Install issue - Advantage Components & Delphi 10.2 Community Edition

[Former Member]

I am trying to install Advantage Delphi Components Release 11.1 for Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) into the Delphi 10.2 Community Edition.

The install did NOT throw an error, however the components do not appear on the tool platte.

Any suggestion where i might start to look?

Thanks,
~LCarroll

[former_member302278]

This took me 20+ hours to get installed. The file AdsAdditionalDesigners.dll must be put in \Windows\System32 or \Windows\SysWOW64 and is not installed by default.

Also put the .BPL files in the Embarcadero BIN folder, so for the new RIO that would be C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\Studio\20.0\bin

Then in the IDE do the "Install Packages" and browse to the BIN folder and install those copies, the .BPL files must be in the Windows PATH or they will not install.

[michael_loop]

Delphi 10.2 (Tokyo) is not yet supported by ADS. When it is, it will only be added to ADS 12 or later.

For now, a fellow member of this community has posted a workaround, although SAP cannot officially support it: https://www.jd-engineering.de/ads-and-delphi-10-2-tokyo/. I am not sure whether the workaround will work for ADS 11.

[jhoehne]

Oh, this even works with ADS 10.1 ...

You have to modify adsdata.pas and ace.pas, as described in https://www.jd-engineering.de/advantage-returning-wrong-value-on-null-in-delphi-tokyo, partly in the comments.