Designer won't show anymore in delphi IDE

rbuser

Hi,

I was working on a 'big' report (switching from preview to designer mode) in
delphi IDE when a 'priviliged instruction' exception occured. After that
(even after rebooting) the designer won't show anymore when opening a
new/existing report in delphi IDE. Rebooting doesn't help. Some help would
be greatly appreciated?

Greetings,
Filip Moons

rbuser

Fixed. Left/top designerform coordinates in C:\WINNT\RBuilder.ini where
messed up

[Designer Position]
WindowState=0
Left=-32000
Top=-32000

rbuser

Dialog form 'Save changes' sideeffect...
-When i open a form containing a report, open/close the containning report
without changing anything and close the form the
Dialog form 'Save changes' pops up. I tried saving but the same behavior
occurs when reopening form/report and closing report/form without changing
anything, the Dialog form will popup. If i compare the dfm's before/after no
differences are found.
-When i open a form containing a report and close the form the Dialog form
'Save changes' won't pop up.

What's happening???

nicocizik

Hi Filip,

Is this happening at design time or are you using the TppDesigner component
at runtime? Is your SaveAsTemplate property set to True?

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

Hi Nico,

Its happening at design time. It's for both, reports with 'SaveAsTemplate'
False/True have the same behavior

New project with newly dropped report
-New application
-Drop report component <------ (SaveAsTemplate = false)
-Save All
-Close All

Reopen project
-Reopen
-Right Click report component 'Report Designer'
-Close designer
-Close form > Dialog Form 'Save changes'

Greetings,
Filip Moons

nicocizik

Hi Filip,

This is actually the Delphi IDE letting you know that the code in your unit
has changed, which is true. You'll notice that when you simply place a
report on a form, only the TppReport object is declaired, however if you
open the designer, the default bands TppHeaderBand, TppDetailBand, and
TppFooterBand are also created and declaired. This is necessary to be able
to directly reference these objects. Delphi is just making sure you want to
keep those changes.

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

No, it isn't that. EVERY time you open the report and close without changing
and even save, it will ask 'save changes' over and over again the next time.
Something is messed up. My collegue's comp doesn't show the same behavior,
bsides mine didn't either before the trouble this morning.

nicocizik

Hi Filip,

This is not a known issue. If I reload the project, then double click on
the report object to load the designer, then try to close without changing
anything, I do receive a save dialog. This seems to be a Delphi quirk
because the same behavior occurs for instance if I were to place a TeeChart
on the form as well. On my machine, if I save (ctrl-S) before closing, the
save dialog does not appear.

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com