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sam4628@zeus.tamu.edu wrote:
> Hello,
>    I have a program written in BC++ which is behaving strangely (in the
> following discussion, please bear in mind that I am a novice Windows
> programmer: I'm not doing anything fancy, but I could very well be doing
> something _stupid_!).
> 
> This program will only run if the BC++ IDE is running.  This is true
> regardless of where I'm running the program (i.e. I'm trying to run it from
> the file manager, so it shouldn't have any ties to the IDE).  It doesn't
> give any errors, it just doesn't run.
> 
> The program is a simple data conversion program which basically displays
> a single dialog box to obtain file names, does its conversion, and exits.
> 
I'll guess: your dialog box uses controls that are in a Borland DLL and it
isn't on your PATH.  Therefore it cannot be automagically loaded by your
application, but if the IDE is loaded already then so is the DLL.

This still doesn't sound right: you should get a system modal dialog
complaining that it "can't find a file, or one of its components".  However
take it as a working hypothesis that the IDE is loading *some* resource that
your program needs, then try to make the IDE's resources available to your
program, perhaps one by one (copying them to the program's directory?) until
you hit something.

Or go back to basics: remove components from your program until it runs, or
remove all extra stuff and add bits back one by one till you hit the
problem.  Get the search area narrowed down enough and the bug will usually 
be obvious.

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