Install Ver. 5.20.28 and XLSSpreadSheet2

[a.menghini]

...I state that I like your components and use them for many years

Today I have download xlsReadWriteII5 and XLSSpreadSheet2 for D7 and DXE5 becouse I have 2 PC ...one with D7 and one with DXE5.

I need to manually compile the source of your component to have .dcu without debug information and put them in my personal folder

...I just want to tell you that every time I have to install your components lose so much time becouse :

1) Every time I find that your installer for D7 creates a folder with SOME different file structure and file and respect for installation dxe5 ..every time I merge the two content to have the same thing...

2) This time ( with version 5.20.28 ) the install directory SRCXLS of xlsReadWriteII5 is ALMOST the same of the install directory of xlsSpreadSheet2
...but some file are different ...why ? ...which are the right one ? ...I must use the content of xlsReadWrite5 or the content of the xlsSpreadSheet ?

3) Which files are part of the xlsreadWriteII5 and which files are part of the xlsSpreadSheet2 ? ...how can generate separate .dpk ?

4) If put all .pas file into new package I have problem with XBookOpengl.pas, XBookGdi3d2.pas, XBookGeometryChart2.pas, XBookGeometry2.pas ...must I manually delete it ? ...can you use directive in .pas for have no problem when recompile your .pas or delete them from the distribution file ?

5) the xlsSpreadSheet don't have the icon into the palette. can you adjust this ? ...I have create one .dcr file ( if you want I can send it to you if you include it in the package ) and every time I need to modify your source code to have the component in the palette with icon sense.

You could not give ( as do all the other ) clean dpk files for each version of Delphi?

I ask myself if I am the only one to have these problems

Thanks

Alberto Menghini

[larsa]

Hello

The intention is that you install the BPL files. If you do so, there are no problems. When we first started with the components, DPK files where included. That caused however a lot of problems because when users tried to install these files the compiler produced a new set of DCU files. And of course, (inexperienced) users hadn't uninstalled the demo/previous version. the result was a lot of error messages. This problem disappeared when there was no DPK files included.

There have been very few questions about the installation since the DPK files where removed.