After reading that document, now i know why my app. didnt like being in the program files folder....I mean I alwasys know it was somthign to do with security, but didnt relalise the extent of the limitations of a standard user !
Jeremy On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Jeremy Coulter <[email protected]> wrote: > I have never really moved from INI files to be honest so our app. running > on Vista was pretty straight forward EXCEPT that it didnt like running under > the "c:\program files\" folder for some reason. I didnt ever try to find out > I must admit, but other than that the conversion was fine. > > On that not, anyone tried Windows 7 yet? I am liking it so far. > > Jeremy > > > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Robert martin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I cant find the resource I last used but there are heaps of web pages >> about this. See link below for the codegear one hat has some information >> that may be of use. >> >> >> http://pascalfonteneau.developpez.com/articles/delphi/vista/uac/VistaUACandDelphi.pdf >> >> >> Some time (before Vista) we made the jump out of the registry and back to >> ini files and have never regretted it ! Certainly made Vista enabling our >> app pretty easy :) >> >> Cheers >> Rob >> >> >> >> >> Conor Boyd wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'm about to pull a chunk of code out of my Delphi app and bundle it into >> another binary so that I can elevate that chunk of functionality on Vista, >> while leaving the main app running unelevated. >> >> I've seen a number of references to the blog posting linked below which I >> can't get access to (when I visit it, it says I haven't been invited to read >> that blog). I believe this article to be describing how to package this >> code up into a COM DLL and elevate my administrative functionality that way. >> >> >> http://developersoven.blogspot.com/2007/02/leveraging-vistas-uac-with-delphi-part.html >> >> Can anybody here provide more information on this process? I know how to >> write COM DLLs no problem, but I'm unsure about whether there are other >> issues involved here? >> >> Or does anybody have an alternative suggestion for functionality requiring >> elevation on Vista? The other alternative I've got is just to bundle my >> code into a simple executable with an elevated manifest resource compiled >> into it, and simply ShellExec that. >> >> (The functionality in question is simply writing value(s) to "our" key in >> HKLM in the registry). >> >> Thanks, >> >> Conor >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list >> Post: [email protected] >> Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi >> Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: >> unsubscribe >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list >> Post: [email protected] >> Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi >> Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: >> unsubscribe >> > >
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