At 01:04 PM 06-06-02 +0000, you wrote:

>I need help with an IBObjects 4.2 install:
>
>D3.02, W2K/SP2, C:\IBO4
>
>Compiling in order:
>
>IBO40CRT_D3.dpk OK
>
>
>IBO40TRT_D3.dpk
>
>1st problem was D6400 Internal Error.
>Remains a usenet archive mystery (mostly).
>
>However, even though my environment options had explicity
>set Library DPL and DCP output directories, and no other
>(so far) new packages had complained, I could not get the
>D6400 error to go away without adding the DPL and DCP dirs
>to my library path. Is this supposed to be a logical
>requirement in the various Delphi versions?
>
>(I presume that 'DPL' has been superceded by 'BPL' at
>some point (D4?) to maintain concurrence w/BCB?)
>
>Now, w/DPL and DCP added to my Library path, IBO40TRT_D3.dpk
>will not compile because of a compile error on
>
> IB_Import.pas: undeclared identifier 'ValueExists'

For now, try commenting out IB_Import.pas from the 'contains' list in the
package source.

>which I presume is a call to the Registry unit, which
>is not in 'uses'.
>
>I can add it to the 'uses' but I don't think that it
>is recompiling a new dcu because the error will not cease
>and desist.
>
>Aside from help with this specific issue, if anyone has any
>more references to specific D3.02/IBObjects install issues,
>I'd be grateful - I'm concerned that my D3 install
>difficulties may only be beginning, given that, in
>'internet time,' D3 coincides with just past the
>classical Greek period.

There is a major issue with using IBO4 with Delphi 3, if you need to use
the native IBO controls (which, in fact, you do, in the IDE property
editors, even if you are going to use TDataset-compatible components for
data access, and therefored would be using the VCL data-aware
controls). The D3 problem has to do with its buggy implementation of
object interfacing, which the native controls use extensively in IBO4.

Contact me directly if you want to try IBO3 instead...

regards,
Helen Borrie (TeamIBO Support)

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