On Sun, 03 Feb 2013 15:14:45 +0000 Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.laza...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
>[...] > 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. Reading the project simply restores the files last time open. That does not count. Question still open: When was the wrong file opened? > >> 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. See above. > >> 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? When a second is opened it gets the (2), the third gets (3), and so forth. It does not matter which one is the project's one. >[...] > >> 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). The does not matter for the session. > 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. Nice. > 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"/> You can see that the IDE knows that Unit12 belongs to the project, while Unit15 is simply a file on your disk. About "the IDE to open the frame associated with the unit". Which file is "the frame" and which file is "the unit"? Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
