Thanks Steve for your comments. I'm using the 16bit Dlls from CR ver
5.0.1.108. CR help replied within an hour to a request made at their WWW
site with several things to try. Particularly doing a comparison of DLLs
loaded on a PC when the reports run OK and on an NTWS4 box where the
repoarts all fail. The tool to use for this is their DSX.EXE (16bit).
The most likely cause is a missing DLL, I think. Would you agree?
At worst I could strip all the reports out into a D4 program, even if that
meant installing two BDEs on a server.
RB
At 23:15 10/03/99 +1300, you wrote:
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Belding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Wednesday, March 10, 1999 5:26 PM
>Subject: [DUG]: Delphi and Crystal on NT4
>
>
>>Hello team
>>
>>Anyone using Delphi with Crystal Reports on NT4?
>>
>
>32 bit Works well. If you have 16 bit tools Seagate Software will not help
>you if you are a Delphi developer either. You will likely have little joy
>with versions prior to 5.x.108 and anything other than 32 bit Delphi. The
>Seagate developed VCL wrapper around crpe32.dll for v5, 6 or 7 is more
>powerful than the COM/VB equivalents.
>
>>With NT 4 (sp?) the reports won't run and I get an error "cannot open
>>database" from the Crystal DLL.
>
>You will have to specify the database type, database version,
>Crystal Reports type, version, platform and the method you are using to
>interface with the Crystal Reports Print Engine DLL i.e OCX, CRPExx.dll
>imports, VCL (D2,3,4, CB1,3 with source) or the Automation Server, as well
>as the version of the BDE, ODBC, ADO, or native connection you are trying to
>hook up to Crystal Reports.
>
>Sounds like a configuration issue."Unable To Open Database File" is an OCX
>error which implies a Database verify may be required or the pathname is too
>long esp wih Access, or maybe some UNC pathing problems. If you are using an
>ActiveX bridge to Crystal Reports then there are a host of OS and Microsft
>DLL redistributables to factor in.
>
>>
>>Any insight would be hugely welcome.
>>
>
>
>ftp.img.seagatesoftware.com/pub/crystal and /pub/seagate_crystal_reports is
>full of software samples, fixes, extensions etc. Http access gives you some
>of this: http://www.img.seagatesoftware.com/crystalreports/techsupp/ You
>may find benefit by consulting the newsgroups hosted at www.cogniza.com or
>the alternative Crystal Report VCL at www.suprasoft.com or end user info @
>www.crystaluser.com
>
>ftp://ftp.img.seagatesoftware.com/pub/seagate_crystal_reports/delphi/crvclap
>p.exe
>is a handy test tool written in Delphi with source.
>
>Cheers,
>Steve Cooney
>Pacific Windows
>
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