ibobjects - Re: LONG, Re: [IBO] Installing IBObjects in Delphi 4 and Delphi 6

Subject	Re: LONG, Re: [IBO] Installing IBObjects in Delphi 4 and Delphi 6
Author	Gerard J.M. Houtenbos
Post date	2006-02-06T20:19:48Z

Helen, I have got it working .....

Thanks,

Gerard

On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 16:12:22 +1100, you wrote:

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>>At 07:48 AM 3/02/2006, Gerard Houtenbos wrote: 
>> >Helen, let's first focus on Delphi 4. 
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>> >I deleted IBObjects using the uninstaller 
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>At 10:31 AM 3/02/2006, you wrote: 
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>>Oops. The Uninstaller hasn't been implemented, AFAIR. You've 
>>literally got to do a rigorous cleanup. 
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>I'll expand on this: yes, run the uninstaller to clean it from your 
>MSI database, but don't expect it to uninstall anything. 
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>I also wrote: 
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>>Yes, but because I have 5 versions of Delphi on my dev machine, I 
>>will not use anything but the ...Raw... kit. (Sorry, but the 
>>installers just wreck everything here.) 
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>>I will install on D4 and try to follow up any errors that occur. 
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>OK, I've spent a good part of the day on this so far. I've installed 
>v.4.6A into Delphi 4, Delphi 6 and Delphi 7, using the ..RawSource kit. 
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>First: both D7 and D6 installed flawlessly into clean IBO root folders. 
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>I also (eventually) managed to get all of the valid packages for 
>Delphi 4 to install, *except* for the RPL and FTS components. Both 
>exhibited the same error, a change involving the MacroSubstitute 
>procedure, which appears to involve something that D4 doesn't support. 
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>Now, next is where the LONG part starts. I'll describe the procedure 
>I followed in all three cases, step-by-step. (This is partly for me 
>and partly for you, as I'm currently engaged in updating the front 
>section of the IBO Help and right now I'm stuck on the Installation 
>chapter, between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. I'm considering 
>including the procedure below as a temporary help, until Jason either 
>gets the installer issues sorted out, or decides that the former way 
>of distributing the IBO source has a lot more going for it than the 
>frustrations of trying to make one single installer script work for 
>all the numerous variations and IDE bugs !!) 
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>OK, here goes. These steps must be done in the order given. It 
>looks a bit complicated the first time you do it but I promise you 
>that you will be able to do it in your sleep before you know it! It 
>includes several workarounds for known bugs in the Delphi IDEs. 
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>1) Open Delphi. (IMPORTANT: For Delphi 4, if Delphi is already 
>running, close it and then restart it.) 
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>2) Open Components|Install Packages from the menu and, selecting 
>each IBO package in turn, click the Remove button and answer all 
>dialogs. DO NOT use the checkboxes to "remove" the packages. You 
>must literally remove them, so that they do not appear in the package 
>list at all. 
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>3a) Create a new directory for your IBO root. I created e:\ibo46_dn, 
>in each case, where 'n' is replaced by the Delphi version number. 
>3b) Beneath the IBO root, create a directory for the DCP files. I 
>created e:\ibo46_dn\dcp. 
>3b) Create another directory to act as a repository for junk. I 
>created e:\trashcan. 
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>4) In Delphi, edit all library, output and browse paths so that they 
>find your IBO root, your DCP files and your BPL files. The one I 
>always use fro BPLs, for all 3P packages, is 
>($DELPHI)\Projects\BPL. If that directory doesn't exist, create it. 
>IMPORTANT FOR D4: Do not trust the IDE to update your library paths 
>properly. It may take several attempts. Use Delete and Add, rather 
>than Replace, since Replace seems to have about a 20% first-time 
>success rate.I do strongly recommend having the explicit dcp 
>subdir. I will explain later. 
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>5) Do a File | Save All and, when prompted, save the default project 
>into your "trashcan" directory. This is essential for D4 and is 
>recommended for D6. It didn't seem to be needed for D7. The purpose 
>of this is to make sure that Delphi updates the package and path 
>lists. You can later just delete the default project sources from 
>your trashcan. 
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>6) EXIT FROM DELPHI. 
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>7) Now, if you ran the installer previous, go the Control Panel | 
>Add/Remove programs and run the uninstaller to clean out the IBO 
>entry in question. 
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>8. Delete or rename your old IBO root folder. 
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>9. Find all the old IBO40xxx_Dn.bpl and dcp files that apply to the 
>Dn version you want to install IBO for. The safest thing is to do a 
>search everywhere for IBO40*.* and select all of the *.Dn.bpl and 
>*.Dn.dcp files in the result list for the "n" you are interested 
>in; then delete them or move them somewhere right out of reach of 
>your Delphi or system paths. 
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>Now, you should have a clean system. 
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>10) Restart Delphi and close the default project. 
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>11) Open the package IBO40_Dn.bpg project group that's in your new 
>IBO root folder. (If the Project Manager isn't showing, go into the 
>menu and set it to display.) 
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>12) Right-click on the first package displayed in the Project 
>Manager's package list and Open it; then just move it out of the 
>way. You won't need it, but don't close it. 
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>13) Go to the Menu and select Project | Build All Projects. You can 
>watch in the editbox at the top of the project manager, to see the 
>compiler working its way through the package list. When it's 
>finished, this editbox will show the first package again. 
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>OK, now, I got this far with all of the Delphi versions. From here, 
>it gets unstuck for Delphi 4, so FIRST DO THE FOLLOWING STEP FOR 
>DELPHI 4 ONLY -- 
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>-- Go to ..\Borland\Delphi4\Projects\BPL and select all of the DCP 
>files that were just created by the compiler. Press Ctrl-X to cut 
>the out, then paste them into the dcp folder that you created earlier 
>beneath your new IBO root. 
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>The remaining steps apply to all versions. For D4, you will 
>encounter some errors and warnings, with references to zlib.pas and 
>TIB_OleContainer. Just take the default replies and IBO will install 
>OK for you anyway. (I have a snapshot trail of these errors for 
>Jason to inspect at his leisure...) 
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>14) Go down the package list in the Project Manager, to the first 
>Design-time package (...DT..). Right click on the entry and select 
>Install. Click OK on the modal message and move on to the next 
>...DT... package in sequence. 
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>15) Repeat step 14 until you have installed all of the ...DT... 
>packages in your list. (For D4, don't try to install the two 
>runtime/designtime packages ...RPL... and ...FTS... - it will fail.) 
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>16) Now, select File | Save All. Wait until the button pops back 
>up, then select File | Close All. 
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>You're done. If you like, go and check that the BPL and DCP files 
>are all in their proper places... 
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>Helen 
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