Please help on old report builder 4.1

rbuser

Greetings. Hope you guys can help me on this. I inherited an old application
on delphi which I don't know very well. It uses Report Builder. It keeps
complaining about missing component tppline, tpplabel, etc. I have already
had dclRB44.bpl installed. But I don't know where to find the pakcage that
contains those missing components. Please help.

Thanks,

nicocizik

Hi,

For future reference, please use your real name when posting to these
newsgroups.

My first suggestion would be to completely reinstall ReportBuilder and see
if that solves the problem.

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Regards,

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

rbuser

Thank, Nico. I registered with my real name. (Was posting through my regular news reader).

I re-installed it again and still could not get them fixed. Could you please let me know which
file I should be looking? I thought it should be rbRCL44.bpl under the source directory. But when
I tried to install that, it complains about:

Package C:/program files/borland/delphi4/rbuilder 4/source/rbRCL44.bpl can't be installed because
another package with the same base name is already loaded (C:/winnt/system32/rbRCL44.bpl)

Is rbRCL44.bpl the right file I should be looking at? or it's something else?

Thanks again!!

Ryan.




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nicocizik

Hi Ryan,

By re-installing, are you using the ReportBuilder installation application?
Try uninstalling RB completely from your machine and re-installing using the
installation application (.exe).

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Regards,

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

rbuser

Thanks again. Nico. Yes, I did un-installed RB and re-installed it. I still could not fine the
corresponding package. Could you please tell me which file I should be looking for which would
have those components? When I tried to install a package in Delphi, I saw
dclRB44.bpl, dclRBC41.bpl and dclRBU44.bpl in the Lib directory under RB; and in the Source
directory, I saw rbRCL44.bpl (but this one is not a design time package so I could not add it).

Please help,

Ryan





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nicocizik

Hi Ryan,

The rb*.bpl packages are runtime only packages that are located in the
$WINSYS directory. The designtime package dclRB*.bpl uses many of these
packages including rbRCL which should include all the report components. We
have never heard of any issues like this with any version of ReportBuilder.
My first guess is that you still have a corrupt installation on your
machine. Take a look at the following article to clean your PC completely
of any RB files then re-install.

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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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Regards,

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