bdslauncher stopped working

[Attila Kovacs 629]

bdslauncher stopped working, can't open pas' with dbl click anymore, strangely for both installations (10.1/2007)

if I rename bdslauncher the system complains that the application is missing.

how should I debug it further?

[dummzeuch 1505]

30 minutes ago, Attila Kovacs said:

bdslauncher stopped working, can't open pas' with dbl click anymore, strangely for both installations (10.1/2007)

if I rename bdslauncher the system complains that the application is missing.

how should I debug it further?

Have you tried to set the default application for .pas files again? In recent versions of Delphi that's an option in Tools -> Options, not sure about Delphi 2007.

 

On the other hand, personally I don't want to open .pas files with the IDE but prefer Notepad++ for that. And I don't want to open .dpr, .dpk and .dproj files with bdslauncher either because it always opens them with the latest Delphi version (or the one that has been registered as the default handler last) rather than the one the project actually needs.  Shameless plug: dzBdsLauncher

[Attila Kovacs 629]

2 minutes ago, dummzeuch said:

Have you tried to set the default application for .pas files again? In recent versions of Delphi that's an option in Tools -> Options, not sure about Delphi 2007.

 

found it, no luck, but the right association is there, it's bdslauncher which stopped doing anything

[Attila Kovacs 629]

Okay, the same happened on my other machine, clicking on a pas brought up the select app dialog with bdslauncher on the first place, clicked on it, and that's it. It doesn't work anymore.

 

[dummzeuch 1505]

2 hours ago, Attila Kovacs said:

Okay, the same happened on my other machine, clicking on a pas brought up the select app dialog with bdslauncher on the first place, clicked on it, and that's it. It doesn't work anymore.

Can you still open the IDE by starting bdslauncher.exe? Does double clicking a .dpr or .dproj file still work? What happens if you start bdslauncher.exe from a cmd prompt and pass a .pas file as parameter?

[Attila Kovacs 629]

14 minutes ago, dummzeuch said:

Can you still open the IDE by starting bdslauncher.exe? Does double clicking a .dpr or .dproj file still work? What happens if you start bdslauncher.exe from a cmd prompt and pass a .pas file as parameter?

no bds running, dpr from shell starts bds, opens project, no further shell actions are working, no pas, dpr, dproj are passed to the IDE

no bds running, dproj from shell starts bds, opens project, no further shell actions are working, no pas, dpr, dproj are passed to the IDE

no bds running, pas from shell starts bds, does NOT opens the pas file, no further shell actions are working, no pas, dpr, dproj are passed to the IDE

 

[dummzeuch 1505]

Then I'm out of ideas. Last resort is probably reinstalling Delphi and keeping your fingers crossed that it actually solves the problem.

 

Hm, maybe: If you have got another working Delphi installation, you could try to export the registry settings from there and import them into the broken installation (can't break much more, can it?) Alternatively you could export both and compare them using a text comparison tool, maybe that sheds some light on it.