Delphi 2006/VPE 3.6 curiousity

[Bengt]

I have used VPE 3.2 with Delphi 7 and Delphi 2006 for years and that has worked very well. Now I needed to write PDF files from an application so I installed VPE 3.6 which I before only used in DafaFlex applications.

When compiling my Delphi projects, I then got errors like

[Pascal Error] E2161 RLINK32: Unsupported 16bit resource in file "PlUtMeny.dfm"

for all units where VPE was used. Dfm-files can either be stored as text filers or as binary files. It turned out that if I stored the dfm files in binary format, the error disappearted and the projects compiled.

Very curious and it took me some hours to find that out.

Bengt

[IDEAL Software Support]

The VPE VCL component for Delphi / C++ Builder does not contain any code which deals with serialization, this is handled by base classes of the VCL (Borland Visual Component Library).