Microsoft Access 97 Runtime

[Helly]

I know this might sound like a silly question but can someone explain
to me what Runtime is or how it's used?

thanks
Helly

[salad]

Helly wrote:

I know this might sound like a silly question but can someone explain
to me what Runtime is or how it's used?

thanks
Helly

MS will sell Office (standard) without Access. Then someone decides it
would be nice to have an Access database but doesn't want to shell out
the money for a copy of Access on all of the machines. Enter the
"runtime". There is an Access developers package. A developer can
create the database; tables, queries, forms, reports, and code and
create a "runtime" version of the MDB. The folks get the database, and
can run it, without needing their own copy of Access. There are some
things that are removed in the runtime that exist in the regular Access
package, but most can live with the limitations.

[Helly]

Thanks very much

[Lyle Fairfield]

We buy a special level of Ms-Access or Ms-Office. (Its name changes
from version to version.)
We build our masterpiece Access application. We use the special version
to create a runtime version of Access that will run our application,
but is not enabled for any other capability of Access. The whole thing
(quite a few files) is packaged as an installation.
We send the installation to our friends or clients who do not have
Ms-Access. After installation they can use our masterpiece.

Then the clock strikes midnight and each of their monitors turns into a
pumpkin.

[Helly]

Now having another issue where I am opening Northwind (demo that come
with access) on a machine with just the runtime installed and a blank
window appears without the db..

what am i doing wrong

Helly

[Lyle Fairfield]

I haven't used the runtime for years and years (because of the pumpkin
problem). My recollection is that the runtime operates only the db for
which it was created. But this needs someone who is more familiar with
the runtime than I.

[Rick Brandt]

Helly wrote:

Now having another issue where I am opening Northwind (demo that come
with access) on a machine with just the runtime installed and a blank
window appears without the db..

what am i doing wrong

Helly

Does Northwind specify a form to automatically open at startup? The runtime
does not provide access to the db window so if something isn't set to open
at startup then a blank screen is what you would expect to get.

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[Helly]

Thanks guys

will try that

:-)

[Larry Linson]

"Lyle Fairfield" <ly***********@aim.com> wrote

Then the clock strikes midnight and each
of their monitors turns into a pumpkin.

Well, I'll be . . . I wondered who was sneaking in at night and leaving
pumpkins in exchange for monitors. Thanks for the insight, Lyle.

[Helly]

Rick you were bang on.

Thanks so much for your help

xxx
Helly