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In the six months or so that I've had my Delphi 4 (Standard) I have
never gotten a third-party component package to install.  They compile
fine, but within about 4 seconds of clicking on INSTALL my otherwise
very stable Win95 machine locks up.

It doesn't matter whose package it is - if it is going to register a
component and put it up on the tool pallette, it dies. I've reinstalled
Delphi 4 with no difference.

This is the same problem reported by Julie in
the "vcl.components.using" forum on 7/25 under the heading "Installing
components".  No one offered any meaningful suggestions that I can
see.

I have only a few clues.  The shareware CoolComponents includes two DPK
files.  The first one, which does not put any tools on the Pallette
installs, but it is the second one that dies.

I tried this under Win95's "safe mode" and succeeded in a curious way.
The bad install gave me a "missing file" message this time.  Not
knowing what else to do, I removed the "required" files from the dpk
window (common VCL files and one created from the first dpk) and added
them again with the browse feature.  Apparently this proved they were
present because the install worked!

Unfortunately, safe mode makes you the "default" user and that user has
no standard components so you can't work there.  This did NOT solve the
problem.  When I logged on normally the CoolComponents were gone and
installing still produces crashes.  Interestingly enough, I could log
on to Win95 as the default user (by cancelling the password request),
NOT in safe mode, and add other packages that had previously failed.
Never saw the missing file message again.  Does this sound like a
program that gets too fancy with the Win95 registry?

Unfortunately my pet project requires some unique tools and I can't
proceed without them.  Will have to s{*word*99} Delphi if I can't get this
fixed.  Since I'm not the only one to experience this problem, perhaps
someone has the answer?

Ken Welch
Houston

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Re:Tools Never Install


Hello Ken:

You know the saying "Never say Never"  :-)   Our tools install just
fine, but you didn't state what type of application you're working on,
nor what you want the tools to do.  If it's anything to do with
imaging, then I'd ask you to visit SkyLine Tools Imaging's website at
www.imagelib.com.  You'll find our tools very easy to install, and - to
quote a customer I spoke to today, our "response time is by far the
best of ANY company" that he's dealt with in the past.  You're welcome
to contact us via e-mail at sa...@imagelib.com.  We're here to help!

Also, you'll find fully-functional demo versions of ALL our products on
our website.  Why not download one and check it out?

In article <7r9pvs$f3...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Ken Welch in Houston <ken_we...@bigfoot.com> wrote:

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> In the six months or so that I've had my Delphi 4 (Standard) I have
> never gotten a third-party component package to install.  They compile
> fine, but within about 4 seconds of clicking on INSTALL my otherwise
> very stable Win95 machine locks up.

> It doesn't matter whose package it is - if it is going to register a
> component and put it up on the tool pallette, it dies. I've
reinstalled
> Delphi 4 with no difference.

> This is the same problem reported by Julie in
> the "vcl.components.using" forum on 7/25 under the heading "Installing
> components".  No one offered any meaningful suggestions that I can
> see.

> I have only a few clues.  The shareware CoolComponents includes two
DPK
> files.  The first one, which does not put any tools on the Pallette
> installs, but it is the second one that dies.

> I tried this under Win95's "safe mode" and succeeded in a curious way.
> The bad install gave me a "missing file" message this time.  Not
> knowing what else to do, I removed the "required" files from the dpk
> window (common VCL files and one created from the first dpk) and added
> them again with the browse feature.  Apparently this proved they were
> present because the install worked!

> Unfortunately, safe mode makes you the "default" user and that user
has
> no standard components so you can't work there.  This did NOT solve
the
> problem.  When I logged on normally the CoolComponents were gone and
> installing still produces crashes.  Interestingly enough, I could log
> on to Win95 as the default user (by cancelling the password request),
> NOT in safe mode, and add other packages that had previously failed.
> Never saw the missing file message again.  Does this sound like a
> program that gets too fancy with the Win95 registry?

> Unfortunately my pet project requires some unique tools and I can't
> proceed without them.  Will have to s{*word*99} Delphi if I can't get this
> fixed.  Since I'm not the only one to experience this problem, perhaps
> someone has the answer?

> Ken Welch
> Houston

> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.

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