Subject Re: Adapting InitNewUser.prg for own application
From Pieter van Heerden <psvh@mweb.co.za>
Date Wed, 16 Apr 2014 11:37:01 -0400
Newsgroups dbase.getting-started

Ken Mayer [dBVIP] Wrote:

> On 4/16/2014 7:19 AM, Pieter van Heerden wrote:
> > Pieter van Heerden Wrote:
> >
> >> I am not quite sure how to adapt the InintNewUser.prg and related files for my application.  Take the following scenario:
> >>
> >> 1.  Application name: "Sapwat3", will run as application on both 32-bit and 64-bit computers.
> >> 2.  Operating systems to run under: Windows XP through Windows 8, no foreknowledge and/or control over who will use the application and under what system it will be run (this also has an implication for how manifest files will be handled).
> >> 3.  No sub-directories under the application directory.
> >> 4.  Database alias and path:
> >>      - "sapwat"; c:\sapwat3\tables
> >>      - "sapwatweather"; c:\sapwat3\tables\weatherdata
> >>      - "sapwatdwb+; c:\sapwat3\tables\sapwatdwb
> >> .
> > I was hoping to get some response to this.  In the dBase book (Vol 2 p 225-226), Ken says that the program should be altered to suit one's own application.  I am not too sure how to go about it, therefore my request for assistance.
> >
>
> I tried tinkering with it and found it obscure and hard to work with.
> Which is why I didn't give any examples ...
>
> Ken
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So what do we do, do we ignore it?  How much of this type of set-up is included in the project explorer setup and included in the Inno setup?