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Installing Dcom95 and extra registry entries.

The information in this section is intended for system administrators using TCP/IP, Dcom95, and DOS, or both. The files included are a quick fix to a problem that was found and corrected. Your own use of the information is not the subject of the instructions as it is a basic guide only. This document presumes that you have installed Dcom95 and TCP/IP.

This section describes how a user needs to add the Pop-up events to the files that KitCAD creates in the windows GDI environment. Running the included registry files allows for the setting of these options. This in turn will allow you to double click and edit using KitCAD. Right clicking will show a list of events that a user can select from.

Dcom95 and TCP/IP should be installed for real server setups in a dedicated environment. KitCAD will still need to be installed on a client resource and an application server of some type. Your administrator can test and create the links to the server for each client. If the client knows the path location of server files then a typical connection can be achieved remotely anyway.
Basic structures can be completed using DOS commands by joining the *.KPD files together. A script could be then used to count and change the amount of loops in the new text file data.

Data swapping can also be achieved in many other fashions depending on the user/s requirements. In this example, the KitCAD file Data is always passed to server/s and not back to clients unless the client asks for it. I.e.: Graphical images.

The server must have one copy of the KitCAD software for each client. This allows for another type of application to collect information from client's that are pre-scripted to do so on the server. The result being something like; one master, with slaves, over many intersections. Registry files are included to allow users to take advantage of Dcom95. There are several ways for this to be done but you might like option of setting the system events yourself for each user. This can also be run in a script format that enables others to change and update their system events as required.

The example that is shown here is a brief description of what one needs to do for Dcom95 and system events which is done by adding entries for KitCAD 1.18 (for the years before 2000):

1. Using Explorer or another file browser, navigate until you can select the files in the 'file' subdirectory of KitCAD I.e.: c:\Program Files\Kitchen\KitCAD\Files
2. Extract files from or click on the file/folder Dcom.zip
3. Edit the files marked with a *.reg extension by right clicking and selecting edit.
4. Merge the files with the *.reg extension into your system by double clicking on each file. A dialog box will be displayed when information is registered into your system.

KitCAD2F.zip - KitCAD2 - 2004 Current users have the above settings installed by the setup program. The above setup is not advised and may cause errors if not configured correctly.
The file of DCom.zip above is a Administrators example only.

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Updated on the 27th of June, 2004.