or InstallShield should allow you to do this. > > Charlotte Foust > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stephen R. > Zayko > Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 7:41 AM > To: AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > Subject: [AccessD] Runtime Driver > > > Group: > > Is it possible to include the drivers needed for a runtime > solution? I > have an A2K database which I would like to package as a > runtime. It is > an A2K FE with a MySQL BE accessed via ODBC through the web. Trouble > with the distribution is that people must install the MySQL > ODBC driver, > and then create/link to the machine data source of the MySQL > database (I > think I said that right). > > What I would like to do is this... > > Create the runtime with the drivers and the source database info. Then > when a user unpacks/installs the runtime, > A: The MYSQL driver installs on that machine and > B: The ODBC data source is created with all the needed info. > > A looks pretty simple to do. You just include that in the files to be > included during the packaging of the app. B however, I am not too sure > about. Can I do this through code? Has anyone else done this before? > > thanks in advance. > > -Z > > Stephen R. Zayko > > SECOR International Inc. > 2321 Club meridian Drive Ste. E > Okemos MI, 48864 > > 517 349 9499 ph > 517 349 6863 fx > > szayko at secor.com <mailto:szayko at secor.com> > www.secorlansing.com <http://www.secorlansing.com> > _______________________________________________ > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 2804 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://databaseadvisors.com/pipermail/accessd/attachments/20030408/7e48c858/attachment-0001.bin>