From: wog-NotThisBit-george@amd-p.com   
      
   "Jan Hyde"  wrote in message   
   news:rqbio2lmoenrrpe32ve0s3ei2s2fm5cogr@4ax.com...   
   > "Wog George" 's wild   
   > thoughts were released on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:32:18 GMT   
   > bearing the following fruit:   
   >   
   >>I need to create an EXE that is truly "standalone".  By that, I mean the   
   >>executable file is all that's required for the application to run.  My app   
   >>has a button that fires up a common control (to select a file), and this   
   >>seems to be my stumbling block.  When I try to run my program on another   
   >>machine, it complains that comdlg32.ocx is not registered properly.   
   >>   
   >>Short of creating my own form and writing my own code to browse for a   
   >>file,   
   >>can VB6 create a fully self-contained EXE that uses a common control and   
   >>can   
   >>simply be run without the need for the program to be installed?  It was   
   >>suggested to me that VB6 was what I needed (was using VB5 prior to now),   
   >>so   
   >>I bought an old copy of VB6 Enterprise especially for the occasion.  Have   
   >>I   
   >>been misled?   
   >   
   > You've been mislead.   
   >   
   > What do you have against creating a setup program though?   
   >   
   >   
   The program will be run on a couple of PC's in a corporate environment.  The   
   users don't have administration rights to install the application, and the   
   project would be over by the time I went through the flaming hoops to get it   
   released through official channels.  The idea was to just copy the file to   
   the users home directory or even run it from a flash drive.   
      
   All the program does is parse a huge text file and report the bits that we   
   are interested in.  It started life as VBA in Word 2003, but it was somewhat   
   cumbersome and became more cumbersome as I added more features.  I just   
   picked up the code, dumped it into VB5, and through a form over the top of   
   it.  It seemed like a marvellous idea at the time, but now I can only run it   
   at home.   
      
   --   
   George   
   "In the outside world I am a simple geologist, but in here I am Falcor,   
   Defender of the Alliance." - Randy Marsh - 4 October 2006   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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