Closed micahtmaclean closed 1 year ago
Thanks for the PR. I'm not familiar with OCX, so could you provide some additional info? (either as comments on the PR or in the document). Sorry for so many questions - just wondering the several use-cases.
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.OCX and DLL are both file extensions that Microsoft uses for Dynamically Linked Libraries. These are simply libraries that can be used for applications. Previous versions of Windows would have MSHFLXGRD.ocx registered already, but it is no longer installed automatically by Microsoft. That being said Windows 10+ can still use any ocx file that previous generations would have been able to if the user downloads the file and registers it.
In order, response to the comments you had.
It sounds like this is a case of a Windows-dependency that Speech Analyzer relies on but that newer versions of Windows no longer have it installed. Thus, I think the installer should register the OCX since users expect the program to just work.
@micahtmaclean thank you for all of the explanation. I'd like to propose the following changes to this PR:
I've done some commits that may be more in line with what you want. I'll PR that and we can continue discussion.
I wrote a section in the dev guide to mention how to register the OCX.