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I have written an App in Delphi which connects to an Informix database.
I am using Install Shield to install the Delphi App, however I would
also like to install the Informix Client (I-Connect 32) and set the
environment and server paramarters all within the install of the app.

First is this possible with Installl Shield (I don't think so) and
if not has anyone else been in this situation, because I would
appreciate some advice.

Also, is it possible to set my own default values for I-Connect
to use when it is installed.

My news server is not reliable so I would appreciate email.

Thank-you in advance
Adam Sorati

Quote:>First is this possible with Installl Shield (I don't think so) and
>if not has anyone else been in this situation, because I would
>appreciate some advice.

Quote:>Also, is it possible to set my own default values for I-Connect
>to use when it is installed.

Happy coding

Stefan Paetow
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Quote:>>Also, is it possible to set my own default values for I-Connect
>>to use when it is installed.

>Not as far as I know, especially because Iconnect has a seperate
>installation routine. You may of course always use InstallShield to set
>those values if IConnect uses either the registry or an INI file to store
>the settings.

Look in HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Informix
    and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/INFORMIX

We wrote a program that sucks the values out of the registry and restores
them later on another machine.

INFORMIX: You should supply such a program too!
NILS    : Don't even *mention* OpenLink :-)

We also decided not to "roll our own" I-Connect installation into the
main installation, because reverse engineering the Informix install is
a pain (that we don't want to continually have to do) and we thought
we *should* use the "proper" installation technique supplied by Informix.

Cheers,
Kerry S
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