Further to this, if you are using QR then there is a significant change.
All reports in QR 3.05 + REQUIRE you to have a detail band and it's data is
included in group totals whether or not you print it. This means you have
to suppress the printing of the detail band by setting it's height to 0.
This is covered inthe QuSoft Knowledge Base on their web site.
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: James Sugrue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 4:59 PM
Subject: RE: [DUG]: Upgrading D2 to D5
> I have just upgraded to D5 from D3 and it was relatively painless.
>
> Most of what I found was obvious, so at the risk of repeating the obvious
:
>
> Make a Backup of the source.
> Make sure it is possible to upgrade any third party components you may
have.
> I don't know about ReportSmith but make sure you upgrade QR to version
3.07,
> which is a free download from Qusoft.
>
> Once you have upgraded to D5 versions of your components, there are a few
> things you may have to look out for.
> Any WinAPI calls in your source may have changed the argument types. For
> example an Integer may now be a UINT. To find what the type has changed to
I
> just usually look up the Windows.pas file and find the Function
Declaration.
>
> I dont know about D2 but D3 source opens fine in D5. There may be issues
if
> you want to go back to D2 after you have saved it in D5 though.
>
> Once I had the new third party components, the source recompiled without
too
> much modification.
>
> In all I think it took around a morning to get everything running.
>
> One bit of advice I would give however is, if possible, keep a stable
> working version of your source that is D2 Compatible. Upgrading to newer
> compilers can cause new problems and it can be a hassle changing back to
the
> earlier version.
>
> Hope that helped.
>
> Good Luck
>
> James
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ernie Burgess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, 2 August 2000 09:41
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: [DUG]: Upgrading D2 to D5
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> We have an app in D2/Ibase5.6. Some in-house components, some ReportSmith
> and some QuickReports.
> We need to upgrade to D5.
> I've heard one should open the source files with a text editor and
> copy/paste all contents to a new D5 form. Is this true?
> Should we move D2 to D3 then D5, or go direct?
> Has anybody out there done this?
> If anyone has - we would really appreciate some words on how you went
about
> it, what you experienced, what we should expect, what to avoid etc etc.
> Any words indeed will be welcome.
>
> I've looked all around various newsgroups and bulletin boards - no
success.
>
> Thanx very much.
>
> Ernie Burgess
> Team Leader
> Education Software
> CPS Systems (NZ) Limited
>
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