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Re: Serial port component, ComDrv32 vs SerialNG

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P E Schoen wrote:
> "P E Schoen"  wrote in message news:jq27tr$ii0$1@dont-email.me...
> 
>> I downloaded it, installed it, and I'm running the terminal demo.
>> Seems to work well.
> 
> 
> I spoke too soon. I am not sure I installed it correctly, and while the 
> application was running it got hung up and I had to close Delphi. When I 
> restarted, I got a series of errors. So I have Delphi running, and
> 
> (1) I select the A406_R40.dpk as a project
> (2) I compile it. I don't see any indication that it did, but I think it 
> was already compiled. I have the A406_R40.bpl in the packages folder, 
> and the date/time is current.
> (3) I click install but it gives me the error not a design time package. 
> OK.
> (4) I close the project.
> (5) I choose to install the A406_D40.dcu. It tries to read it into the 
> editor and truncates a line.
> (6) I choose to install the A406_R40.dcu. It tells me the package was 
> installed and components registered and they appear on the tabbed list. 
> Now I can load the demo project and all is OK, for now.
> (7) I exit Delphi, and then restart. It says the program can't start 
> because A406_R40.bpl is missing from your system. Try reinstalling the 
> program to fix this problem.
> (8) Then another dialog box about trying to load it next time. I click 
> no and I don't get the errors, but the components are gone until I 
> reinstall them.
> 
> But the A406_R40.BPL is in the Delphi4\Lib folder and it has been 
> updated. I'm not real excited about reinstalling Delphi and the upgrade 
> patches and regenerating the various other components I have, but maybe 
> that's what it will take. But for now, I'll just use the serial port 
> component I have that seems to be working.
> 
> I don't fully understand the process of installing packages and 
> components. Some other weird things also happened, where it complained 
> that the file was already open in another editor, and the A406_D40 was 
> added to the project and it complained it could not find the PAS file of 
> that name.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paul

  If you are operating the system in package mode, I think you need a 
copy of the package file in OS system folder.

   If you browse your windows/system32 folder, you may find many package 
files there.


   When a final product runs on another PC, the system32 folder is 
usually the place the packages get installed, if it gets compiled to
work that way.

   You can elect a stand alone app of course, with everything compiled 
in it, which is what I do however, the IDE, the last time I looked, 
operates via packages. Also, if you are seeing this error in a test run, 
it too maybe expecting to find the package in the system32 folder.

Jamie

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Serial port component, ComDrv32 vs SerialNG "P E Schoen" <paul@peschoen.com> - 2012-05-26 20:27 -0400
  Re: Serial port component, ComDrv32 vs SerialNG Jamie <jamie_ka1lpa_not_valid_after_ka1lpa_@charter.net> - 2012-05-26 21:08 -0400
  Re: Serial port component, ComDrv32 vs SerialNG "S.G" <S.G@none.special.ch> - 2012-05-27 12:44 +0300
    Re: Serial port component, ComDrv32 vs SerialNG Marco van de Voort <marcov@turtle.stack.nl> - 2012-05-27 20:40 +0000
      Re: Serial port component, ComDrv32 vs SerialNG "P E Schoen" <paul@peschoen.com> - 2012-05-27 22:29 -0400
        Re: Serial port component, ComDrv32 vs SerialNG "S.G" <S.G@none.special.ch> - 2012-05-28 08:55 +0200
          Re: Serial port component, ComDrv32 vs SerialNG Jamie <jamie_ka1lpa_not_valid_after_ka1lpa_@charter.net> - 2012-05-28 11:08 -0400
          Re: Serial port component, ComDrv32 vs SerialNG "P E Schoen" <paul@peschoen.com> - 2012-05-29 00:31 -0400
            Re: Serial port component, ComDrv32 vs SerialNG Marco van de Voort <marcov@toad.stack.nl> - 2012-05-29 07:34 +0000
            Re: Serial port component, ComDrv32 vs SerialNG "S.G" <S.G@none.special.ch> - 2012-05-29 11:09 +0200
              Re: Serial port component, ComDrv32 vs SerialNG "P E Schoen" <paul@peschoen.com> - 2012-05-29 06:20 -0400
                Re: Serial port component, ComDrv32 vs SerialNG "P E Schoen" <paul@peschoen.com> - 2012-05-29 08:35 -0400
                Re: Serial port component, ComDrv32 vs SerialNG Jamie <jamie_ka1lpa_not_valid_after_ka1lpa_@charter.net> - 2012-05-29 11:43 -0400
                Re: Serial port component, ComDrv32 vs SerialNG "P E Schoen" <paul@peschoen.com> - 2012-05-30 03:10 -0400
                Re: Serial port component, ComDrv32 vs SerialNG Jamie <jamie_ka1lpa_not_valid_after_ka1lpa_@charter.net> - 2012-05-30 11:01 -0400
    Re: Serial port component, ComDrv32 vs SerialNG "P E Schoen" <paul@pstech-inc.com> - 2016-08-18 19:50 -0400

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