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Wouldn't it be simpler just to test for the presence of the screen saver
file?
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Richard Curtis <Richard_Curtis@earthling.net> wrote in article
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> 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 ?
> 
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