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- From: galaxy@interpath.com (ozone)
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- Subject: Problems with BC50
- Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 23:35:47 GMT
- Organization: Interpath -- Providing Internet access to North Carolina
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- I have installed the Borland C++ 5.0 product on the system at my home.
- This system is a Gateway 2000 100Mhz pentium with 32 megs of ram and
- two, one gig hd's.
-
- I have been using the Borland C++ product since ver. 3.0. I have never
- had this many problems from a single product of any type. Please
- respond with any info you may have on the problems I have experienced
- over the past couple of days.
-
- 1.) To install the full product along with the tools needed to create
- a windows 95 application took over 300 megs of disk space. I started
- with 280 or so megs.
- Install failed reporting a full disk error. Not really a problem just
- a surprise. It's close to 100 megs more than install said it would
- need. Perhaps they failed to allow for the temp file created by
- install.
-
- 2.) Borland C++ uninstall program damaged the registry, this caused
- problems with other programs. I had to reinstall windows 95, all of my
- software and drivers for scanners and other hardware. This little
- process took 11-1/2 hours and some much appreciated help from
- Microsoft tech. support.
-
- 3.) Code generated with AppExpert will not run. Error message says
- "Can not load module mapi32.dll.". What is mapi32.dll? The explorer
- can not find it on the Borland C++ distribution CD or either of my
- fixed disk drives.
- When I change the settings in the IDE to a "static" link and rebuild
- the entire application I recieve another error message saying "Invalid
- module assigned to window.". I even tried to generate a new
- application using only the default values provided by Borland. The
- results were the same.
-
- I changed the target in the IDE to the Win 3.1 target. The compiler
- returns an "Out of memory." message. I shut down windows and rebooted
- with the same results.
-
- 4.) OWL code written with BC45 will not run. The compiler returns a
- message "Type name expected." and takes me to a line that
- reads"catch(TGDIBase::TXGDi) {. All documentation seems to indicate
- this is correct. It has worked well with ver. 4.5.
-
- 5.) Attemp to view a 24bit color image with the BmpView example locks
- up the application. It works well with version 4.5.
-
- 6.) Rich edit example will not print. I do not know if this is a
- problem with the actual control in riched32.dll or if it is a problem
- with one of the wrapper classes that are part of the OWL.
-
- If you have had similar problems or if you have a solution for any of
- these problems please e-mail me.
-
- If you are using the Visual C++ product please let me know if you are
- or are not having similar problems.
-
- thanx
- eugene
-
-