bayford

Having recently upgraded my main system to enable the playing of current high spec games, I am using Paradox 7.0 on the machine which runs Windows XP Home. The database works fine BUT if I try and change the size of a form I get a "General Protection Error" and Paradox closes down. All of the other design controls appear to work fine, (although I can't guarantee I've tried them all). Anybody got any ideas?

Thanks for that - I've tried the compability options, results as follows: NT4 mode - Paradox runs OK, editor problem remains. Win98 mode - Paradox will not start - "Could not initialize BDE: insufficent shared memory available" Win95 mode - as for Win98 Win2000 mode - Paradox runs BUT dialog boxes have anaonymous buttons that don't work! (As an aside if I load the forms into 'Paradox for Windows' [V 4.5] I can change the form sizes OK, so it's not a problem with the forms themselves.)

I am currently using Paradox 7.0 on a sytem running Windows XP home. The only issue I have been able to find so far is that when designing forms, if I try and edit the form properties I get a "General Protection Fault" and Paradox closes down. (Incidentally I also have Paradox for Windows which does not suffer from this problem even in XP!) The Borland installer runs fine in XP even on a large Hard Drive (~300Gb), and with lots of RAM - this is often a problem as lots of installers use limited checking routines (this includes the Paradox for Windows installer which reported that 200Gb wasn't enough space to unzip its temporary files!)