One thing you might consider, is including an mbx on the CD, which determines the used CD drive number (there might even be more than one!) and uses this info to modify the data accordingly. To modify the data, you'll off course need to save a temporary copy of the relevant tables on the user's PC, but it can be done.
Alternatively, if it's "just" the workspace that's causing the problems, you can have the mbx make a temporary copy of the workspace file (template), replacing the CD drive letters in it to fit the PC setup. And have the user open a workspace on the CD that just launches this mbx. Best regards / Med venlig hilsen Lars V. Nielsen -------------------------------------------------------- Hvenegaard & Meklenborg Rugaardsvej 55, DK-5000 Odense C Denmark http://www.hvm.dk ----- Original Message ----- From: "su chen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MAPINFO-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 5:32 PM Subject: MI-L Problems on Creating a CD for Mapinfo projects > hello, all: > > First I would like to thank for Lawley, Russell S and > christian.cattaneo for their useful answers to my > previous questions on creatin a CD. However, "File ca > not found" problems still exists for the hotlinked > files. > > what I did is put workspace file the top most folder > "MapData", and put all related files in its subfolder, > and then change the absolute path to relate path use > notepad for workspace file, i.e. ".\TAB\*.Tab". For > TAB files, it seems relative path works pretty well. > However, for those hotlinked files, Mapinfo can not > recognized the relative path at all, the way I did > create a column wich contains the relative path to > those hotlink files, for examples > ".\Hotlinks\PDFs\filename.pdf", it can not work at > all. The only way I can make it work is give the full > path, like "C:\Mapdata\Hotlinks\PDFs\filename.pdf", > however, this will require user to extract or copy all > the files in CD into his C drive which is not > preferred. > I also tried other ways to make it possible to read > all the files on a CD, since it's impossible to > predict the label No, so I have to create lots of CDs > with different Drive No. for those hotlinked files, > like: > > D:\Mapdata\Hotlinks\PDFs\filename.pdf > E:\Mapdata\Hotlinks\PDFs\filename.pdf > F:\Mapdata\Hotlinks\PDFs\filename.pdf > > It works but make me feel stupid. > > Anybody else have gone through the same problem and > would like to suggest me the right way to make it > happen by using relative path for those hotlinked > files? > > many Thanks > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway > http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message number: 11273 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 11287
