moving Army Builder between computers?

[JL_Stinger at yahoo.com]

Third f'n time I've posted this; Yahoo must be eating my posts or something. GRRR...

Is it possible to move an installed copy of AB (and AB Construction Kit) to another computer,
without reinstalling it? I'd like to because my only computer access right now is a computer lab
and I'd like to stick the program on a zipdisk and move it to the harddrive (and later back to the
zipdisk) whenever I want to use it rather than going through the whole install process then
copying my rosters, data, and units folders every time.

I tried just copying c:\armybuilder (where the program is installed to) but when i try to run it
later on a different computer I get a "missing component" error. I guess some files are getting
installed to other parts of the c: drive. Can anyone tell me what these files are and what
directories they're going in?

Or is what i'm trying to do not possible for some reason?

Thanks to anyone who can help (and lets hope this msg doesn't vanish into internet oblivion)


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[onicrusher at plansofmice]

...Is it possible to move an installed copy of AB (and AB Construction Kit)
to another computer, without reinstalling it?...

Doesn't Army Builder use a code based on the make up of the machine it's
installed in? In which case the details on moving it from machine A to
machine B should be available on the website.

---Steven


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[demandred at skrill.org]

At 15:40 21/02/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>Third f'n time I've posted this; Yahoo must be eating my posts or
>something. GRRR...
>
>Is it possible to move an installed copy of AB (and AB Construction Kit)
>to another computer,
>without reinstalling it? I'd like to because my only computer access
>right now is a computer lab
>and I'd like to stick the program on a zipdisk and move it to the
>harddrive (and later back to the
>zipdisk) whenever I want to use it rather than going through the whole
>install process then
>copying my rosters, data, and units folders every time.
>
>I tried just copying c:\armybuilder (where the program is installed to)
>but when i try to run it
>later on a different computer I get a "missing component" error. I guess
>some files are getting
>installed to other parts of the c: drive. Can anyone tell me what these
>files are and what
>directories they're going in?

It'll put some stuff in the Windows directory, I'd imagine. I'm not sure
how you'd find this out, unless you took a complete directory listing of
c:\windows, then installed it, took another and diff'd them. Even then, I'm
not sure if just swapping in the relevant files would work.


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[dmjacobs at zipworld.com.]

At 08:29 PM 24/02/02 +0000, Colen 'Skrillboy' McAlister wrote:

>At 15:40 21/02/2002 -0800, you wrote:
> >I tried just copying c:\armybuilder (where the program is installed to)
> >but when i try to run it
> >later on a different computer I get a "missing component" error. I guess
> >some files are getting
> >installed to other parts of the c: drive. Can anyone tell me what these
> >files are and what
> >directories they're going in?
>
>It'll put some stuff in the Windows directory, I'd imagine. I'm not sure
>how you'd find this out, unless you took a complete directory listing of
>c:\windows, then installed it, took another and diff'd them. Even then, I'm
>not sure if just swapping in the relevant files would work.

There's a file called "install.log" in the directory that you installed AB
into; it lists the locations of each file, and the registry keys that it
adds. The installer copies vcl50.bpl in your WINDOWS/SYSTEM/ directory,
but AFAIK, that's the only non-local file that AB requires. However, if
you copy it into the same directory as the AB executable (on a CD, say),
I'm guessing that it'll still work.

As for the registry keys, try creating an ASCII file with a .reg
extension. If you know what you're doing, it shouldn't be too hard to copy
the keys and values over from install.log. If you don't, then don't even
think about it; the system registry can be a delicate thing. Anyway, once
you've written the .reg file, you just have to double-click on it to update
the registry on whichever computer you're on.

David M Jacobs
dmjacobs@zipworld.com.au
http://www.zipworld.com.au/~dmjacobs/
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