Normal V Standalone

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   What's the pros and cons for these two types?

The users will be treating AccuTerm as an emulator, and not writing anyGUI items themselves, though they may be running some.

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acmedia Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: April 26 2005 Status: Offline Points: 119	Post Options Post Reply Quote acmedia Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Normal V Standalone Posted: February 14 2011 at 9:41am
	What's the pros and cons for these two types? The users will be treating AccuTerm as an emulator, and not writing anyGUI items themselves, though they may be running some.

PSchellenbach Members Profile Find Members Posts Admin Group Moderator Joined: December 15 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2150	Post Options Post Reply Quote PSchellenbach Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: February 14 2011 at 10:26am
	Hi Acmedia- The difference is basically registry & shared files. In the "normal" install, shared files are installed in the system32 (32 bit) or syswow64 (64 bit) directories, and ActiveX components are registered in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. In the "standalong" install, shared files are installed in a sub-directory (_AX) of the AccuTerm program directory, and components are registered on the fly in HKEY_CURRENT_USER. A standalone installation may be possible without admin privileges. The downside of the standalone install is that the OLE classes used to automate AccuTerm by an external program (like Excel, VB, etc) are not registered unless AccuTerm is running. This would cause a function like CreateObject("atwin32.accuterm") to fail because without AccuTerm running, there is nothing in the registry for atwin32.accuterm. "standalone" is essentially the same as "portable" except that with "portable", AccuTerm's settings and files are written to the portable device instead of the user's registry or profile. Thanks, Pete