A collegue is trying to migrate a component from Delphi 4 to Delphi 5 but while
everything compiles, if he attempts to display the a form (the activex container for
the component) Delph 5 crashes. In Win95, its dead; on Win NT (where we tried
it in hopes of better stability) it comes up with access violation exception which
reappears as fast as we kill it, so have to use task manager to kill D5).
Obviously something seriously adrift with the form or one of the components in it.
What he would like is a text version of the DFM so can investigate what the hell it
is trying to do, or perhaps isolate the problem by successive deletion of bits of it.
Catch - cant turn DFM to text unless displayed; cant display it and have control
too. Does anyone know of other ways to get a text version of a DFM from outside
the IDE? (or without displaying the form).
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Phil Scadden, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences
PO Box 30368, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Ph +64 4 5704821, fax +64 4 5704603
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