Distributing Crystal Report Engine & ActiveX Control

[Girl]

Hi
I've written a small application (in VB 5 Enterprise Edition) that uses crystal report for report generation. I just compile my project into EXE (Native Code), WITHOUT using application setup wizard. All the necessary DLLs and OCXs are put together with the Executable file in a folder. I can run my executable file on other PCs that don't have pre-installed VB5, the only problem is I CAN'T run the part that uses Crystal Report ActiveX. A message like "Component Crystl32.ocx Not Correctly Registered: File Is Missing Or Invalid" appears, and then the program suddenly quits.

In fact, I also packed the Crystl32.ocx and Crpe32.dll (Engine) in the same folder , and then I made another copy of these files into the windows\system\ directory, the message still appears. As I read thru the documentation, there's no need to include Crystl32.ocx but Crpe32.dll in a compiled and distributable program. I don't know why there's a message prompting me that Crystl32.ocx is not registered correctly. In this case, should I install a FULL CRYSTAL REPORT PROGRAM on any PC that runs my program ? Or else, how can I REGISTER the Crystl32.OCX on other PC ? Oh, What a headache.

Thanks for your attention and reply in advance.

[Girl]

Hi
I still can't register the ocx and dll thru the regsvr32, an error message
box like
'LoadLibrary ("C:\windows\system\crystl32.ocx") Failed. GetLastError
Returns. 0X00000485'

'LoadLibrary ("C:\windows\system\crpe32.dll") Failed. GetLastError
Returns. 0X00000485'

Please, what can I do on this ? I remember the documentation of VB5 enterprise edition only specifies the CRPE32.dll (engine) is a must to be included when distributing the executable file if it used crystal report activeX control for report generation. My program has to be run on more than 20 PCs internally within my company in a hurry, what can I do now ? Have to install full crystal report software on more than 20 PCs before running my program ? Wah, what a headache trouble...~@_@~

Any other solutions ? Thanks for your guidance in advance.

[Girl]

Knight
Sorry, when posting the first message, the process got stucked there, then I click for another time as I thought the first posting met the failure.

[RogerH]

Hi,

the 'problem' in your case is COM. The Crystal Reports OCX is a COM component that has to be registered in the Registry.

Try REGSVR32 to register the Crystl32.OCX manually.

[Serge]

Files needed for Crystal Reports:

Control

Crystl32.ocx


Crystal Reports Runtime Files
Crpaig32.dll
Crpe32.dll
Crxlat32.dll
Implode.dll
P2sodbc.dll

Crystal Reports Export Format Files
U2ddisk.dll
U2dmapi.dll
U2fcr.dll
U2fdif.dll
U2fhtml.dll
U2fodbc.dll
U2frec.dll
U2frtf.dll
U2fsepv.dll
U2ftext.dll
U2fwks.dll
U2fwordw.dll
U2fxls.dll

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Serge

Software Developer
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I just realized you had two message topics with the same info in each.. heh...



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John T. Mieske
Knight Vision Enterprises
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