Re: Installing Delphi App & Informix Client
In article <33666c64.43622686@jhb-news.iafrica.com>, root@root.root.tree.root.root.leaf.root (Stefan Paetow (see the signature below for address)) wrote: >On Tue, 29 Apr 1997 09:07:49 +1100, Adam Sorati <asorati@link.com.au> >wrote: >>First is this possible with Installl Shield (I don't think so) and >>if not has anyone else been in this situation, because I would >>appreciate some advice. > >It should be possible. You include the install of the Informix Iconnect32 >in the installation and set InstallShield Express to launch the Informix >install whenever you want. InstallShield Express (at least the version shipped with D2) cannot launch other programs. >>Also, is it possible to set my own default values for I-Connect >>to use when it is installed. > >Not as far as I know, especially because Iconnect has a seperate >installation routine. You may of course always use InstallShield to set >those values if IConnect uses either the registry or an INI file to store >the settings. You can manually configure all of Informix's registry settings. Look in HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Informix and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/INFORMIX We wrote a program that sucks the values out of the registry and restores them later on another machine. INFORMIX: You should supply such a program too! NILS : Don't even *mention* OpenLink :-) We also decided not to "roll our own" I-Connect installation into the main installation, because reverse engineering the Informix install is a pain (that we don't want to continually have to do) and we thought we *should* use the "proper" installation technique supplied by Informix. Cheers, Kerry S PS: Spam-proof address like: root@root.root.tree.root.root.leaf.root are about as irritating as spam itself. ------------------------------------,------------------------------------------ Kerry Sainsbury, kerry@kcbbs.gen.nz | THE INFORMIX FAQ v2.8 March 1997 Quanta Systems, Auckland | http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/ New Zealand. Work: +64 9 377-4473 | ftp://ftp.iiug.org/pub/informix/faq Home: +64 9 279-3571 | ftp://kcbbs.gen.nz:/pub/informix/