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18/10/1999 20:47:17
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Visual FoxPro
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00277883
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>Why don't you include those files in the Setup program and do their installation from the Setup?
>
>Vlad
>
>>On older computers that do not have IE4 or later, this is what I had to do to get HTML Help to work in VFP applications.
>>
>>First, download the HHUPD.EXE file from MS. Select the correct language to download.
>>
>>I then created a small VFP executable for each user to run. The code is as follows:
>>set talk off
>>set safety off
>>copy file foxhhelp.exe to c:\windows\system\foxhhelp.exe
>>copy file foxhhelpps.dll to c:\windows\system\foxhhelpps.dll
>>run /n foxhhelp /regserver
>>run /n hhupd.exe
>>
>>Change the paths above for NT workstations as needed.
>>
>>I then place the EXE, foxhhelp.exe, foxhhelpps.dll and an empty foxuser.dbf/fpt file all in the same folder. The foxhhelp files are in the VFP Home() directory. Tell the user to double-click the VFP executable you create from the code above.
>>
>>Then in your applications all you have to do is include a line early in your main PRG --
>>
>>SET HELP ON
>>SET HELP TO MYHELP.CHM

This would be ideal, but I am not sure how to duplicate what HHUPD.exe does [does it register anything, etc.] and how to do the foxhhelp /regserver in the setup. Plus, this was a supplemental install after the users had installed the original app. I did not need them to re-run the entire install process. My LAUNCHER.EXE updated the actual APP that runs.

For my next APP and future new installs for existing APPs, I will do some extra digging to see if I can add all of this to the SETUP.
Mark McCasland
Midlothian, TX USA
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