landrix / The-Drag-and-Drop-Component-Suite-for-Delphi

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Please make the installation instructions a little more helpful #75

Open gwideman opened 9 months ago

gwideman commented 9 months ago

The current installation instructions say:

  1. In the Packages folder, find the design time package that matches your version of Delphi. Open it in Delphi, Compile and Install.
  2. Locate the Library sub-folder that matches your version of Delphi. Add it to the Delphi library search path.

This is basically incorrect, or at least misleadingly vague.

Step 3: Do NOT literally find "the" dpk file that matches your version of Delphi. Instead find the groupproj file, and open that. Build that groupproj, and then use the Install function on the right-click menu of the subsidiary bpl file.

Step 4: There are no subfolders in the Library folder, it's empty, except for a readme.txt file that says there's supposed to be something in there. Instead you can add the Source directory to the Tools > Options > Language > Delphi > Library > [select platform] > Library path. This will at least allow Delphi to find the source and compile it for the version you're using.

However, I'm pretty sure that step 4 is a problem when using more than one platform or Delphi version, and that there are really supposed to be separate compiled units in the Library folder, from which you choose to add one to the Libraries path.