Please help with DsgnIntf / DesignEditors / IsProxyClass when updating an old component

[Andy Teal]

Hi,

I'm currently upgrading D5 projects to Delphi 2007 (RAD Studio)

One particular unit used to use DsgnIntf.pas in $(DELPHI)\Source\Toolsapi
which I'm presuming is now DesignEditors.pas ?
When I compile that, then I get
[DCC Error] DesignEditors.pas(1047): E2003 Undeclared identifier:
'IsProxyClass'
from inside DesignEditors.pas
I'm not sure if I am going down the right path here by trying to get this to
compile ?
Hope someone can point me in the right direction.

Thanks
Andy

[Jeff Overcash (TeamB)]

Post by Andy Teal
Hi,
I'm currently upgrading D5 projects to Delphi 2007 (RAD Studio)
One particular unit used to use DsgnIntf.pas in $(DELPHI)\Source\Toolsapi
which I'm presuming is now DesignEditors.pas ?
When I compile that, then I get
'IsProxyClass'
from inside DesignEditors.pas
I'm not sure if I am going down the right path here by trying to get this to
compile ?
Hope someone can point me in the right direction.
Thanks
Andy

Make sure your design time code and run time code are not mixed. They need to
be in separate packages. The design time code needs to require the designide
package. You can not use any of the design time code in a run time package (it
was a license violation in D5, but you could still accidentally do it).

http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,27717,00.html

[Nick Hodges (CodeGear)]

Post by Andy Teal
Hope someone can point me in the right direction.

First, thanks for your business and thanks for upgrading.

Second, this article:

http://dn.codegear.com/article/27717

should cover everything you need. Things in this area have changed
between Delphi 5 and now.

[Remy Lebeau (TeamB)]

Post by Andy Teal
One particular unit used to use DsgnIntf.pas in $(DELPHI)\Source\Toolsapi
which I'm presuming is now DesignEditors.pas ?

Yes, amongst several others. DsgnIntf was separated out into several
smaller units.

Post by Andy Teal
When I compile that, then I get
'IsProxyClass'
from inside DesignEditors.pas

IsProxyClass() is in the Proxies unit, which is another design-time unit
that is part of the DesignIde library.


Gambit