Hi Chris, > I am collaborating on a program with a friend of mine who has Delphi > 2006 and I have Delphi 2005. His program keeps adding a number of > properties to some form files which I don't have. namely explicittop > explicitleft explicitwidth etc.
I wrote a blog entry about these properties. http://jedqc.blogspot.com/2006/02/d2006-what-on-earth-are-these-explicit.html > I can compile the program ok, but if I try to run the program it dies > a horrible death because it doesn't recognise these properties. Yes, the streaming of the forms are failing. > My only solution at the moment is to load each form file, change it > slightly and resave it in D2005 to remove them. > > Is there another solution? Sure. Upgrade. That aside you might be able to create a class helper on TControl and add these properties to it (might not work for published properties though). Not sure if that will work but might be worth a shot. > Is is possible for me to hack some file to enable D2005 to handle > this error? Not sure > Is is possible to have compiler directives in the dfm file? No. You could write a standalone parser to scan the DFM files and delete the properties from it, being that the DFM's are most likely just a text file. cheers, Jeremy _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
