Mattias Gaertner wrote:
On Sun, 03 Feb 2013 13:13:21 +0000
Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
Mattias Gaertner wrote:
but I now have two tabbed panes in my source editor: "DbConfigCode2" and
"DbConfigCode2(2)" with the latter focussed.
And that's where you loose me.
Why should /usr/local/src/inifiles/trunk/dbconfigcode2.pas be open in
the editor? From the project's point of view it is an unrelated file.
You tell me! But the IDE opens a new tab/pane, and that's the whole
point I'm trying to make!
Sorry.
The IDE does not resolve symlinks in paths. That means if the IDE
opens a wrong file, then it does so, even if the two directories were
copies instead of symlinks. Your talk about a problem with symlinks
mislead me.
Don't worry, it was some while before I started focusing on what the
real problem was.
To add context for the error message, the error I've forced in looks like
-----8<-----
type TDbConfigInit= procedure(confFrame: TDbConfigFrame; init:
boolean= true);
TDbConfigRead= function(confFrame: TDbConfigFrame; mr:
TModalResult): boolean;
ty pe // Line 22
{ TDbConfigFrame }
TDbConfigFrame = class(TFrame)
----->8-----
So, let's forget the symlinks and find out why the IDE opens the wrong
file.
Please confirm:
The messages window shows an error on the file
/usr/local/src/heavywethers/inifiles/trunk/dbconfigcode2.pas
/usr/local/src/heavywethers/inifiles/trunk/dbconfigcode2.pas(22,4)
Fatal: Syntax error, "=" expected but "identifier PE" found
but the source editor opens the file
/usr/local/src/inifiles/trunk/dbconfigcode2.pas
Right?
I think so, or at the very least it opens a new tab/pane so that I've
now got tabs labeled "DbConfigCode2" and "DbConfigCode2(2)".
"Information about the IDE" tells me
Project.SomethingModified Session
Project units:
./../inifiles/trunk/dbconfigcode2.pas SessionModified
Is this "../../" or really "./../" ?
I'm pretty sure that was ../../ but the cut or paste operation was
trimming it. However I think we've got a Heisenbug here: "Information
about the IDE" -> Modified is now displaying
SourceEditorManager.SomethingModified
Source Editor:
/usr/local/src/heavywethers/inifiles/trunk/dbconfigcode2.pas
Component=True
and the IDE now doesn't open a duplicate tab/pane when the compiler
complains about the error. I think what's happened is that my action of
restarting the IDE with the file closed has sorted things out. In other
words this lot is still approximately valid...
Project units:
./../inifiles/trunk/dbconfigcode.pas SessionModified
which based on the project directory being
/usr/local/src/heavywethers/trunk implies
/usr/local/src/inifiles/trunk/dbconfigcode2.pas (I'm trying to be
cautious jumping to conclusions here).
see above.
Source -> Unit Information -> General on the new DbConfigCode2(2) tab
tells me /usr/local/src/heavywethers/inifiles/trunk/dbconfigcode2.pas
[manual transcript] which is what the file should be.
ok
... Unit paths
refers to /usr/local/src/heavywethers/inifiles/trunk which is OK. Source
paths ditto.
ok
But Source -> Unit Information -> General on the original DbConfigCode2
tab tells me it's /usr/local/src/inifiles/trunk/dbconfigcode2.pas which
is wrong.
What is this "original"? When is it opened?
In my former mails I assumed you had opened it yourself.
dbconfigcode2 is the name on the tab created when the IDE (at startup)
read the project. I was assuming that dbconfigcode2(2) was the one that
the IDE created when the compiler reported the error, but looking at the
file paths I'm not entirely sure.
I need to be very cautious about jumping to any conclusions over this
(having already been wrong once), but it looks as though the compiler is
getting and reporting the right path
Compiling /usr/local/src/heavywethers/inifiles/trunk/dbconfigcode2.pas
yes.
but the IDE at some earlier stage has resolved it to
/usr/local/src/inifiles/trunk/dbconfigcode2.pas which it shouldn't.
What is this "some earlier stage"?
When the IDE was opening the project.
That
actually fits my experience that given that sort of duplicate tab it's
safer to close the older one.
If I close the older tab/pane, save-all and terminate then restart, the
one tab that's displayed relating to that file has the correct name
/usr/local/src/heavywethers/inifiles/trunk/dbconfigcode2.pas.
..up to this point where I've just done something that makes the
problem go away.
All tabs are named uniquely. If you open two units with the same name
one will get the "(2)" appended. The "(2)" vanishes when the name
becomes unique again.
Yes, but which tab gets the suffix: the one that already exists or the
newly-created duplicate?
I think it's worth noting that since I updated this copy of the IDE etc.
to trunk (i.e. rather than it being a couple of weeks old) I'm seeing
additional startup warnings
FindMissingClass DbConfigFrame1:TDbConfigFrame IsInherited=False
TLazSourceFileManager.LoadLFM loading nested class TDbConfigFrame needed
by /usr/local/src/inifiles/trunk/dbconfigcode.pas
It simply means: This form is opened and needs some frame of another
unit.
However I think that's something to do with the non-working OnClick
which I'll get back to presently, this business with tab/pane
duplication is at least a few weeks old.
So it looks as though it's something to do with the saved state of the
project, i.e. which files are listed as to be opened when the project is
loaded. The file giving the problem had been open (across multiple
sessions of the IDE) ever since the unit and associated frame was
created and saved, I can't remember exactly how I did the save (i.e.
whether it was an explicit save-all or an implicit save when the
compiler was run or the IDE shut down).
If the compilation is run and finds an error where the file isn't
already open, the file is opened with the correct path and there are no
further problems.
Drat- it's just started happening again. The thing that appears to have
made the difference was telling the IDE to open the frame associated
with the unit, I can now see both forms of the path/name stored in the
.lps file:
<Unit12>
<Filename Value="../../inifiles/trunk/dbconfigcode2.pas"/>
<IsPartOfProject Value="True"/>
<ComponentName Value="DbConfigFrame"/>
..
<Unit15>
<Filename Value="../inifiles/trunk/dbconfigcode2.pas"/>
<ComponentName Value="DbConfigFrame"/>
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