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Installing Geo Media Objects
Installing Geo Media Objects
Objects
Verify that your system meets or exceeds the requirements for GeoMedia Objects 6.1 listed in
the GeoMedia Objects Readme. GeoMedia Objects runs on Windows XP and Windows
Vista.
See the Licensing GeoMedia Products section for more information.
Verify that you have administrator privileges on the system where you want to install
GeoMedia Objects.
Verify that you have Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 or higher installed on your
system. See Microsoft documentation for more information on installing and using .NET.
If you expect to use GeoMedia Objects with MGE, MGDM, MGSM, or ODBC Tabular
projects, or with CAD data that has database attribute linkages, install the Open Database
Connectivity (ODBC) drivers that are appropriate for the database-management systems you
use with your data. You can get the appropriate ODBC drivers from your database system
vendor.
In order to use the Oracle Object Model data server, you must load the Oracle client software
before installing GeoMedia Objects.
You must remove previous versions of GeoMedia Objects before installing the current version.
You will not be able to install this version over a previous version. Use Start > Control Panel
> Add or Remove Programs to remove any previous versions of the product.
Note: To check the version of GeoMedia Objects currently installed, go to Control Panel and
click Add or Remove Programs. Select GeoMedia Objects from the list; then click the link
that says Click here for support information.
Configuring Unicode
All controls in the product that perform the display and entry of either graphic text or attribute text
now support multi-language text (Unicode).
The following is a sample procedure for configuring Unicode:
1. Use Registry Editor (regedit) from the command line to open the registry.
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Intergraph.
3. Locate the two String Values GeoMediaUnicodeTextFontName and
GeoMediaUnicodeTextFontSize.
If they do not exist, create them by right clicking on Intergraph and then selecting New >
String Value from the right mouse menu.
4. Select GeoMediaUnicodeTextFontName, and from the right mouse menu select Modify.
5. On the Edit String dialog box, type any valid Unicode font, for example Arial Unicode MS, in
the Value data field, and then click OK.
6. Select GeoMediaUnicodeTextFontSize, and from the right mouse menu select Modify.
7. On the Edit String dialog box, type the number of the appropriate font size in the Value data
field, and then click OK.
Description
These documents can be found in the .\Resources folder on the product CD. You can view the
Installing GeoMedia Objects by double clicking on .\Resources\InstallingGeoMediaObjects.pdf
and the GeoMedia Objects Object Reference by double clicking on .\Resources\GM_auto61.chm.
Note: You may not be able to view the GeoMedia Objects Object Reference or the GeoMedia
Objects Object Model Quick Reference over a network connection. However, you can view it by
double clicking on .\Resources\GM_auto60.chm. or .\Resources\GMO_AutoModel.chm on the
product CD.
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