VB 3.0 Crystal Reports Files to Distribute /w Your .EXE Program

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You can run the Crystal Reports design environment in any of the following ways:

• From the Window menu in Visual Basic, choose Report Designer.
• In the Visual Basic 3.0 program group in Windows Program Manager, double-click the "Crystal Reports for Visual Basic" icon.
• In File Manager in Windows, double-click the CRW.EXE file located in the Report directory in your Visual Basic directory.
• You can use the Shell function to invoke the Crystal Reports design environment from an executable program written in Visual Basic. For example:

        x = Shell("CRW.EXE")
  

Microsoft does not allow you to distribute the Crystal Reports design environment (CRW.EXE) with your application. To access Crystal Reports from executable program written in Visual Basic, add a Crystal Custom Control to your program. You can make executable .EXE program files from programs that contain a Crystal Custom Control. If you want to distribute, sell, or test that .EXE file on another computer that does not have Visual Basic version 3.0 for Windows installed, you need to distribute the following files with that .EXE file:

   CRYSTAL.VBX       Crystal Custom Control file
   CRPE.DLL          Interface to the print engine.
   COMMDLG.DLL       Printer and file selection dialog box routines.
   CRXLATE.DLL       Only needed if your program uses ToWords() function.

 * PDIRJET.DLL       Crystal engine DLL.
 * PDBJET.DLL        Crystal engine DLL.
 * MSAJT110.DLL      Microsoft Access engine DLL.
 * MSAES110.DLL      Microsoft Access engine DLL.
** MSABC110.DLL      Microsoft Access engine DLL.
** CTL3D.DLL         Microsoft Access engine DLL.
   VB.INI            Visual Basic initialization file.

NOTES:

 * Files marked with one or two asterisks should be added to the list on
   page 582 in the "Visual Basic Version 3.0: Programmer's Guide."

** Files marked with two asterisks need to be added to the list in
   Appendix A of the "Crystal Reports for Visual Basic User's Manual."

Visual Basic's run-time dynamic link library must also be distributed with any executable Visual Basic program:

If you are making reports with ODBC, ODBC SQL Server, ODBC Oracle, Paradox, dBASE, or Btrieve, you will need to distribute additional database-specific files. See the REFERENCES section below.