Stephen R. Zayko
szayko at secor.com
Tue Aug 5 09:07:30 CDT 2003
Thanks ALL!
This has been a great help and let me avoid the hours of experimenting
with the many different ways to get the same thing.
Stephen R. Zayko, P.E.
SECOR International Inc.
2321 Club Meridian Drive, Ste E
Okemos, MI 48864
(p) (517) 349-9499 ex24
(f) (517) 349-6863
(m) (517) 204-5136
szayko at secor.com
www.secor.com
-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of dave sharpe
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 06:09 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] System Root
Stephen
The environmental variable ( systemroot ) is what You need.
I hope that the following helps.
Dave
=============================
Sub ttest()
Dim aroot As String
aroot = Environ$("systemroot")
Debug.Print aroot
End Sub
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen R. Zayko" <szayko at secor.com>
To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'"
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 5:50 PM
Subject: [AccessD] System Root
> Group:
>
> How do I determine if the system root is C:\Windows, C:\Winnt, or
> something else in VBA? I would like to call a program in
> %SystemRoot%\System32 from a shell function but
>
> intX = Shell("%SystemRoot%\system32\calc.exe",1)
>
> does not work. However, one of these will work if it is calling the
> correct root directory name:
> intX = Shell("C:\Windows\system32\calc.exe",1) ' For Windows OS
> intX = Shell("C:\Winnt\system32\calc.exe",1) ' For NT OS
>
> Thanks in Advance,
>
> Stephen R. Zayko, P.E.
>
> SECOR International Inc.
> 2321 Club Meridian Drive, Ste E
> Okemos, MI 48864
>
> (p) (517) 349-9499 ex24
> (f) (517) 349-6863
> (m) (517) 204-5136
>
> szayko at secor.com
> www.secor.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike and Doris Manning [mailto:mikedorism at ntelos.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 02:47 PM
> To: szayko at secor.com
> Subject: RE: [AccessD] Runtime Driver
>
> Here you go... Function CheckConnection is what you will need to look
> at.
> It uses to constants that are set up at the top of the module.
>
> Doris Manning
> Database Administrator
> Hargrove Inc.
> www.hargroveinc.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen R. Zayko [mailto:szayko at secor.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 02:36 PM
> To: mikedorism at ntelos.net
> Subject: FW: [AccessD] Runtime Driver
>
>
> Doris
>
> Thanks for the offer. If you could e-mail it to me at this address I
> would
> be very grateful. Also thanks for putting the 'mail me offline'
remark.
> Those tend to quell the 'me too's. I think that this will be just
what
> I
> need. I will post to the list if this works.
>
> Thanks
>
> -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 Mike and
Doris
> Manning
> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 12:32 PM
> To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> Subject: RE: [AccessD] Runtime Driver
>
>
> I've got code that checks for a specified SQL Server System DSN and
> creates
> it if it doesn't exist. You should be able to modify it to work with
> MySQL.
> Email me offline if you want it.
>
> Doris Manning
> Database Administrator
> Hargrove Inc.
> www.hargroveinc.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 11:41 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>
>
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