DEPLOYMENT FOR USE ON MAC

[Ruth]

I'm getting ready to deploy one of my apps for the first time. My client has
a MAC and has MSOffice. I'm deploying the app (created on Access 2007) as a
standalone, not requiring Access 2007, but are there special adjustments that
have to be made to the install file or any file for use on a MAC?

/RA

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

There's no such thing as a standalone Access application that doesn't
require Access to be installed. Not only that, but there's no version of
Access for Macs.

Did you perhaps package your application with the free Access 2007 runtime,
and you're thinking that it's now standalone? All you've done is include a
special version of msaccess.exe with your application: you haven't changed
your application in any way, shape or form. The special version of
msaccess.exe is actually the same version that you used to develop the
application in the first place, but its ability to make design changes to
the application has been removed by literally hundreds of registry entries.
The point is, though, that you still have to install msaccess.exe, and you
can only do that in Windows.

To run your application on a Mac, you'd have to ensure that Windows
emulation software is running on the Mac.

 

[Ruth]

Douglas,

Why the attitude?....I don't think what you wrote is entirely accurate but
thanks for the reply. I will look into what you've stated and have asked my
client about the "Windows Emulation Software"?

 

[Rick Brandt]

Douglas,

Why the attitude?....I don't think what you wrote is entirely accurate
but thanks for the reply. I will look into what you've stated and have
asked my client about the "Windows Emulation Software"?

I see no attitude in Douglas' answer and it is 100% accurate. Access has
never run on a Mac other than with Windows emulation software (and even
then it might not in all cases).

 

[tina]

wow, nothing like snapping at the hand that's offering food. there are times
when i bless the genius who created the Block Sender option in OE, and this
is one of those times.