How to detect Report Builder is installed?

rbuser

Hi,

I would like to know if I can detect Report Builder is installed on client
machine using Delphi? Any sample code?

Cheers,
Danny.

digitalmetaphors

ReportBuilder installs bpls into the windows system directory which would
indicate that RB is installed. You'll be looking for
dclRB*.bpl
dclRB*.dcp
rb*.bpl
rb*.dcp


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

I disagree!

After Installing RB or any other development tool or Delphi librarie I
remove all DLLs and BPLs to a project directory or the {delphi}\packages
directory!
I know that many other developers do so.
You can't rely on finding a BPL in the windows\system32 directory.

Robbi

digitalmetaphors

True, you can move the bpls and with through Delphi, the bpls can be found
and used to build your application. You'll have to search the client's hard
drive for these bpl files and maybe also look in the registry for all
ReportBuilder entries. The bpl entries should be in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Softaware\Borland\Delphi\6.0\KnownPackages


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

I'd be interested as to why you need to know.
Just curious... forgive me for prying :-)

Jon