CODEWITHSUNDEEP
delphidelphi-10-seattle
user3777681
user3777681

Reputation:

Restore Delphi environmental paths

In Delphi 10 Seattle, I clicked the "Delete invalid paths" button in Options->Library->LibraryPath and it messed with some of the default environmental paths. Is there a way to restore the default settings?

For example:

$(BDSLIB)\$(Platform)\
$(BDSCOMMONDIR)\Dcp\$(Platform)

(these are invalid)

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1989

Answers (2)

Zam
Zam

Reputation: 2940

There are default and build in way for restore your settings. This way available for many years (more than 15)

run Delphi with command line parameters -rXXX

bds.exe -rXXX. What will happen:

The name you provide after -r is a registry hive. If that registry hive does not exist, the IDE create a brand new registry hive with all the defaults and uses it. Because this takes you back to all the default settings, it fixes most start up problems with the IDE. Note that because custom controls are not part of the defaults, this technique will result in your IDE not having any custom controls you have installed previously. Custom controls are the most common cause of this error, so you will probably want to add any you have one at a time and test.

Your new registry hive will be stored in the registry at HKCU\Software\Embarcadero\name\version. Your current settings for the IDE are stored at HKCU\Software\Embarcadero\BDS\version. You can compare the two registry hives using regedit to see what is different.

you could restore your Library/Browsing path from new environment, by copy them from XXX environment and paste it to regular one.

Read more at http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Berlin/en/IDE_Command_Line_Switches_and_Options and on http://support.embarcadero.com/es/article/42597

Upvotes: 3

Ken White
Ken White

Reputation: 125747

There's no way to restore them short of a reinstall. However, here are the ones I have in my Seattle installation (which should be pretty vanilla, since it's a fairly fresh install on a new laptop and I've been using Berlin). I'll put it in two formats - a direct copy/paste version and a list of individual items, so you can use either easily.

Single line copy/paste:

$(BDSLIB)\$(Platform)\release;$(BDSUSERDIR)\Imports;$(BDS)\Imports;$(BDSCOMMONDIR)\Dcp\$(Platform);$(BDS)\include;

Individual entries:

$(BDSLIB)\$(Platform)\release;
$(BDSUSERDIR)\Imports;
$(BDS)\Imports;
$(BDSCOMMONDIR)\Dcp\$(Platform);
$(BDS)\include;

Upvotes: 2

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