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lonniekong

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Feb 5, 2007, 5:06:51 AM2/5/07
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Does Vista support BDE and the Program compiled by Delphi 4 ?

Best regards,

Lonnie


Dave Nottage [TeamB]

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Feb 5, 2007, 6:02:22 AM2/5/07
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lonniekong wrote:

> Does Vista support BDE and the Program compiled by Delphi 4 ?

I think you mean the other way around, ie do BDE and Delphi 4 programs
support Vista? Not officially, although you can probably tweak the
programs and/or Vista to make them work.

This link may help:

http://www.installationexcellence.com/articles/VistaWithDelphi/Index.htm
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Jody

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Feb 5, 2007, 11:01:18 AM2/5/07
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The experience around my office is that BDE will not work on Vista. Has
anyone else had experience using BDE on Vista?

- Jody

Craig Stuntz [TeamB]

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Feb 5, 2007, 11:33:29 AM2/5/07
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Jody wrote:

> The experience around my office is that BDE will not work on Vista.

Works fine for us so far.

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lonniekong

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Feb 9, 2007, 3:39:57 AM2/9/07
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Hi,

I try to install the BDE on windows vista today, the installation is
sucessful but I can't run it.
Can you tell me more to run BDE on Vista ?

Best regards,

Lonnie


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> Jody wrote:
>
>> The experience around my office is that BDE will not work on Vista.
>
> Works fine for us so far.
>
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> Craig Stuntz [TeamB] ?Vertex Systems Corp. ?Columbus, OH

Craig Stuntz [TeamB]

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Feb 9, 2007, 8:27:02 AM2/9/07
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lonniekong wrote:

> I try to install the BDE on windows vista today, the installation is
> sucessful but I can't run it. Can you tell me more to run BDE on
> Vista ?

We just installed our software via the usual means and it runs. If you
want help with your problem, you might have to describe it.

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rosshgm

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Feb 18, 2007, 1:36:49 AM2/18/07
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My experience. The BDE will install all OK (from elavated priv), but
the app won't run in the default mode. The problems and solutions
were.

a/ The pdoxusrs.net file (which normally gets dropped into the root
'\'): this is not allowed there now. Instead set a common location
for this file with the {commonappdata} (found with
SHGetPathFromIdList). That location root is also protected from
single files so you need to make a sub-folder there. Also this new
folder will need its permissions changed to allow all Users to change
(modify) data within. I did all this with the installer.
In the app, set this new folder value into the Session.NetFileDir
property.

b/ If you have a data base with your app, then it will need to be
located like above in a common data location. You cannot write to the
same folder as the installed app.

c/ Set the Session.PrivateDir to something where file writing is
freely available.

rossh

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