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hi all
i'm a newby in lazaraus
i've installed zeos but can't find palette

using graphic package i can see that all 5 packages are installed and marked as "install next startup" (message translated from italian lazarus gui)

i restart lazarus (many times) but zeos palette never appera

looked in similar tread but startlazarus don't work...

someone can help me?

thanks

Did you rebuild Lazarus?

Mark

yes, i've compiled and installed the main package zcomponent.lpk
after that i've confirmed an automatic lazarus rebuild but, i've observerd, lazarus.exe, in the installation folder, is not changed (date = 2007)

however, cause vista is very young... i'll reinstall under (another pc) win xp

ok reinstalled under win xp: all gone


during package compilation in unit ZAbstractRODataset i've found an error at line: 2975

as downloaded:

BaseFieldTypes: array[TFieldType] of TFieldType = (
ftUnknown, ftString, ftInteger, ftInteger, ftInteger, ftBoolean, ftFloat,
ftFloat, ftBCD, ftDateTime, ftDateTime, ftDateTime, ftBytes, ftVarBytes,
ftInteger, ftBlob, ftBlob, ftBlob, ftBlob, ftBlob, ftBlob, ftBlob, ftUnknown,
ftString, ftString, ftLargeInt, ftADT, ftArray, ftReference, ftDataSet,
ftBlob, ftBlob, ftVariant, ftInterface, ftInterface, ftString, ftTimeStamp,
ftFMTBcd);

modified as (see last line, added ", ftFixedWideChar, ftWideMemo")

BaseFieldTypes: array[TFieldType] of TFieldType = (
ftUnknown, ftString, ftInteger, ftInteger, ftInteger, ftBoolean, ftFloat,
ftFloat, ftBCD, ftDateTime, ftDateTime, ftDateTime, ftBytes, ftVarBytes,
ftInteger, ftBlob, ftBlob, ftBlob, ftBlob, ftBlob, ftBlob, ftBlob, ftUnknown,
ftString, ftString, ftLargeInt, ftADT, ftArray, ftReference, ftDataSet,
ftBlob, ftBlob, ftVariant, ftInterface, ftInterface, ftString, ftTimeStamp,
ftFMTBcd, ftFixedWideChar, ftWideMemo);

compiled, installed, lazarus rebuilded and all is ok...

vista... mmmhhhhh

just to have an idea:
folder "C:\Program Files" in italy (under vista) is called "C:\Programmi". everytime i save a modified txt file in a folder like "C:\Programmi\a-folder\readme.txt" i receive an error message like:
unable to save file in "C:\Program Files\a-folder\readme.txt" (!?!?!?!)

thus i
1) move the file on the desktop
2) edit the file
3) move again to original folder...

this week i'll remove lazarus and zeos installazion from "C:\Programmi\lazarus" and reinstall in "C:\lazarus"...
if this works... i'll cry

forgive my english but, you know, in italy...

bye
markbass72

What Zeoslib version are you using? This patch should be active since long...

You can switch off this Vista behaviour : Configuration -> User Accounts -> Turn off User Account Management. (Sorry, this is a translation from dutch, so not exactly the right words, I'm afraid) Use at own risk however. My experience with Vista : Install the stuff you want to play with outside 'Program Files' directory.

Mark

ZEOSDBO-6.6.0-beta

surely i'll try this and let you know

thanks for all

markbass72

Use 6.6.2. Quite some bugs have been fixed since 6.6.0.

ok, used 6.6.2

disinstalled lazarus (to test out of "C:\Program Files") and zeos 6.6.0 previous installed

reinstalled lazarus on c:\lazarus, compiled lpk (no compilation error with 6.6.2), installed, recompiled lazarus and, this time, i can see the zeos palette

well, "C:\Program Files" is surely not a good place to install "program files" on vista...

thanks

markbass72