Delphi 7 & Accpac XAPI 1

[AlexJhb]

Want to use the Accpac External API to access Accpac tables and views like in VB. When I try to compile the sample Delphi code I get these two errors.

[Error] A4WCOM.PAS(1): Unit identifier 'ACCPACXAPILib_TLB' does not match file name.
[Fatal Error] BANK_DEL.PAS(7): Could not compile used unit 'A4WCOM.PAS'

There is no 'ACCPACXAPILib_TLB' file around.

I am new to Delphi 7 (in fact to programming) and like Delphi. I would like to stay with it and not move to VB as I am adapting this app to the Windows version of Accpac and because of time do not want to re-write it in VB.

 

[buho]

What the compiler is saying is that you have a file named A4WCOM.PAS but the unit declared in it is ACCPACXAPILib_TLB.

Open the file A4WCOM.PAS, in the first line (1) of it you'll see: unit ACCPACXAPILib_TLB;

change it to: unit A4WCOM;

Note: if the units are bad named I'll not trust the whole packet too much.

buho (A).

 

[AlexJhb]

Thanks buho. That worked and it now compiles and runs.

 

[qqriq]

Is there a manual about what is necessary and enough to prepare 'Borland C++ 6 Enterprise' to make programs that could access to ACCPAC 4.2A (ACCPAC XAPI), or if anybody ready to give me the instructions about technology and files needed? Thanks in advance.