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I re-installed the various patches (1, then 2) to get both instances to be at the same build # and Patch level. Both appear to be identical as far as I can tell, but it fixed the loading of the CS design packages only in the case of one of them.
As a practical matter it seems all I’m losing are the components on the Palette, and in fact I am still able manually to create the instances of the classes required to get the tutorials working. I would like to understand what might be different between the two installations, but I’m not going to fret it now. Any suggestions for getting the design time components to work in the 2nd installation appreciated. Both report the following build/patch level information in their About box:
Embarcadero® RAD Studio 12 Version 29.0.53982.0329
Delphi 12 and C++ Builder 12 Update 2
RAD Studio 12.2 Patch 2
Build versions of Windows 11 are slightly different but I doubt that’s the problem. The reinstallation process on both machines was not the same – in the first one I had to uninstall patch 1 and then reinstall it, which effectively reinstalled the product, then install patch 2 via GetIt. When I went into GetIt in the 2nd installation to uninstall patch 1 I saw it said Patch 2 was already installed, so I reinstalled it. I was not expecting this and seem to recall both being at the earlier Patch 1 build number which was incompatible with installing Patch 2. So – I don’t know why it behaved that way. I expected to uninstall Patch 1 in the 2nd instance, not Patch 2.
Summary: Installation 1 and 2 are at the same build/patch level now, but the 2nd installation still has a problem with the design time BPls. It doesn’t seem really to matter as I can still programmatically use CS5, since all I lose are the drag-drop components–the runtime components are installed and work in both IDEs as far as I can tell.
Also, trying to manually add them after removing them via “Install Components…” throws the same “cannot find the specified module” error when I navigate right to the BPLs. So, I’m starting to think they got corrupt somehow? But on both installations?
