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We are using "director8 demystified", by Phil Gross and Jason Roberts. It has a CD with many tutorials and also acts as a bible for lingo and director commands. I have found it to be quite useful. Using it, we created a fairly complex application in just 2 weeks.

You have to create an external file that stores the results of the test somewhere on the hard drive. That way when you create the CD, your program will still function because it is reading and writing to the external file.

The getenv("PATH") does not return the correct value if I execute a setup routine from a CD. The same program executed from the C: drive does return the PATH environment information, but I can't seem to get it to function if I initiate the program from the CD. Any ideas? Thanks, Scott.

I'm in need to determining whether a certain process is active on the system. This is a background process and all this program lives for is to stay active while the other process is active. Any ideas? Thanks, Scott.

Once a Setup utility has executed, I want to be able to control whether the user reboots the system or not. Is there an AutoReboot command in C++ that automatically restarts the system? Thanks, Scott.

First let me say that this is a great forum. You folks have helped so much periodically throughout the last month and a half. This problem is actually one of two of the last problems I have encountered. I have developed a front-end utility to determine an appropriate setup directory to...

Got it! It took me a little bit to work through the replacing of the file but I found that I replace the icon file and reload it when the system prompts you to do so. Thanks for your help. Scott.

When compiling and linking with the MSC++, my project is always compiling using the default bar code style icon. I have a different icon I wish to use as the default icon for the program and would like it to be displayed with the .exe program file for my project. How to do change the icon not...

Great! Thanks so much. Scott.

Does anyone have a reference to an example or a sample snippit of code that creates a folder? Thanks, Scott.

Try the following, as the form is opened, in the FormOpen event you can probably specify the recordsource dynamically by using me.recordsource = <name of recordsource> If this method works, you might want to create a table with the form names in your application and their associated...

There is only way that I know that is the most secure form, and that is to create a simple front end utility that starts the access database you want secured with the name of workgroup file embedded in the shell command line. If you know how to do this in C, or C++, or VB, that's probably the...

There are several things that you need to be aware of but they are only pertinent if you are converting modules. Other than that, what type of information are you getting as you perform the conversion? Scott.

Be sure the value in Me!txtID contains a value if the MachineID is a key to the shipping table, and/or especially if the MachineID has in the shipping table the property set to No for Allow Zero Length. Hope this helps. Scott.

Look under workgroup administration for securing your database. It requires that you create a different system.mdw file and then link the database to the file. That means anyone without the proper authorization would have a more difficult time opening the database. Another way is to place...