We I have told everyone about Delphi in the organisation, and one of my collegues
made jump to Delphi from Fortran at last. Unfortunately, he got D5 and between
us we have struggled somewhat. In frustration, got the patch loaded but no
appreciable difference...
First there is the unit that will not die - start brand new project but the moment you
do a build with something from RX lib (which has unit called STRUTILS), it
suddenly creates strutils.dcu in a subdir where there used to have a unit with the
same name and then it get confused. Solution. Explicitly add RX strutils to the
project. The RX lib Strutils.pas is the only strutils around on the drives accessible
to the machine now.
Then there is the IDE playing up. When its bad we get the following problems.
1/ Where you d/click in the error window, it doesnt jump to window/line with the error
2/ It doesnt recognise unit has been edited unless you do explicit save on the unit.
3/ When debugging, the step function doesnt navigate a cursor through the source
after the first unit. (but the correct unit is displayed).
As suddenly as problems arise, they disappear. I think when you get a clean compile
and run of the code, the IDE suddenly comes right - till next time.
Any ideas at all? Anyone else seen similar? The machine with the problem is runnning
NT 4 SP4.
All I can say, is thank goodness I stuck with D3.
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