Kawa Multi-user Setup

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Please install Kawa as a single user setup first and distribute the files between the client and server as shown below. The shortcut to run Kawa should run the Kawa.exe from the server directory and it is important to set the current directory as server directory under shortcut properties.

Following files need to be in a shared directory on a server.

Kawa.exe - Main program file.

clrtxt.dll - Kawa editor DLL

classes.zip - Java classes needed by Kawa

kawa.ipg - JDK help indices

kawahelp.ipg - Kawa help indices

keyboard.txt - Information file

license.txt - Information file

readme.txt - Information file

order.txt - Information file

tips.txt - Information file

picture.jpg - Used in wahtsnew.htm

_title.gif - Used in wahtsnew.htm

whatsnew.htm - What’s new for this release

newhelp sub-directory - These files are the new set of Kawa help files and should be copied under newhelp sub-directory on the server directory.

 

Following are the files in the user directory. It is important to set this path under Options/Directory/program paths. User can customize these files and these are read/write files. Any of these files copied into the user directory will be used from that directory. Any files not copied will be used from the server directory.

kawa.pkg - Package tab data file

user.ipg - User help index file

user.cmd - User custom commands file

kawa.hpg - Help tab file

kawa.proj - Kawa project file

 

Following files should go to Windows/System directory. It is important to verify the version information of each DLL before copying it to System directory -

mfc42.dll

msvcrt.dll

msvcrt40.dll

oleaut32.dll

olepro32.dll

stdole2.tlb

 

Following file should be copied in user windows directory. This file stores all the user settings.

kawa.ini

As another option, a command line parameter can now be passed to Kawa to specify the location of a local ini file for Kawa. Create a shortcut and set the Target path to include the following:

/i <Kawa.ini file location> or -i <Kawa.ini file location> such as the following: