Upgrading TeeChart from 4.04 to 7.02

rbuser

Disclaimer: I am a complete newbie to both RB and Delphi, stupid questions
may follow.

Hi,
I am currently running Delphi 7, with ReportBuilder 7.03 Enterprise
installed. I have been trying to get ReportBuilder to include my newly
installed TChart 7.02 Pro package but I am unsure how to do this. I tried to
reinstall ReportBuilder after I had installed Teechart and ticked off the
add Teechart 4 support. This did not work at all and also messed up my
Teechart installation. What I basically need is a step-by-step list of erm..
steps for what I need to do, with all details included. I have been reading
some posts on this news server but I have not found anything that explains
it. I found the Installing Teechart package thread below and this mentioned
something about a RBTeePackageBuilder application but I can't find this
anywhere on my machine, so I suppose it didn't come with my installation.
Please excuse my ignorance :-) Any help is much appreciated!

Håvard

digitalmetaphors

Hi Håvard,

The RBTeePackageBuilder application was introduced for RB 10.05. You need
to be sure TeeChart 7.02 is the version natively supported by the version of
ReportBuilder you are installing. To see which versions of TeeChart are
supported, take a look at the ReportBuilder help under the ReportBuilder
Reference | TeeChart | Delphi 7... section. Then you will need to install
the version of TeeChart and reinstall ReportBuilder.

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

> Hi Håvard,

OK, my help file says the following:
TeeChart 6
ReportBuilder 7.02 or later
Status: Fully Operational

TeeChart 5.03
ReportBuilder 7.01 or later
Status: Fully Operational

TeeChart 4.04
ReportBuilder 6.03 or later
Status: Partially Operational

so I assume that Teechart 7 is not supported by this version. I think I'll
have to try and generate the TCharts as pictures and get them from there
then?
Thanks though!
Håvard

Status Notes

nicocizik

I believe ReportBuilder 7.04 supported TeeChart 7.0. If you are interested
in upgrading, please send an email to info@digital-metaphors.com with your
serial number and purchasing email address.

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

I got my boss to shell out for the new version 10 of RB and was hoping that
this would solve all my problems.
The problem is that after I installed it and the packagebuilder applications
starts up it does not seem to detect my installed Teechart version. It
reports that TeeChart Major Version is 0 and the directory is set to be
c:\program files\borland\delphi7\Projects\Bpl\. (just repeating here that
I'm a newbie . What does this latter directory mean? Is this where it
tries to locate the Teechart files? I tried to compile and install the
individual dpk files under Tee700 it compains and says that
'Cannot load package 'Tee77.' It contains unit 'TeeAbout,'which is also
contained in package 'DclTeePro''

How do I go about solving this?

Any help is much appreciated! (my boss is anxious to see some results soon


Håvard

nicocizik

Hi Håvard,

The errors you are seeing most likely indicate there are still old
RB/TeeChart files being used on your machine. Try completely removing
ReportBuilder and TeeChart from your machine then reinstall TeeChart, then
RB in that order. Follow the steps below to remove ReportBuilder. If you
are still having problems after this, please send the BuildTeeLog.txt file
located in the \RBuilder\TeeChart\Tee700\... directory to
support@digital-metaphors.com for us to take a look at.

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Article: Cleaning up a Corrupt Installation
--------------------------------------------

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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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com