Unable to create directory

rbuser

I suppose this isn't going to be enough information to point me in a
productive direction, but here goes anyway. I'm freshly upgraded to D2010
and RB 11.06 and most of my reports throw an access violation when I try to
run them. In debug mode, I get EInOutError with message 'Unable to create
directory' before it goes on to the AV. Some reports, which are using a
different report object, work, and some other reports using yet another
report object throw the same AV. I've tried my best to make the non-working
report object look like the working one, but so far I haven't managed to get
rid of the pesky problem. Any ideas? I keep my reports in an rbItem table,
if that info is of any help.

nardmoseley

Have not heard of this before. Try adding RBuilder\Source to your Delphi
library path and run using the debugger to break on exceptions. When the
exception occurs, examine the debugger call stack.

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Nard Moseley
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rbuser

Ooh, good idea. But I get errors when I compile. In ppPrintr at lines 4463
and 4503: E2010 Incompatible types: 'TppEscapeDataRec' and 'AnsiChar'.

nardmoseley

We don't have any errors compiling the source code here. Perhaps you hae a
compiler option turned on that does not like that code.



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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors
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rbuser

After learning more about compiler options than I really wanted to know (and
with some surprises about which ones should be on and off), the 'Unable to
create directory' message is coming from line 526 of ppIniStorage:
TMemIniFile(CustomIniFile).Updatefile;

nardmoseley

You can use the TppDesigner.IniStorageName to control the location of
RBuilder.ini. If you place a new TppDesigner component on a form you will
see the new default location is ($LocalAppData)\RBuilder\RBuilder.ini, which
is Vista/Windows 7 security friendly.

I recommend modifying your existing projects to use the new default
location.

There is also a new storage option for TppDesigner.IniStorageType called
'IniNone'. You can use that if you do not want RB to save/load any
preferences.

As for the compiler options, I use the Delphi default compiler options and
do not have any issues compiling against the RB source code.



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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors
www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

I'm not using a Designer object, just a report and a few DBpipelines. Is
there somewhere else I can set IniStorageType to iniNone?

rbuser

Aha! I knew this was sounding familiar! I had an old
TppIniStoragePlugin.SetStorageName in my code from before. I took it out and
life is beautiful! Thanks so much for your help!