Re: Crystal 8 VCL in Delphi 2005

Tanya wrote:

Has anyone successfully converted Crystal 8 VCL to work in D2005? Any
hints on what needs to be done?

It's really rather simple. If you have the Crystal 8 VCL working in Delphi 7, that is. If you have an early version of the Crystal 8 VCL, there are more significant changes due to design time support being dramatically altered in the Delphi 6 timeframe.

At some point in the .inc file, IIRC, there's a point where the IFDEF checking occurs, and one of the sections says:

{$IFDEF VER140} // Delphi 6 is version 14.0
  {$DEFINE DELPHI6}
....
{$ENDIF}

If you simply replace VER140 with CONDITIONALEXPRESSIONS, your packages will compile in every version of Delphi Win32 - Delphi 6, 7, 2005, 2006.

ConditionalExpressions was introduced with Delphi 6, and the underlying VCL hasn't changed (other than the design time stuff I mentioned) enough to conditionally compile anything since.

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