On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Reinier Olislagers <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9-7-2012 10:00, Ludo Brands wrote: >> >>> Currently the db lookup controls tries to open the dataset linked to >>> ListSource if is closed at lookup initialization. >>> >> >> You probably guessed it but I'm voting for removing this feature. Opening of >> datasets and establishing database connections behind the back of the >> programmer is always a bad idea. >> >> The try open when loaded (streamed), even in the fixed version, has also the >> nasty side effect of not being deterministic. A programmer can't easily >> influence the loading order of components and a change in the order will >> change the behavior of the program. The fix in 22337 solves the exception >> but not the unpredictable behavior. If the link dataset and connection are >> loaded before the dblookup it will open the dataset, else it won't. So your >> program can start up with (some) dblookups pre-loaded or not. >> >> We shouldn't support users counting on unpredictable behavior. >> > Totally agreed.
+1 Marcos Douglas -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
