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I have two problems in installing Tee Chart 7 with Borland Enterprise 7:

1. The help menus are all garbled up. I went looking for help files or owners manuals. I found the Tchart7Guide help file in the steema directory and thought this would be a good place to start. So I open it up. On the default page, I click on the link that should explain the TChart component. Alas, I receive the following error message:

“Cannot find the TeeChart 6 help file. Do you want to try to find it yourself?”

Note: I am using Tee Chart 7 but it is looking for Tee Chart 6 files.

The same problem occurs if I access the help from the Delphi help files. Tee chart shows up there. But when I go into component reference and click the same link, same problem.

This happens for most of the links in the help files.

2. I have now duplicated the following problem on two different machines. I installed tee chart over Delphi 7 with the default installation. Every time I try to load Delphi, both machines give me the following error.

“The application has failed to start because dcltee77.bpl was not found.”

I continue anyway and then get the following error message:

“Can’t load package dcldss70.bpl. Module cannot be found.”

3. Finally, is there any documentation of the methods and properties of each class with examples of how to call them from code? Something like the nice pdf file that systools distributes with their software?

Hi ModelBreaker,

Please find below the answers to your questions:

1. Did you install using the binary installer or the source code installer? Documentation and examples are only included with the binary installers. If you installed using the source code installer please download the binary installer from our Customer Download Area TeeChart and run it. Using the binary installer you'll have a "Docs" folder with all the documentation and tutorials.

2. First error means that Delphi 7 couldn't find TeeChart. You should check that TeeChart "Bin" and "Lib" folders are on top of Delphi's search path list at Project > Options > Directories/Conditionals > Search Path.

The second error means that Delphi couldn't find Borland Decision Cube packages. You should check that this package path is also included in the search path list. Reinstalling TeeChart may solve that problem as it recompiles those packages to be compatible with TeeChart.

3. Yes, using the binary installer you'll find the "Docs" folder at C:\Program Files\Steema Software\TeeChart 706 for Delphi 7\Docs (default english installation path).

At TeeChart7Guide.hlp you'll find TeeChart Pro v7 Component Library section which includes a definition for all TeeChart classes. For TeeChart examples please have a look at the new features demo available at TeeChart's program group (only with the binary installation).

I wanted to document how the problem got solved for other users as it was a little different than what you suggested and had one further question .

1. I apparently had an older demo version of Tee Chart 6 installed. Apparently, it was messing up the links in the help file as the version 7 help menus kept looking for version 6 help and couldn't find them. So I uninstalled Tee Chart and reinstalled version 7.06 using the binary install. That fixed the problem with the Help menus. What I had not done previously is uninstall the old demo version.

2. To fix the error messages on loading Delphi, I set the environment, library and search path to include the Tee Chart Bin and Lib directories.

Narcis, do you anticipate any problems with my having set the environment paths rather than the project specific paths?

Hi ModelBreaker,

Narcis, do you anticipate any problems with my having set the environment paths rather than the project specific paths?

No, but as you also said, you included TeeChart "Bin" and "Lib" directories to the search path list. You should include them on top of that list and check the left-top "Default" checkbox so that this is applied to all projects.