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Installing new versions of RichView: 'deleting' and 'building' |
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William Reid Boyd |
Posted: 09/04/2003 22:12:07 Hello, I'm installing the latest version of RichView. The ReadMe file tells you to 'delete' the old version and not to forget to 'rebuild' them. Can I ask that future releases include advice on how to do this for types like me (very good mahematicians etc. who don't really know a damn thing about computers and programming, for example)? The fact is that I don't have the first idea how to do these things and the Delphi Help file doesn't help (or if it does it is very discrete about it). It is a grave weakness of the otherwise excellent Delphi Help system that it doesn't include essential information like this, easily locatable. I had to ask Sergey, for example, how to include library paths so my projects know where to look for units not in the project directory, something I had never been able to fathom - if it's in the Help file then I couldn't find it, and it's very far from obvious, to me anyway, that you should look in Tools/Enviroment Options (Compiler Options is where I was looking), and of course there are dozens and dozens of menus and tabs to search. Another example of inadequate documenation of essential information I can offer is the *.DSK file, which should <not> be copied (strange but true - it's not obvious) if you are copying your project to a new directory. A few years ago I nearly lost hundreds and hundreds of hours valuable simulation time because of it: I was only able to recover because I back-up stuff like that on a daily basis. In this case my attempt to reinstall RichEdit resulted in me losing all the RichView Miscellaneous components (I 'removed' the components and deleted the relevant units from my BPL file) and the moment I saw that, I knew that probably I will have to reinstall Delphi from scratch and all the packages I use - it's the only way I know to get a clean slate - and I've had to do it at least half a dozen times with other people's packages. Of course I shall try to recover without doing that, but past experience so far is not encouraging. So please, next time - tips on 'deleting' and 'building'! Please. Components and packages are really complicated, and people like me install them only a few times, so it never becomes second nature - there should be wizards for them IMHO. sincerely, William Boyd |
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