Michael Aivaliotis wrote: > No software installation required? I agree that the DLL you mentioned > is an alternative to consider but it still must be installed and > registered on the system, no? I like the cost of it $105 instead of > $565 for VISA however. Do the MarshallSoft DLL's have licencing > restrictions for distribution?
I'd have thought it would be acceptable to install extra products if the end user didn't have to do any additional operations. I recall the installer supplied with App Builder is pretty simplistic and just lets you execute a single arbitrary command during installation, but even this can be used to fire off additional installers. InstallShield Developer certainly gives several different ways of encapsulating additional installations within your own, and usually you don't even have to let the end user see the dialogs of the additional installations. InstallShield handles component registration in a pretty idiot proof manner- I've never been able to break it and I've read as little of the instruction manual as possible. If by registration you mean the licensing of the DLL, MarshallSoft say there is no charge for run-time use of their DLL, by which I understand no deployment licensing. See http://www.marshallsoft.com/products.htm -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/
