mkebe
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Empty component palette
I installed Delphi 6.0 in my machine which uses Windows NT operating system long time ago. When i recently tried to run delphi32, it runned yes, but did not load anything in the components palette. What could have caused this and how can i reload the components? You see, i lost the CD for installation so i can't uninstall and re-install. Could there be a way of manually writting the registry information to rectify this manually?
Hi mkebe ...
If you do a search on your harddisk in the Borland directory for *.BPL (the files that hold all the components), find this directory (eg : D:\Program Files\Borland\Delphi5\Bin)
Component >> Install Packages >> Add
Now search in the directory path where you found the .BPL files, and select all of them !
Hit Open ... you will be informed of some run-time only packages that will not install - this is normal ... the majority of the packages should install ok, and afterwards, your component pallette should return to normal !
Hope this helps,
STeve
If you do a search on your harddisk in the Borland directory for *.BPL (the files that hold all the components), find this directory (eg : D:\Program Files\Borland\Delphi5\Bin)
Component >> Install Packages >> Add
Now search in the directory path where you found the .BPL files, and select all of them !
Hit Open ... you will be informed of some run-time only packages that will not install - this is normal ... the majority of the packages should install ok, and afterwards, your component pallette should return to normal !
Hope this helps,
STeve
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To check my theory you can log in as the user that installed delphi. Start delphi, if everything is ok then I am right.
I am not sure about 6, but D5 has an option to just reregister. If D6 has this option too, it will reinstall your component pallette.
Sorry, overlooked your missing cd.
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Select Component->Install packages menu items.
In displayed dilaog click on Add button. In Open dilaog navigate into \bin folder, select all .bpl files and click Open button.
After that close dialog by OK button.