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Article #7Re: Im well stuck now - HELP !!!!
From: Mike Dombrowski
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 00:00
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Richard Curtis wrote: > > I have got a question for you that no-one has been able to answer. I have > trawled the Web, looked in News Groups, been in IRC conferences etc but > no-one can help. > > I have written my program in VB5 Professional <as part of my A-Level in > Computer Science>. > > The thing that I wish to do, is quite complicated. > I want to add a small function to the Install Shield (express) for my > application. I > can do this much but the actually program is killing me. I am trying to use > it to firstly check if the OS is MS Win 95 OSR Release 2. The reason for > this is that i want to use one of the screen savers from it. After > determining whether it is OSR 2, I then want to use the InstallShield to > change the current screen saver to the flying objects one with the option > set to the flying texture. I need to change the texture to that of the BMP > distributed with my program. > There are two ways I can do this. i can either write a DLL in VB / C++ > which when > called by InstallShield will automagically make the changes or I can write a > small exe file in VB that will do all of the changes. Getting the > InstallShield to call and run the program or DLL is the easy part. The part > I need your advice with is the creation of the DLL - e.g., what functions do > I use - is it win API or what ? > > If anyone can help or can be bothered to, I would appreciate ANY help > offered. > > Cheers > Richard Curtis > > Ps, Rather than reply to the NG, can you reply to > Richard_Curtis@Earthling.net ? You might want to check in the system regestry. To add or change a value write a .reg file and SHELL "regedit theregf.reg" and sendkeys enter (wait). P.S. If you like making freeware and arn't with a group can you sign up for Mike's Software? http://surf.to/miked.dell.2578/join.html -- -Mike Dombrowski -Mike's Software -http://surf.to/miked.3068/ -http://surf.to/miked.dell.2578/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 108717,1583a3bbd6df332f X-Google-Attributes: gid108717,public X-Google-Thread: 11493c,1583a3bbd6df332f X-Google-Attributes: gid11493c,public X-Google-Thread: fa732,1583a3bbd6df332f X-Google-Attributes: gidfa732,public X-Google-Thread: 1136b3,1583a3bbd6df332f X-Google-Attributes: gid1136b3,public From: Mike Dombrowski <Mike@pooh-bear.com> Subject: Re: Im well stuck now - HELP !!!! Date: 1997/12/17 Message-ID: <34984A73.6A5@pooh-bear.com> X-Deja-AN: 299138577 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <679d8p$drb$1@plug.news.pipex.net> To: Richard Curtis <Richard_Curtis@earthling.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@erols.com X-Trace: winter.news.erols.com 882395786 6990 207.172.253.56 (17 Dec 1997 21:56:26 GMT) Organization: Mike's Software Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: Mike@pooh-bear.com Newsgroups: microsoft.public.vb.installation,microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion,installshield.express.vb,comp.programming