Question and Answer Database FAQ1680D.txt Component Palette Corruption Problems Category :Install Issues Platform :All Product :Delphi 3.x Question: I installed Delphi 3 successfully; no errors occurred. Delphi 3 starts up OK, but the component palette display is corrupted: part of one icon appears on part of the next; images are "drifting" off the buttons; the wrong images on buttons, etc. Restarting the computer does not help. What's going on? (Note: Similar cases have been reported from Delphi 2. Same workarounds/solutions may also apply to Delphi 2.) Answer: USERHTML The problem is most likely a compatibility conflict with the video driver. Borland tests its products against generic S3 drivers provided by Microsoft or S3 Inc. Any drivers compliant with this standard should not cause this problem with Delphi 3. Video drivers that do not fully comply with this standard may or may not function correctly with Delphi 3. Refer to Part I and Part II if you using any of the following high performance video card types with Delphi 3: Matrox Millennium, Diamond Viper, Neo Magic or a "Non-Standard Souped-up S3 Card". Otherwise, refer to Part II.Part I. It has been reported that certain workstation configurations that include the above high performance video cards, using their default high performance video drivers, may cause the Delphi 3 component palette to appear corrupted. Borland and cooperative video card vendors are currently investigating these reports. See Part II if the following workarounds or solutions are not successful:
Matrox Millennium:
Borland and Matrox are investigating the issue, but neither have been able to reproduce the problem using the Matrox Millennium video card. Possible workarounds that customers have reported are:
Neo Magic:
For The Neo Magic 128XD video card, a reported workaround is to
change the video mode to 16-bit or 24-bit color.
(Contact Neo Magic for support on this workaround.)
"Non-Standard Souped-up S3 Cards":
A "Non-Standard Souped-up S3 Card" is a video card built around the
S3 chip which is running drivers to which the vendor has added
performance tricks above and beyond the generic S3 drivers. S3
chips are used in several different video cards from different
vendors (STB, Orchid, Number9, Diamond, etc.). Please contact
your specific video card vendor about getting a compatible generic
S3-compliant video driver. Also see Part II directly below.
Part II.
Try running Delphi 3 under Safe Mode in Windows 95 or VGA Mode
under Windows NT. This loads only standard-generic video drivers
which are compliant with the standard S3 drivers provided by
Microsoft or S3 Inc.
If this fixes the display of the component palette, then the problem is most likely a compatibility conflict with the video driver. You should get an updated version of your video driver from your video card vendor or switch your default driver to a generic compatible driver from Microsoft or S3 Inc. (which may be available on your Windows 95 or Windows NT CD-ROM).
As of this writing, the above workarounds are the only ones known to Inprise. Since Inprise and the related video card vendors have been unable to reproduce this issue, these work- arounds have been provided by Inprise users, and have not been directly tested by Inprise. If none of these workarounds solves your problem, then please post a detailed message to the INPRISE Newsgroups forum borland.public.install.delphi and/or contact your video card vendor. 7/16/98 4:31:28 PM
Last Modified: 01-SEP-99