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- From: grantp@usa.pipeline.com
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- Subject: Re: Problems with BC50
- Date: 24 Mar 1996 21:54:40 GMT
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- On Mar 24, 1996 23:35:47 in article <Problems with BC50>,
- 'galaxy@interpath.com (ozone)' wrote:
-
-
- >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.
- >
-
- Sorry to hear you've had problems with this product. My first reaction
- was to tell you how lucky you are for having received BC5.0 -- many
- of us are still waiting. After reading the rest of your article, however,
-
- I have to say I feel sympathy for you.
-
- >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.
- >
- This is surprising. What does the readme file say about system
- requirements?
-
- >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.
-
- MAPI is Microsoft's mail API. MAPI32.DLL should have been installed
- as part of your Win95 installation. I don't remember if MAPI install was
- optional, but I have it on all my win95 as well as NT machines.
-
- >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.
- >
- I'm using MSVC++ 4.1. I'm having no problems of any kind.
-
- Could some of you who have successfully installed BC5.0 please
- drop a short line to let us know about it to give us some idea
- as to how wide-spread Zach's problem is. I will certainly do so
- after my copy arrives, successful or otherwise.
-
- The 300mb disk requirement is of special concern to me
- as I'm currently hurting for disk space.
-
- Zachary: Have you contacted Borland about your problems?
-
- --
-
- Pete Grant
- Kalevi, Inc.
- Sofware Engineering
-