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Marc Vanzegbroeck wrote:What's your Windows-version?

XP

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Enrico,

It is abandoned and a more recent version 5.5.5 was freely delivered by Borland.

Or you may please indicate a link were to download it. It will be very usefull despite Borland abandoned that tool but we still use it.

Thank you.

elvira wrote:Or you may please indicate a link were to download it.

Sorry, I don't know.

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Do not bother to try to get 5.02 if you want to use it on Windows7 64Bit.

I have try to install it on Win7 32bit, Win7 64bit and XP.

It only work on XP. On Windows 7, I can't edit the dialogs, and that is precisely the reasoning why I want to us it

Marc Vanzegbroeck wrote:Do not bother to try to get 5.02 if you want to use it on Windows7 64Bit.

I have try to install it on Win7 32bit, Win7 64bit and XP.

It only work on XP. On Windows 7, I can't edit the dialogs, and that is precisely the reasoning why I want to us it

It seems to work if you run it on Win7-32 & Win7-64 it with Compatibilitymodus WindowsXP

I still have some problems when it sows the dialog. The get's are not show, only if you select them...
Maybe it's a setting I still have to find...

Mr. Enrico,

I found at last Borland C++ Builder 5.02 Professional but the Workshop delivered in it is 4.5 in 16 bits, not 32.

Do you have a newer Workshop?. Where did you find it?.

Thank you.

The resource editor is built in the Borland 5.02 32 bit compiler. It's not a separate application. Sorry, I don't remember where I got it from.

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Mr. Enrico,

This is the Borland cd: http://ul.to/kxg41e3j


Workshop is 4.5.

Please, can you post a screenshot?.

Thank you.

Please install the compiler (not the external resource workshop) run it and try to open a RES file.

EMG

I know this is old, so sorry for the bump, just wanted to comment regards 5.02 compatibility as google brought me here regards RWDESIGN.DLL, and it's hard to find resources about it so I figure I will elaborate for others in this situation.

I've had a few problems getting BCW 5.02 working in retail Windows 10 Pro x64, but it *does* work.

Part of the problem was getting the BDE to work - it hung on install. I reinstalled it to x86 using another tool and mucked with IDAPI32.CFG and disabled VirtualStore (HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\EnableVirtualization) - one of those things worked.

'Failed to load RWDESIGN.DLL' was a relatively simple fix. Just open an elevated (admin) CMD prompt, navigate to %BC5ROOT%\BIN (i.e. C:\BC5\BIN), run BCW.EXE, and try and modify a dialog. After that you should be ok, (you don't need to run as administrator every time).

Codeguard seems to work fine too.

One last comment, MouseWheel by Matt Pietrek really helps make BCW usable:

https://www.microsoft.com/msj/0697/hood0697.aspx (download the Hood0697 exe underneath the heading - don't worry it's just a self-unzipper, plus is on Microsoft's own site, there is a MW.EXE and MouseWheel.DLL file in there).

thanks for your feedback

To All

Good to know that all you have to do is 'run as administrator' .. I tried this version years ago and I noticed the editor had problems resolving certain controls .. so I kinda gave up on Borland. I kept the folders from the install and could not get BCW.exe to run with the .dll error.

I went back in and ran BCW.exe as administrator ( on win10 64 bit ) and was able to get the editor to run .. unfortunately, I saw the same problems with the editor not resolving several static text controls on the form

Rick Lipkin