Does TChart (standard) work with RB pro at all?

rbuser

i am using a standard (not full version) TChart in my RB report.
When i compiles my project the first time, i got the error
message 'IEdiCha not found'. In your help documentation i found
this message:

If you are getting an 'IEdiSeri' or 'IEdiCha' error message
when you try to compile a project that contains TeeChart
functionality, then TeeChart is probably installed correctly.

In order to get around these error messages you must either
compile your project with packages or purchase the registered
version of TeeChart from www.teemach.com.

So i compiled with the package option set and everything worked
fine. Now i found out that my program depends on the vcl50 lib
if i compile that way - so it is not acceptable to me.

Is there no other way to get the standard version of TChart
working? QuickReport had no problems with that...

I tried to put the 'ppChrt.pas' and 'ppIfDef.pas' in my source
folder to see if i can recomplie these files. If i do this, i
get the error 'TeeExport is undefined'...

Is there any other approach besides buying the full version of
TChart? I would not hesitate to do so, but it does not seem
logical to me.

Regards, Jens

P.S. Everything else in RB works wonderful for me! I will never
think of changing back to QR.


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rbuser

This is a decision of Steema, dot DM. In any case, I seldom put TCharts in
my report, even though I own the pro version. I have done this to simplify
the process. I configure one chart, the one in my program, and in the report
put a TppImage that gets a copy of the chart. This way if I may changes to
the way the chart works/looks in my software, I don't have to change what
appears in the report.

If you want more info, look at previous posts by me that include 'chart' in
the message.

HTH
Ed Dressel
Team DM

rbuser

Thanks Ed

This approach makes a lot of sense and one that I would like to look at
employing. However I can't find any previous posts from you though (probably
my limited knowledge of how to searc previous newsgroup posts). Any further
help would be appreciated.

Regards

Glenn
Key-Data Systems

digitalmetaphors

For the next release we have removed this compile problem just for RB
Standard. However, for RB Pro and Enterprise versions, which can use the
Teechart designer at runtime, you'll need the source to Teechart to resolve
the compile issue (if you don't want to build with runtime packages).

Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors