Sorry, I couldn't tell you. I've never used Installshield. I use Inno Setup or Advanced Installer or Wise Installer for Windows. But from what I've read about installshield you should include the VFP9 runtime merge module in the installation and that should handle the registering for you.


>Frank:
>
>Thanks.
>Strange though, I never had to do that with other VFP installs (Installshield Express for VFP 7). Is this new with VFP 9's Installsheild?
>
>Mal
>
>>Hi Mal,
>>
>>when installing the VFP9R.DLL to the Common files folder you need to "Regserver" it. How you do that depends on what installation tool you are using.
>>
>>>To all that tried to help .... THANKS.
>>>To all that may be interested. I added the following files to the actual application directory and all is well:
>>>
>>>VFP9R.DLL
>>>VFP9RENU.DLL
>>>
>>>I thought these files went to c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\VFP\ and were read in by all VFP applications. Is there a setting I can set to have my applicatioin look for the above files in the "shared" directory?
>>>
>>>MAL
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi:
>>>>
>>>>I'm a little lost and would like a little help.
>>>>
>>>>The following works find compiled using VFP 7 and loaded on a new Win98 machine.
>>>>
>>>>I have a logical global variable, "glTable", declared PUBLIC in my main.prg of the project.
>>>>When I "run" the program from the project manger, all is well.
>>>>When I create an EXE and run it on the same machine, the one with VFP loaded, again, all is well.
>>>>
>>>>However, when I load the program on a new WinXP machine, my program complains that it can't find variable "glTable".
>>>>
>>>>I thought global variables were available throughout an entire program once delared PUBLIC.
>>>>
>>>>Any ideas?
>>>>
>>>>Mal