June 13, 2006

NONROAD2005 Graphic User Interface (GUI) Installation Notes


For some unknown reason some users run into a problem during the GUI
installation process, in which the following error message appears on the
screen: 

  "Setup cannot continue because some system files are out of date on your
   system.  Click OK if you would like setup to update these files for you
   now.  You will need to restart Windows before you can run setup again. 
   Click cancel to exit setup without updating system files."

Do not bother clicking OK.  That does nothing to help the situation.
What we have found is that for computers that give this message the
system files (DLLs, etc.) in the installation package are not needed at
all, presumably because the necessary files are already on the computer. 
Regardless of why it works, this is what we have found to work: 

Copy the following three files into your c:\nonroad folder (or wherever
you have your nonroad.exe file)...

  nr-gui.exe
  nr-gui.ini
  nonroad.pif  (note that Windows doesn't show the extension on this file,
                it just lists it as "NONROAD" with a file type of 
                "Shortcut to MS-DOS Program")

These three files are contained in the nr05-gui.zip file that you 
downloaded from the web.  You can find them there by first unZipping 
nr05-gui.zip, and then unZipping just those three files from nr-gui.CAB 
(which is another kind of zip file handled by WinZip). 

As described in the normal installation instructions for NONROAD, you 
should then check the nr-gui.ini file in a text editor to make sure that 
it points to the version of MS-Access that you have on your computer.  
I.e., find your MSACCESS.EXE and make sure the path shown in nr-gui.ini 
matches the path on your computer. 

Lastly, you will want to create a shortcut to the GUI on your desktop 
and/or in your Start menu.  One way to do this is: 

1.  Right click in a blank area of your desktop, and select New => Shortcut. 

2.  Click the Browse button and select the nr-gui.exe file, which should
be in c:\nonroad.  Click OK. 

3.  Click Next, and change the shortcut name from nr-gui.exe to NONROAD GUI
(or whatever you want to call it).  And Click Finish.  That gives you a 
desktop icon.  

4.  Then to have it also show up in the Start Menu, you can just copy that
desktop icon into: 
   c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\

