FIBPlus Dade driver

rbuser

Dear All,

Since my upgrade to RB 10.09 I have problems in the DATA section. I got the
hint from a fellow developer that my fibplus dade driver could not be
compatible with this new version. The daPlus.pas would need updating to cope
withthe new RB version.

Who knows where to find a RB 10.09 compatible Dade driver. Both Devrace and
Digital Metaphors have old versions on their download page?

Kind regards,

Jerri Schrijver

nardmoseley

What RB version were you using before? What Delphi version are you using?

Most likely you just need to recompile it.


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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors
www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

Hello Nard,

I came from RB 10.07 and am using CodeGear 2007, 3rd update. Since
upgrading I have this strange problem, tried recompiling but that does not
solve the problem. If I go to the DATA section and in the menu choose
File|Data Settings, the report designer screen freezes. I have the idea the
Data Setting form is actually shown but disappeared in the background. Only
by using the task manager i can close everything.

Kind Regards,

Jerri

nardmoseley

This is not a known issue. The DADE plug-in, when recompiled for RB 10.09,
should work the same as did prior versions.

Check your Designer | DataSettings to make sure they are correctly
configured.

Try a run-time test with RBuilder\Source in your Delphi library path, then
you can trace in the debugger.

There is also the possibility that you have a corrupt install or have
multiple versions of the DADE plug-in on your machine in different
directories.


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Article: Cleaning up a Corrupt Installation
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If you have been advised by Digital Metaphors technical support that you may
have a corrupt installation, or if you are having difficulty installing,
compiling or running applications after a ReportBuilder install, then it may
be necessary to manually remove all ReportBuilder files from your system.
Corrupt installations usually result when you are installing over a previous
version of ReportBuilder which was not installed into the default directory,
which was recompiled from the source, or when ReportBuilder files were
manually moved from the default install location. Cleaning up a corrupt
installation, consists of locating all ReportBuilder related files, and
deleting them from your system. The first step is to use the uninstall
program to remove as much of ReportBuilder as possible.


Run the uninstall program

1. Exit Delphi, and all other applications. You should have no applications
running except the uninstall, otherwise you may lose some of your work.

2. Select Start | Settings | Control Panel from your Windows desktop.

3. Double-click the Add/Remove programs icon.

4. Locate the version of ReportBuilder you wish uninstall and double-click
it.

5. The first page of the Uninstall Wizard allows you to choose between an
Automatic or Custom uninstall. Choose Custom and click the Next button.

6. Click the Select All button, then the Next button. Repeat these steps
until you reach the last page of the wizard.

7. Click the Finish button. All of the items you selected will be removed
from the system.

8. After all the ReportBuilder files are removed, you may be prompted to
reboot the system. If this is the case, reboot the system.


Delete the ReportBuilder root directory (and all subdirectories)

1. Using the Windows Explorer, locate the ReportBuilder root directory. The
default directory is:

C:\Program Files\Borland\DelphiX\RBuilder

2. Once you have located this directory, inspect it. If you have any custom
work in this directory which you would like to keep, move it to another
directory.

3. Delete the ReportBuilder root directory.


Delete all remaining ReportBuilder files

1. Using the Windows Explorer, search the entire hard drive for all
occurrences of:

dclRB*.bpl
dclRB*.dcp
rb*.bpl
rb*.dcp

2. Delete any occurrences which correspond to the version you are removing.
All packages are named with the convention NN, where the first number
is the ReportBuilder version and the second number is the Delphi version.
Thus, a typical package name for Delphi 5 would be rbRCL45.bpl. The same
package for Delphi 4 would be: rbRCL44.bpl. Check Installing ReportBuilder
for a list of the packages associated with each version.

3. Using the Windows Explorer, search your hard drive for all occurrences
of:

pp*.*
da*.*
ra*.*

4. These are the prefixes used by individual ReportBuilder units. 'pp' is
used for ReportBuilder units, 'da' is used for DADE units, and 'ra' is used
for RAP units. Depending on which ReportBuilder you have (Standard,
Professional or Enterprise) you may not have all of these unit types.



Additional Notes

1. Never have Delphi running when installing ReportBuilder.

2. All ReportBuilder related files should be stored in the root directory
$(DELPHI)\RBuilder.

3. All ReportBuilder run-time packages should be stored in the
Windows\System directory.

4. You should never have ReportBuilder files in Delphi\Lib, Delphi\Bin or
Delphi\Projects\Bpl.

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Tech Support mailto:support@digital-metaphors.com
Digital Metaphors http://www.digital-metaphors.com


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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors
www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

Hello Nard,

First of all thanks for your assistance. Secondly, I followed your
suggestion and completely removed old RB as described in the
article and checked the DataSettings.

It had no effect, problem still occurs. Funny thing is that no break
in the source appears. Looks like everything is handled perfectly
except that the form is not shown.

Any other ideas?

Kind Regards,

jerri

rbuser

What kind of problems have you been having? I have been having some
issues as well. When I make any change in the data tab, the where 'c'
<> 'c' is being saved in the report. I occasionally am missing the
order by statements as well. I haven't figured out why yet.

Thanks,
Nick Vaughan