Re: FN-FORUM Help with forms on a CD-ROM

date posted 12th April 2001 09:35

if youre storing the access mdb to search on the cd-rom as well you'll need
to install it in a directory on a hard drive first otherwise you'll get an
error when access tries to create the ldb file when its being accessed

i was looking at something similar a while back and for a purely searchable
database (SELECT only) on cd youre better off making a custom xml database
for an exe to read. as for the web server hassles could you not possibly
have just the exe on the cd with an instance of IE in a vbform in the exe to
view the web pages? you could customise the vbform to have a browser display
and have html form details submitted via the vbform which would access the
db? seems a lot easier and more powerful to me.

dave ecky

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Stowell" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 8:24 AM
Subject: RE: FN-FORUM Help with forms on a CD-ROM


> Hi Garrett
>
> A client of ours wanted (they don't anymore!) to distribute a CD-ROM with
> HTML pages which the user could view in their browser. They also wanted
to
> add a search facility from within the HTML form that called a CGI (or VB
> exe) to search an Access database.
>
> They don't require this anymore but it would be interesting to see the
best
> way of achieving this functionality.
>
> Thanks
>
> Andy
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> > [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Garrett Coakley
> > Sent: 11 April 2001 18:38
> > To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> > Subject: Re: FN-FORUM Help with forms on a CD-ROM
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 14:58:31 +0100 "Andy Stowell"
> > [EMAIL REMOVED] said:
> >
> >
> > > A client of ours wants to have HTML pages read from a CD-ROM
> > and submit a
> > > form to call a VB executable on the CD-ROM. This executable would
then
> > > return a page of HTML to the browser.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know if this is possible without a call to a web
> > server, and if
> > > so how to go about doing it?
> >
> > Submitting a form with a web server won't work. You need
> > something between
> > your HTML page and the logic (in your case the VB exe) to pass the
> > information.
> >
> > What exactly is the functionality they're trying to achieve here?
> > I can't see
> > any reason for needing a web server to pass info back and forth,
> > especially
> > for something being distributed on CD-ROM.
> >
> > If you can give me a few more details I might be able to help (used to
do
> > quite a lot of CD-ROMs).
> >
> > G.
> >
> >
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