At 10:09 PM 23/10/2007, you wrote:

>Hello
>
>This is sightly OT but I'm getting desperate and would appreciate any
>suggestions...
>
>Something has changed in my D6 environment, when I try to drop a derivitive
>of TIB_Grid on a form I get an access violation in rtl60.bpl.
>
>I have removed my package and all of IBO and its bpls. Then reinstalled
>IBO. Created a new package and put a derivitive of TIB_Grid in it. This
>derivitive has no code it just inherits from TIB_Grid. If I open a new
>project and try and drop the derivitive on it I get the access violation.
>I can drop a TIB_Grid itself on the form OK.
>
>If I create the derivitive at run time from a button OnClick it creates OK.
>
>Any help much appreciated

Tell us if Delphi 6 is the most recent Delphi version you have tried to use (and thus you don't know about the radical changes in the RTL from D6-onward...)

Helen