Hi,
Thank you for all of this info. I will grab a cup of coffee and try to digest it.

I will keep you posted. BTW. What is GDI+

Neil

>You need:
>GDI+ runtime
>VC++ 7 runtime (not C++, but VC++)
>VFP8 runtime module
>The english (enu) resource content is built into the VFP8 runtime.
>So for an english app, that's all you need. However, the docs say you also need the XML merge module (use highest version, I think) if you are going to use any XML capabilities of VFP8.
>
>BTW: Be careful trying to re-use your VFP7 installshield projects with VFP8 distribs. For example, I let IS convert my IS project into its newer format, as was required by IS. That was to carry over my VFP7 distrib. Then I made a copy of that as the foundation for the vfp8 distrib I wanted to build, and pointed things to the vfp8 distrib folder that I had populated with the actual files. But I ran into some absolutely baffling problems where certain exe files would simply not appear in the IS file list while I was working with the project. No error messages or anything. Just missing file references even though the files were there. It was like chasing shadows. So I gave up and created a new IS project for my VFP8 distrib and that seems to work OK.
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>Some IS features now available:
>- Set permissions on target folders / objects. Very handy to solve some problems I was having with Win XP installs leaving behind overly locked-down folders.
>- Ability to do upgrade installs.
>- Ability to specify what happens to files that already exist.
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>It seems to work, if you have an existing VFP7 app installed with support files and the usual ancillary stuff occupying an app folder hierarchy, that you can build vfp8 versions of your exe's and distrib them with just the vfp8 support files mentioned above, same installdir as with vfp7, and things will install OK to upgrade your exe's, install the vfp8 support libs, and leave everything else alone.
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>Also beware with VFP8: _screen.icon needs to be set in your code. The icon you use in project manager is not applied to _screen as with VFP7.
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>>HI,
>>
>>I just installed vfp8 and see that installshield is now version 3.5 sp4.
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>>What Objects/Merge Modules should I check so that my vfp8 application installs properly.
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>>for example, when I distributed a vfp7 app I included:
>>all of the c++ 7.0 and the foxpro 7 runtime module along with some other files
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>>But with vfp8, there are 8 Microsoft visual foxpro 8 resource files and 1 Microsoft visual foxpro 8 runtime libraries selection.
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>>Regards,
>>Neil