Do you know any good TLB editor (even commercial) that can be used instead of the one which comes with Delphi? It gives headaches in a lot of situations (big TLB, rename an entry ... etc.)
Thanks!
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The TLB editor from Delphi really sucked, but it got a major overhaul in Delphi 2009.
If updating to a newer version is an option, you can try to migrate to Delphi 2010 and see, if that solves your problems.
DR
2010-02-11 14:53:02
Delphi 2010 is fabulous. Unfortunately above, someone reports that the RIDL editor still has some bugs, even in Delphi 2010.
Warren P
2010-02-11 22:01:40
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As I already mentioned in this question the Type Library support is really really buggy, especially in Delphi 2005 - 2007.
In Delphi 2009 and 2010 it got better, although there are still many bugs (try to rename a class). BUT since Delphi 2009 the editor uses the RIDL text format instead of a binary format and so you can (and often have to) manually edit the TLB when the editor did something stupid.
To answer your question: No, it doesn't make sense to replace the editor, because you would loose all the automatic RIDL to Delphi code conversions.
ulrichb
2010-02-11 15:14:18
Is there a Quality Central report for the Rename a Class in the RIDL Editor problems?
Warren P
2010-02-11 22:02:25
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We opted for an IDL -> (midl) -> TLB -> (tlibimp) _TLB.Pas workflow. Manually updating an IDL file is a good bit different from visually editing a TLB file, but as programmers we prefer to type out our interfaces anyway.
This workflow is from the pre-RIDL era, so we might update in the near future.
Paul-Jan
2010-02-11 18:34:45