Marco, I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that
I can't break it anymore and so the bad news that I can't send you
the properties of the suspect component. After my initial problems, I
restored the unit from a backup copy and started over without coping
and pasting. I just now tried to copy (ctrl-c) and paste (ctrl-v)the
same (restored) tib_currency component from the same form to the same
form that I copied to before (a different form on a different unit)
and had no problems. The only explanation I can think of is that the
unit was corrupted somehow. At the time I was copying and pasting
various other ibo components and was having no problems. The backed-
up version doesn't seem to have the problem anymore. I am using
Windows 98. Anyway, I will try it again next week. Maybe it's time to
upgrade to Win 2000. Thanks.

Stan Walker

--- In IBObjects@y..., "Marco Menardi" <mmenaz@l...> wrote:
> Well, could you tell me detailed steps to reproduce? (i.e. select
form A...).
> What OS do you use? Win2000 (like I do) or something different?
> If you simply create a new project, create a second form, populate
the first one (with what compoents?), and the second one (what
components?), then copy an ib_currency form form A to form B, does it
go wrong?
> Have you tried setting the project for not to use runtime packages?
(it's my setup)
> In the first post, you were telling about "from one unit to a
different unit"...
> I ignored this, and tried to copy from one Form to a different Form
(select the component on the first form, ctrl-C, select the second
form, Ctrl-v). It works.
> I suppose you have to copy from one form to the other in order to
have the same properties value, could you please post me here the
properties of your ib_currency? (select the form, "view as text"...)
>
> Thanks
> Marco Menardi
>
> --- In IBObjects@y..., "stanw1950" <stanw@e...> wrote:
> > Marco, I will try to create a small app, but it won't be until
next
> > week. Since there is a workaround (just dropping the component on
the
> > form in the first place), this is not a critical issue. Also,
when
> > Delphi crashes all sorts of problems are created (for example,
the
> > form got corrupted the first time I did it) so I don't want to do
it
> > on my work computer. Thanks.
> >