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IDE - Delphi 11.1 "View Unit" and "View Form" buttons stopped working.

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My Delphi - Rad studio 11.1 IDE suddenly have a problem. The "View Unit" and "View Form" 
buttons suddenly stopped showing anything. I uninstalled a few 3r party "Experts" but that 
didn’t help. It happens on any type of project, VCL or FMX. 
Any ideas where I can start to look for the solution?

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Strange. What happens when you press F12 (standard key to switch between form and unit)?

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No need to reset the toolbar, just remove the two buttons and add them again!

Anyway the toolbar is buggy and really need fixing.

 

keyboard shortcuts:

CTRL+F12  View Units

SHIFT+F12 View Forms

 

Also select main menu:

View>View Units

View>View Forms

 

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Happened to me this morning for the first time.  Close/open the IDE resolved.

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I've had the same problem for months. Close and re-open, even restart Windows, doesn't fix them. Remove and re-add from customize toolbars doesn't fix them either. Ctrl+F12 does work, but I prefer to use the buttons. What else can I try?

 

I also have several other issues with the Delphi 11.2 IDE. For example, in one of my longer units it seems always confused what lines things are on. If I search the file and click to go to a result it always goes to the wrong place (offset by a constant amount). Find Declaration (Ctrl+click) also never works in that file. Is this a bug with long units (almost 8000 lines) or does something need resetting? Again, restart doesn't help.

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10 minutes ago, XylemFlow said:

Is this a bug with long units (almost 8000 lines) or does something need resetting? Again, restart doesn't help.

It is usually due to non-Windows linebreaks in the file (only #10 or only #13 instead of #13#10 pair).

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On 6/25/2023 at 2:30 PM, PeterBelow said:

It is usually due to non-Windows linebreaks in the file (only #10 or only #13 instead of #13#10 pair).

Thanks. I tried searching the file in Notepad++ using Regular expression \r(?!\n)|(?<!\r)\n, which is supposed to find these. None were found though.

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52 minutes ago, XylemFlow said:

Thanks. I tried searching the file in Notepad++ using Regular expression \r(?!\n)|(?<!\r)\n, which is supposed to find these. None were found though.

You could simply use Notepad++ to change the line break to Unix and back to Windows. That fixes any of these problems.

 

Also Delphi 11 comes with a setting to do that automatically:

Tools -> Options -> User Interface -> Editor -> Line Endings:

"Convert files with known extensions to CRLF"

(No idea when that was introduced. I had not noticed before. Also no idea whether it actually works.)

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I think from D11. It's alerted me a couple of times to a fix.

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4 hours ago, dummzeuch said:

You could simply use Notepad++ to change the line break to Unix and back to Windows.

another way, you can try this:

  1. copy your problematic text in a any new unit (.PAS) --> you can create using your Notepad/Notepad++/ etc...  or saving your "pasted text" in your current unit in the Editor
  2. now, try open this file in your IDE
    1. normally, the RAD identify that exists some line-feeds non-default (like used in Unix files) and try solve it!

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Thanks everyone, but I don't think the line endings are the cause of the issue. Like I said, Notepad++ couldn't find any incorrect line endings. I also tried converting to Unix EOL and back to Windows EOL and the resulting file was identical to the original.

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11.3 exhibits the same problem.  I went ahead and uninstalled/reinstalled 11.3.  Works fine, for now.

 

Also interesting that sometimes after a long coding session with a lot of this and that its modal boxes will appear behind the IDE.  Quirky crazy things.

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