Installation path confusion
Hi,
when installing 10.04 I saw that the suggested path (at least on a German
windows machine) was
"c:\programme\borland\delphi7\\rbuilder" with a double-backslash between
Delphi7 and RBuilder.
It might be that I installed Delphi 7 wrongly 2 years ago, but until now no
other components had probelms with that.
If you keep this suggested path, everything goes fine (it will later on not
have the double-backslash),
but if you eliminate the second "\" before installing you create a lot of
invalid paths.
I think you resolve the path "c:\programme\borland\delphi7\\rbuilder" into
something like "$(DELPHI)\rbuilder".
whereas "c:\programme\borland\delphi7\rbuilder" becomes "$(DELPHI)rbuilder".
As the delphi-path does not contain a trailing "\" it later tries do open
files from
"c:\programme\borland\delphi7rbuilder" without any backslash at all.
Hope you can follow my thoughts...
Stephan
when installing 10.04 I saw that the suggested path (at least on a German
windows machine) was
"c:\programme\borland\delphi7\\rbuilder" with a double-backslash between
Delphi7 and RBuilder.
It might be that I installed Delphi 7 wrongly 2 years ago, but until now no
other components had probelms with that.
If you keep this suggested path, everything goes fine (it will later on not
have the double-backslash),
but if you eliminate the second "\" before installing you create a lot of
invalid paths.
I think you resolve the path "c:\programme\borland\delphi7\\rbuilder" into
something like "$(DELPHI)\rbuilder".
whereas "c:\programme\borland\delphi7\rbuilder" becomes "$(DELPHI)rbuilder".
As the delphi-path does not contain a trailing "\" it later tries do open
files from
"c:\programme\borland\delphi7rbuilder" without any backslash at all.
Hope you can follow my thoughts...
Stephan
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Comments
Which edition of ReportBuilder are you trying to install? I will check the
install scripts for you.
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Nico Cizik
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"Stephan Leiwering, AdvanTex Software"
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I was installing 10.04 enterprise edition.
Stephan
The ReportBuilder installation program looks at the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Borland\Delphi\7.0\RootDir key value for the
Delphi directory. On my machine it's value is "C:\Program
Files\Borland\Delphi7". I imagine yours might have a back slash at the end
and that could be causing the issue.
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Nico Cizik
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"Stephan Leiwering, AdvanTex Software"
Nico Cizik
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I just verified it and indeed my path has a trailing backslash there.
It might be safe to check for that value and eliminate that backlash if
available during the installation script though.
Stephan
I just like to confirm this:
The suggested path was during my installation also was
"c:\programme\borland\delphi7\\rbuilder"
Regards,
Josef Gschwendtner
Thanks for the information. I'll make the appropriate changes to the
installation scripts.
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Nico Cizik
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"Stephan Leiwering, AdvanTex Software"
Nico Cizik
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There seems to be a difference in the root directory key value in different
Windows/Delphi versions. I will fix this for the next release.
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Nico Cizik
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this happened to me in version 9.xx and 7.xx (with Delphi 7). Interestingly
not for 10.01-10.03... I have Slovenian Windows XP
Best regards,
Goran