I have 2 problems happening in my Delphi 3 Standard Edition:

(1) I'm getting a compiler error:

Cannot file file: c:\tics\AHMTIEbutton.pas

The folder c:\tics is where my internet components are located - FTP,
HTTP, POP3, etc.  There is no AHMTIEbutton.pas file - that component
is an enhanced toolbar button that looks like the buttons on IE
Explorer - I purchased just the *.dcu files and not the source code
files - so I have no idea why it wants to look for the .pas file and I
have no idea why it expects to find it in a totally unrelated folder?

I'm in serious trouble because this error is preventing me from making
a successful compile and link of my app.  I uninstalled the last
components I installed which was in the Tics folder, so now the same
error is happening in what is now the last folder in my Lib string:

Cannot file file: c:\tav\AHMTIEbutton.pas

If I remove that from the Lib path, the error just happens on the new
last string.  I'm pretty confused as to why this is happening because
there is no .pas file - I could not afford the .pas files so just
bought the .dcu files.

(2) One other thing I noticed in my main form, when I start my Delphi
3 IDE up I get the error:

Error creating form: Stream read

I think it must be my main form because I can't F12 it to see the form
components - I can only see the source code in it.

I could sure use some idea's of what to try to solve these problems.

Thanks for any help...

Ralph

In article <3c8ac89d.8283438@news-server>, ra...@primemail.com (Ralph Freshour)
writes:

This is (certainly for 1 and most likely for 2) because the component you
purchased was compiled with a different Delphi version than 3 (the one you're
using).

Being a different format for the .dcu file means that Delphi is now trying to
re-compile the .dcu from it's source - and can't find it.

Either buy the component for Delphi 3, or buy the source, or buy the Delphi
version which compiled that component.

Alan Lloyd
alangll...@aol.com

Hi Alan:

No, the strange thing is that I was already using this .dcu component
for quite a while without any problems - it is the enhanced IEButton
from TritonTools - I have been using his Delphi 3 *.dcu components for
a long time, made several version upgrades to my app - then the only
thing I can remember is that I installed 2 new components for another
project and although I had not done a compile on my primary app, when
I went to do it, that's when I discovered the compile problem.

I could buy the source but I fear that would not fix the problem
because Delphi is looking in the wrong folder - c:\tav - for the .pas
file - so even if I *had* the .pas file, it's in c:\tahm folder and
not c:\tav - although I will admit I don't know how delphi looks for
pas files, I mean, maybe if I did have the .pas it would find it
along my lib path as c:\tahm is in the middle of it, and the compile
error always happens in the last folder in the lib path.  Recall I
removed the last two components I installed and their lib paths and
the compile error still happens on the last lib path folder, whatever
it is.

Although I am tearing my hair out trying to resolve this problem, I
would really like to try and fix it without having to resort to
installing the source code - I have not had to do this before so I
fear even if it fixed it, I would never find out what was really
causing it.

Ralph

On 10 Mar 2002 08:17:52 GMT, alangll...@aol.com (AlanGLLoyd) wrote: