Re: Installing new versions of RichView: 'deleting' and 'building'

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Stef Mientki

Posted: 09/04/2003 23:49:23

I've some equal experience (D7 behaves sometimes real odd, compared to D5).

Maybe it would be better in case of updates,

only to distribute the .pas files,

so no de-installation is needed, just a rebuild of the package.

Stef Mientki

William Reid Boyd wrote:

> Hello,

> I'm installing the latest version of RichView. The ReadMe file tells you to

> 'delete' the old version and not to forget to 'rebuild' them.

> Can I ask that future releases include advice on how to do this for types

> like me (very good mahematicians etc. who don't really know a damn thing

> about computers and programming, for example)?

> The fact is that I don't have the first idea how to do these things and the

> Delphi Help file doesn't help (or if it does it is very discrete about it).

> It is a grave weakness of the otherwise excellent Delphi Help system that it

> doesn't include essential information like this, easily locatable. I had to

> ask Sergey, for example, how to include library paths so my projects know

> where to look for units not in the project directory, something I had never

> been able to fathom - if it's in the Help file then I couldn't find it, and

> it's very far from obvious, to me anyway, that you should look in

> Tools/Enviroment Options (Compiler Options is where I was looking), and of

> course there are dozens and dozens of menus and tabs to search.

> Another example of inadequate documenation of essential information I can

> offer is the *.DSK file, which should <not> be copied (strange but true -

> it's not obvious) if you are copying your project to a new directory. A few

> years ago I nearly lost hundreds and hundreds of hours valuable simulation

> time because of it: I was only able to recover because I back-up stuff like

> that on a daily basis.

> In this case my attempt to reinstall RichEdit resulted in me losing all the

> RichView Miscellaneous components (I 'removed' the components and deleted

> the relevant units from my BPL file) and the moment I saw that, I knew that

> probably I will have to reinstall Delphi from scratch and all the packages I

> use - it's the only way I know to get a clean slate - and I've had to do it

> at least half a dozen times with other people's packages.

> Of course I shall try to recover without doing that, but past experience so

> far is not encouraging.

> So please, next time - tips on 'deleting' and 'building'! Please. Components

> and packages are really complicated, and people like me install them only a

> few times, so it never becomes second nature - there should be wizards for

> them IMHO.

> sincerely,

> William Boyd