Refactor menu grayed out for Rename...

[Mr. Daniel 0]

Dear all, I am struggling with 10.4.2.

Rename refactoring worked during 1 hour after installation but has suddenly stopped working (the menu is grayed out, and control shift E, show the Find dialog instead of the refactor window). As well as control G, to 'go to' a variable or method declaration, doesn't work anymore.

 

What is the cause of this behaviour ?

 

Regards, Daniel

 

 

[Bill Meyer 333]

20 minutes ago, Mr. Daniel said:

Rename refactoring worked during 1 hour after installation but has suddenly stopped working (the menu is grayed out, and control shift E, show the Find dialog instead of the refactor window). As well as control G, to 'go to' a variable or method declaration, doesn't work anymore.

What plug-ins have you installed?

[Der schöne Günther 306]

Sidenote: I sometimes have this with 10.0 Seattle, so this is not necessarily related to 10.4.2.

[Attila Kovacs 617]

a right click in the editor enables it again, old bug

[Mr. Daniel 0]

It is out of the box sydney 10.4.2 with TMS VCL UI and FlexCel components installed. @Attila Kovacs, what right click do you mean ?

[Mr. Daniel 0]

It looks like the IDE is kinda struggling with itself, because after some time code completion also failed. Now that I have restarted the IDE, code completion works again.

[Rob Truby 4]

Somewhat related, but for a different refactoring.

 

Using the inline var definition breaks the extract method refactoring. 

 

procedure Test;
var
  Value: Integer;
begin
  Value := 0;

  for var i := 0 to 10 do
    Inc(Value);
end;

 

For the above you can't extract Value := 0; as a method. If i is defined in the var section you can. 

 

procedure Test;
var
  i, Value: Integer;
begin
  Value := 0;

  for i := 0 to 10 do
    Inc(Value);
end;

 

I have submitted a report for this RSP-33176

 

Edited March 4, 2021 by Rob Truby

[David Schwartz 413]

I've noticed this quite a bit. Also, for some projects, the <ctrl>-Space does nothing, even though the project compiles and runs fine. Restarting the IDE doesn't help.

Edited March 5, 2021 by David Schwartz