Runtime files

[Bill Jaynes]

I just bound my application on W98/SE FMP5 and it runs fine on the

host machine. Next, I burned it to a CD and all the files appear;

9 of mine, the runtime, a slew of DLL's and something else. Wanting

proof of portability, I fired up an NT 4.o machine and copied what files

I could see to a new folder. Didn't see the DLL files though, any idea

why that might be? The app wouldn't start either. "No DLL's, no nuthin!"

thanks,

Bill

[BruceJ]

No sure exactly what happened there, I'd suspect that the Win NT machine has pref set to hide the DLL files and you just never saw them to copy them and/or they were set to read only through the CD copy process.

My problem with burning CDs is that just copying the files to the CD and then copying them to a machine results in files that are READ ONLY, and you have to right click on preferences on each file and change them. The way around this is the first Zip the files or runtime app folder, then copy it to the CD, when you add it to the new machine and then unzip it, it's exactly like it was before it was zip. You can get free Zip applications at www.winzip.com

[ May 05, 2001: Message edited by: BruceJ ]

[Bill Jaynes]

Bruce,

Thanks again! I've been on this project for many months and

your help is very much appreciated.

Bill

[LeoSchlife]

I have a similar problem, but a little different. When I move the files from a disc, change the properties from "Read Only", the application will not start. I get a message that the application can not find FMTool.dll. It is on the disc and all the files were moved over. It doesn't always happen, but seems to be happening more and more. Any hints?