Re: Delphi seems to have gone nuts...

From: Raptor (bogus_at_none.com)
Date: 03/18/05

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    Rob Kennedy <me3@privacy.net> wrote in message
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    > Raptor wrote:
    > > This one has me stumped. I'm going along fine when I start getting
    > > odd errors from my code. It's seeing some procedures and functions in
    > > another unit just fine, but not others just adjacent in both the code
    > > and interface declarations.
    > >
    > > It's as if the "old" procedures work fine, but adding anything "new"
    > > makes things bomb. All I can do is drop back to a previous revision
    > > and start adding pieces, as I am unable to find a cause for this
    > > behavior.
    >
    > It seems as though the unit you're editing isn't really being
    > recompiled.

    Yes. As my other posts noted, there seem to somehow be multiple copies at
    work, one I'm editing and one which is being compiled.

    > Make sure the unit either appears in your current project or
    > that its directory is on your project's search path.

    I avoid the use of paths like the plague. I simply clone a new folder for
    each subsequent rev, and ALL of my working source code is in that folder. I
    never, ever, touch the paths lines or try to use code in various places. My
    brief excursions into that were very messy, and persuaded me to use another
    approach.

    > Otherwise, the
    > compiler is always just using the existing DCU file, and any changes you
    > make to the PAS file are simply ignored.

    Gotcha.

    As I mentioned, the strange thing is that when I would get an "undeclared
    identifier" I would do a Find in Files search, and both the modified and
    unmodified files would show the same path. Even though I never mess with
    paths, when two uWhatever files were opened in the editor by the search, the
    paths were the first thing I examined in the results pane.

    I still don't know what's going on. Not the first time.

    R

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