Thanks for all the very useful hints and tips on this forum. The area I'd welcome some help is creating start menu icons (see item 3) but first let me report what I hope are some useful points.
1. I successfully installed Delphi 5 on Vista Home Premium - so it does work. Bob Swart's article (http://www.drbob42.net/examines/examin84.htm ) was most helpful in particular. The key point is to change directory permissions whenever writes fail. This applies not just for the cases in Bob's article, but some components write to their own directories which must have their permissions set appropriately. I did have trouble installing the Delphi 5 update (fix) pack, which just hung, reporting that Delphi was still running. After a reboot and a wait, it suddenly decided to install. 2. I've more or less managed to get several applications working, and at least one happy user! I was expecting more problems, especially since I use HKLM to store (and modify) configuration settings, and I'd been warned that you could not write to HKLM. But I have no problem changing configuration (ie HKLM) settings from a standard user as well as an administrator, so all users can see the changes. I checked the permissions for my HKLM key. This has been set so everyone has full control - not by me, but by the installation process. Curiously this also applies to my Borland HKLM key, so this may be the default for keys created during the install process. I use Innosetup. This is an absolutely excellent program - thanks to Jordan Russell - see http://www.jrsoftware.org/ ). This supports Vista, and in my case my installation ran fine without modification, despite creating all sorts of folders, files, keys and icons as well as running my own setup program that does further registry modification. I've also got MAPI working - so good progress! 3. I do have a few problems still to solve: - I used to be able to create additional icons in the Start Menu from the application (in the application's folder therein). That doesn't work now. And it is a real pain to do it manually. I couldn't even create a new icon in the program files folder manually - even as an administrator. There is no "new" context menu item anymore. I had to copy an existing one (authorising the process several times) although there may be something I missed. I can create desktop icons with a program, including when run by a Standard User, so that has to suffice for now. Any ideas will be welcome. I've still got some things to try here. - I'm going to have to follow a number of the recommendations contained in previous posts (eg on where to store control files etc.) But I'm nearly there. Finally - Vista is a real pain for a small (and in my case very much part-time) developer. UAC asks huge numbers of questions. Yes, the extra security is essential, but I can't help thinking it's not been done very intelligently. I find the user interface designed for style, not useability, with even more space used for captions and borders, leaving less for the real work. It doesn't support all my hardware yet (probably never will). I can't see any reason users who take care about their security should upgrade - yet! Thanks again to all, Brendan Blake. _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
