Distributing iMacros with your Application

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The iMacros Scripting Edition contains a free iMacros Player license. This license allows you to distribute the iMacros Player royalty free with your application. The iMacros Player contains all features of the Scripting Edition, except the ability to record new macros.

Please contact the iOpus Support Team at http://www.iopus.com/service/support/ to request your personal Player licence key.

There are two different approaches to distribute iMacros with your application.

Distributing the iOpus setup
You can distribute the normal setup executable from http://www.iopus.com/download/. When installing your application on the clients computer, you can easily call the iMacros setup and install the iMacros Trial version. You can then either write the Player key in the iim.ini from your setup or let your client enter it manually. Your client will then be able to play any macro you created. The Scripting Interface also works. We recommend that you redistribute the original setup file. The setup supports some command line switches that make life easier.

Distribute iMacros with your setup
iMacros is a compact application that consists only of the following files, which you need to copy to your client's computer

imacros.exe	Mandatory, the iMacros engine
imatl.dll	Mandatory
imsys.dll	Mandatory
iframe.exe	Mandatory
iimwnk.dll	Mandatory
iimConnector.dll	Mandatory
imgr.exe	Mandatory, register it with imgr.exe /regserver after installation
imi.ini	Mandatory, settings file
iimInterface.dll	Optional, the Scripting Interface (COM object)
iimRth.dll	Optional, belongs to Scripting Interface
imimage.dll	Optional, the Image Recognition library
imacros.dll	Optional, the Internet Explorer Plug-in
ab1.ico	Optional, Icon for Internet Explorer Browser Bar
ab2.ico	Optional, Icon for Internet Explorer Browser Bar

Depending on your version of Windows, you may also have to install and register the following redistributable Microsoft System Files into the Windows System directory. You will find them on any PC that has the regular iMacros installation:

mscomctl.ocx, tabctl32.ocx, msstdfmt.dll

The settings file iim.ini can be included in the setup for predefined settings, for example the iMacros Player License key. If you use this file, you need to store the location of the iim.ini file in the registry:

Root: HKLM; Subkey: "Software\IIM"; ValueType: string; ValueName: "AppDataFolder"; ValueData: "c:\myini\"
Root: HKLM; Subkey: "Software\IIM"; ValueType: dword; ValueName: "Use AppDataFolder"; ValueData: "1"

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