To install these components to your component palette 
register the components with delphi by the next filenames :


Tbedsgn.pas

Make sure you don't chose too long names for the dirs you keep your 
components in. For example keep all your custom components in c:\CComponents
and all Own made components in c:\MyComps

They should compile ok. No reason to fail. If they should not compile
look for your settings. Don't blame the components. I triple checked 
the installation.

All components will install to the HCU Component page.


Then you will be able to open all forms of the IDE.
The code in these files speak for itself. If you need some help 
understanding the pascal code don't hesitate to ask. 

mailto : The_Intorn@hotmail.com





The following should always work: 
1-) Just make a new directory in your main dir of the hard disk
    eg : c:\comps. Don't put it in a directory with a long name.
2-) put the component files in this directory. with pascal components they are : 
 *.pas (pascal source file) : one component can have multiple sourcefiles.
 *.dcr (Delphi Component Resource : includes the bitmap placed on the componentpalette. 

3-) make sure these files can not be found in another directory in
    the search path of BCB. 

4-) Open Components menuitem, then point to install. A dialog will
    popup. Here you'll find the BCB search path. It searches in
    its own lib, bin directories. If you never have installed
    another component, there should be no other paths than those
    of BCB. If you remove one of these, for example \bin, BCB won't
    compile the components. So be careful.

5-) now browse ... and go to the c:\comps dir, or whatever you
    called it. pull down the type menu. change the .cpp
    extension to .pas. select the winsplit.pas file. OK.

6-) See, BCB has included c:\comps to the search path.

7-) when it compiles you can get some warning messages, but no
    errors. Cause everything is fine with the components.
    Now: BCB will create files. 
    *.hpp : header files for the component. C++ -Style
    *.dcu and or *.dof = delphi compiled unit  
    or delphi object file. these files end up in the final exe. 
    So don't delete any of *these* files the compiler created.

8-) now it should say that the library has been built. Click OK 
    and the new components appear on the component palette.

9-) Don't move any of these files to anywhere. esspecially not to
    your lib or bin directory's. it will cause you trouble later.
    you won't know what to look for or where to look.

10) you can uninstall the components by going through
    component->install and then removing the unwanted components
    from the list. Then hit compile/ build. The components will be
    removed. 

   If you don't have any more components in the dir, you can just
   delete the dir from the search path.



The Custom component directory is always added to your applications
Make file. So if you startup an application and it tells you it can't
find the unit header for example : tbeadd.hhp, while this component
is on your component palette check the settings in the options->Project menuitem
Look here at the Dirs/conditionals tab. Check the include path and the lib path
for weird dirnames you don't have on your computer, or dirs BCB shouldn't look in.

Just remove them and replace them with your own custom component dir.


