RB crashes Delphi?

rbuser

I am evaluating ReportBuilder, and currently I am working with the "Forms
Emulation with a WMF Image" chapter in the tutorial. I have followed the
instructions closely, created the calculated fields etc, and come to this
section:

"11 Check to make sure that the calculated fields are
listed. If they are not, then close the Field Editor;
set the AutoCreateFields property to False in the
Object Inspector, then set it back to True. Launch
the Field Editor again and make sure the new fields
are listed."

Curious as I am, I feel like opening and closing the Field Editor a couple
of times, toggling the AutoCreateFields property a bit, etc, to see what
happens. If I then click a bit here and there on the items in the pipeline
Field Editor (on the field names), Delphi will crash big time. The first
time around I got the error message "Invalid class typecast", and Delphi
disappeared from my system. Upon trying the same again, Delphi will each
time sink in a flood of Access Violation messages.

Did I touch something I shouldn't?
I have Win2000 server (build 2195:SP2), Delphi 5 Enterprise (build 6.18,
UP1), RB 6.03 demo.

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Mvh/regards
Svein Olav Mytting
Intelligent Software AS
Bogstadvn 60A, 0366 Oslo

digitalmetaphors

We've found that toggling the AutoCreateFields isn't working for the most
part. It shouldn't AV or shut down Delphi, though. We've seen a list index
out of bounds as the worst behavior. For now, and until the
AutoCreateFields 'toggling' is repaired in a future release, we recommend
deleting the datapipeline on the form, if you change the selected fields
coming from a query, and create a new datapipeline which will show the new
fields.

Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors