RE: [www-vrml] vrml/x3d in frames

["Eric Maranne" <emi@nerim.net>]

> that also needs admin priviledges for the user I think, since 
> it installs it in the registry (at HKEY\LOCAL_MACHINE\Classes 
> or something)
Actually HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT 

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> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : George Birbilis [mailto:birbilis@kagi.com] 
> Envoyé : dimanche 3 octobre 2004 11:47
> À : Eric Maranne
> Cc : www-vrml@web3d.org
> Objet : Re: [www-vrml] vrml/x3d in frames
> 
> >> This means no run from CD without installing some stuff to 
> the users 
> >>machine first (and the user needs to have admin priviledges 
> I think).
> 
> >You may register ActiveX in your code ... Just register 
> before loading
> them,
> >an API call is enough. That's the way plugins work.
> 
> that also needs admin priviledges for the user I think, since 
> it installs it in the registry (at HKEY\LOCAL_MACHINE\Classes 
> or something)
> 
> there might be some trick for a container to load the ActiveX 
> DLL (.OCX) and call it directly instead of asking the system 
> to instantiate it from info located in the registry. However 
> that would mean the container contains knowledge about that 
> control or can read some description file about that control 
> in order to load it (instead of asking the system to look for 
> such info in the registry). I'm very interested in any way to 
> circumvent this and temporarily register some ActiveX control 
> for a user or something like that to fool an application and 
> have it use it from CD directly without info about that 
> control being installed in the system registry. E.g. clients 
> of my QTVRControlX (ActiveX control for QuickTime and 
> QuickTimeVR) were asking if I could provide such a technology 
> for their application to use Acrobat Reader's ActiveX control 
> without having to install it first
> 
> >> KATIA
> >It's CATIA (it's French, so I have to correct it :)
> 
> yes indeed, I think it's CATIA
> 
> cheers,
> george
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> George Birbilis <birbilis@kagi.com> [Microsoft MVP J# for 
> 2004] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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