On 2013-11-26 09:18, brian wrote:
On 11/25/2013 06:26 PM, brian wrote:
Hi folks,
Something has spontaneously gone wrong with the IDE on my setup. I say
spontaneously because I was in the middle of debugging a program when
suddenly everything but the source window disappeared. I eventually
had to abort Lazarus and re-start the program, but now I see some very
strange behaviour :-
1) Pull-down menus stay pulled down, even when I've selected an entry.
2) Only the object inspector or the source editor can be visible at
any one time - select one, and the other vanishes.
There are probably a few other quirks too, but those are the most
annoying two.
In my Delphi days, there used to be a desktop configuration file which
you deleted if the IDE got all screwed up, and then when you ran the
program again you were back to all the defaults.
Is there such a file for Lazarus? I assume this isn't a
version-specific question, but anyway, I'm running Lazarus under
64-bit Debian multi-home, and the version is the latest as downloaded
by fpcup_linux_x64 two days ago, SVN revision 43478.
Well, not surprisingly, the nuclear option worked. Rename .lazarus and
my development directory, copy the .ini files and fpcup_linux_x64 into
a new directory, and rebuild the whole thing. Bit of a nuisance having
to set all my preferences again, but nothing like as bad as trying to
debug with the previous setup.
If anyone can figure out what happened, I for one would still be
interested to hear it.
I am not sure if it is related, but my Lazarus can at times also crash
horribly and leave me with a corrupter GUI.
I have traced my problems down to the package AnchorDockingDesign -
which I really like using. It usually messes up the
.lazarus/anchordocklayout.xml file if Lazarus crashed for some odd reason.
All i need to do to make the GUI work again is deleting the file, and
the setup the whole anchordocking designer again.
Perhaps that is of some use to you ;)
Regards,
Torsten.
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