On Thursday, September 28, 2000 5:11 AM, Laurie Griffiths
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> John Atchley said "...Finally, it really is necessary to deliver DLLs
with
> most windows
> applications"
>
> DLLs yes, but Windows System DLLs? (But this is getting off topic).
> Laurie
Depends on what you consider a "windows system DLL." It is very often
necessary to deliver the Microsoft DLLs for many "stock" controls because
these are delivered with development languages and with applications that
use them but *not* with the basic windows system. The common dialogs
control (ocx) is a good example. This will almost always be on users
machines because so many applications use it. However, you can't rely on
that because it is not part of the OEM windoze distribution. Therefore, if
your application is installed on a "clean" machine and you don't install
the ocx, your application will bomb out with errors and your users will
lose confidence in you quite rapidly.
It may be off topic but seeing as how we have several people on this list
delivering abc software on the windoze platform it's not really *that* far
off topic...;-)
John Atchley
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