>>>I need to have a running version of VFP on a CD. Is that possible?
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>>>I mean, I need to user to be able to execute the main.exe program from the CD and enter in a VFP EXE without having to install something on the local drive.
>>I tried running from a readonly drive and the exe is ok. I don't see how you can get around the local install/registry issues though.
>>The runtimes wouldn't be found and if you 'install' to the CD it would have to be a WROM yes? Interesting problem - would be great for demos. How would you handle the licensing??
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>I need to distribute a CD every 4 months with updated information. I also need to build an interface that the client will be able to use to access the CD data. So, I will do a Visual FoxPro EXE for that purpose. As for the client side, I only want them to click on a file to load the application. I don't want them to have to install something on the local drive.
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>If all the required DLL are on the CD in the default directory, will this be ok. Of course, we suppose that the user will have Windows '95 or NT.
In the registry there are entries in the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT for VisualFoxProRuntime that have the path of the installed VSL500.dll. Would having the DLL in you primary path overide this? I haven't tried on a nonFox machine here (guess the last on the net got some vfp install recently) but if I rename the dll and copy to a default path I get nasty path messages. Since this a pretty poor way to try it I may have cause a side effect but when I renamed the dll in the windows/system (same path as in the registry) things are ok even with a duplicate dll in my project path?