Rotated text addon from CoolDev

rbuser

I am using RB 5.0 standard with Delphi4. I recently added the RoatateText
object from CoolDev. First, as I've read about here, the install failed
because of the Requires RBRCL66 which couldn't be found. After some
checking I renamed that to match the RBRCL54 that I have. That problem
sovled I installed again and got a fatal error on the {Align 8} section of
the component. If I remove that line the object installs and works fine
with ReportBuilder.

The questions:

1 - Why does the {Align 8} section need to be removed in order to install
and is it compromising the component?

2 - Everytime I restart Delphi I get the message that the component package
for the rotatetext component can't be found or loaded - any way to stop
this. Obviously I am not installing the component properly, but could use
some help on this one.

Thanks for your time,

Mark Warren
markwarren@charter.net

digitalmetaphors

When you recompiled the design time package into Delphi, where did you set
the bpl/dcp output directories to?- (From the Dephi menu: Tools |
Environment Options | Library) They default to ..\Delphi\Projects\bpl
usually. Make sure that the BuilderControls.bpl and dcp files exist. When
you installed the package, was it successful? Search your hard drive for
the two BuilderControls dcp and bpl files, perhaps you have mismatched
versions of these two files on your machine which is causing a conflict
between the runtime and designtime packages that Delphi finds when it tries
to load the bpls.

Maybe you have an older version of the component? I looked at the one
available from our website and I don't see the {$align 8} directive in the
package. Check out the Delphi help file on compiler directives. It should
be safe to remove this one.

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/rcl/bldctls.zip



Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors