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RB 5.5 with Delphi 6

edited April 2003 in General
Hello,

I need to be able to use RB 5.5 with Delphi 6. Could you please point me
in the right direction? Due to financial constraints we cannot buy the
latest version. Your help would be appreciated.

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  • edited April 2003
    RB 5.5 does not support Delphi 6. You'll have to upgrade to RB 7 to get
    native D6 (as well as D5 and D7) support. Instead of recompiling RB, we want
    you to spend your time building the reports you need and get your app
    shipped on time. The fastest and cheapest way to get there is to upgrade to
    RB 7.

    Why is it cheaper to upgrade? It is true that you may be able to rebuild and
    reinstall RB 5 to work in Delphi 6, but the time you spend trying to get
    this to work will be much more expensive (unless you work for free) than
    upgrading to RB 7. Bear in mind that we cannot provide technical support for
    your version of RB 5.5 for Delphi 6. It is also going to be up to you to
    maintain your custom version of RB, because at the minimum you will have to
    reinstall our packages manually if you get a new machine or have to
    reinstall Delphi 6 for some reason, let alone any new bugs you may introduce
    by modifying our code to get it to work. Technically, the new-for-D6 Object
    Treeview is going to cause you problems which we have already solved and
    have included in the latest release.

    Cheers,

    Jim Bennett
    Digital Metaphors


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