Guygateway
Programmer
Good Morning Fellow VB Programmers.
I am in the process of making some final touches to the biggest VB Project I have ever assembled. It's a Number Game that grew past my expectations, and I'm ready to share it with the world, but, I'm not exactly sure how to proceed from this point. I have 2 separate issues that I'd like to ask you about. Any & all help would be very much appreciated. I'm working in VB6, in a Windows 95 environment.
Issue #1 --- DEPLOYMENT
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When I tried to deploy a small VB program a while back, I found that it would not run on a computer without VB6 installed. I kept getting a message about a missing file named "MXDLL6.0" or something. Now, I have a much bigger program I want to deploy nad am worried that it won't work.
The project I'm trying to employ has 18 forms, and 2 code modules. In addtion, there are 5 folders (which are to be accessed from the desktop), each containing 8 paint image files for various slide show documentation. One of the forms is a slide show program, and it reads and displays the paint image files.
My questions are as follows:
(1) How do I deploy this puppy? This project has a lot of forms, code modules, and 40 outside files.
(2) I'd like to generate my executable on a floppy. If 1 floppy is too small, will the deployment process automatically prompt me to supply the additional disks, as they are required?
(3) If multiple disks are generated for the executable, will a user be able to install/load the executable without any problems?
(4) If all goes well, a user should be able to run my program, Without having VB6 installed on their PC, right?
Issue #2 --- SHAREWARE DISTRIBUTION
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Once I have successfully deployed this puppy, I'd be interested in distributing it as shareware. I've been told that sites like ZDNET have shareware available for downloading.
My question here is:
How should I go about distributing my program as shareware?
THANKS IN ADVANCE!
Guy Hurt
Guygateway@Yahoo.Com
I am in the process of making some final touches to the biggest VB Project I have ever assembled. It's a Number Game that grew past my expectations, and I'm ready to share it with the world, but, I'm not exactly sure how to proceed from this point. I have 2 separate issues that I'd like to ask you about. Any & all help would be very much appreciated. I'm working in VB6, in a Windows 95 environment.
Issue #1 --- DEPLOYMENT
=======================
When I tried to deploy a small VB program a while back, I found that it would not run on a computer without VB6 installed. I kept getting a message about a missing file named "MXDLL6.0" or something. Now, I have a much bigger program I want to deploy nad am worried that it won't work.
The project I'm trying to employ has 18 forms, and 2 code modules. In addtion, there are 5 folders (which are to be accessed from the desktop), each containing 8 paint image files for various slide show documentation. One of the forms is a slide show program, and it reads and displays the paint image files.
My questions are as follows:
(1) How do I deploy this puppy? This project has a lot of forms, code modules, and 40 outside files.
(2) I'd like to generate my executable on a floppy. If 1 floppy is too small, will the deployment process automatically prompt me to supply the additional disks, as they are required?
(3) If multiple disks are generated for the executable, will a user be able to install/load the executable without any problems?
(4) If all goes well, a user should be able to run my program, Without having VB6 installed on their PC, right?
Issue #2 --- SHAREWARE DISTRIBUTION
===================================
Once I have successfully deployed this puppy, I'd be interested in distributing it as shareware. I've been told that sites like ZDNET have shareware available for downloading.
My question here is:
How should I go about distributing my program as shareware?
THANKS IN ADVANCE!
Guy Hurt
Guygateway@Yahoo.Com