BCB5 TeeChart Install Problem - Conflict with ActiveX Demo?

[James J. Gold]

(I just posted this as a response to another Install Problem. I then re-thought it and decided to post it as a more-specific standalone topic. If this is an error, I am sorry.)

Installation of TeeChart 7 Components (and TeeChart 7 for QuickReport Components) failed.

I went into BCB5's Packages installation function (Project/Options/Packages or Component/Install Packages) and found the TeeChart 7 Components and TeeChart 7 for QuickReport Components boxes unchecked.

Checking either box produced the error message: Cannot load pachage 'TEE7C5.' It contains unit 'Teeconst,';which is also contained in package 'TEE50'

I looked at all of the program file paths for installed packages and I didn't find Tee50.bpl. I didn't really expect to, since this is the first time I purchased TeeChart and had never installed a prior version.

I looked for the file Tee50.bpl and found Tee50.bpi in the ...\CBuilder5\Lib\... subdirectory, and looked into it and found lots of "TeeConst" references. From this I conclude that the Tee50.bpi was compiled into another .bpl file.

My guess is that the demo version of TeeChart which comes with BCB5 on the ActiveX tab as TVtChart is the source of the conflict.

There are three other components on the ActiveX tab. Since I have not used them either in the five years or so since I bought BCB5, I probably would sacrifice them to install TeeChart 7. One way of restating my problem is that I do not even know what package to uninstall in order to kill them all off.

On the other hand, I would really like to install TeeChart 7 and only lose the TVtChart demo component from the ActiveX tab. At some point in the future I may want to look at one of the other ActiveX samples.

How do I install TeeChart 7?

How do I uninstall the TVtChart demo component?

I suggest that the manual installation instructions need to be supplemented to deal with this problem and that in the FAQs this should be discussed in a straightforward manner if the installation program cannot be made to do this automatically. If this happens to everyone with the ActiveX tab's samples installed, and so many programmers are happy using TeeChart, there must be some easy way to fix this.

Thanks in advance,

-- Jim Gold --
jim@goha.com

[Narcís]

Hi Jim,

please see my replies to your messages at the thread you replied to.