Formatter doesn't work in a Unit??

[Ian Branch 127]

Is there a reason the formatter, CTRL-ALT-F, doesn't seem to work in a Unit without any Form?

Or is it a Bug?

 

Ian

[dummzeuch 1505]

It definitely should work.

[Ian Branch 127]

I feel a Bug report coming on.... 😉

[Ian Branch 127]

OK.  My apologies.  It does.

Just not on my Function library unit.  😞

Investigating.

 

Apologies again.

 

Ian

[Ian Branch 127]

OK.  I give up.  What is it in the attached that the Formatter doesn't like??

GITLAKLib.pas

[limelect 48]

I tried with Gexpert 1.3.11.64 experimental with D10.2.3 and it works OK

[Ian Branch 127]

I am using D11.3, GExperts 1.3.23.4026.

[limelect 48]

I cannot help only @dummzeuch can help

[limelect 48]

Just a suggestion out of curiosity look with a hex editor if you have a strange character inside

Looked with Hex editor sime to be OK

Edited April 30, 2023 by limelect

[Ian Branch 127]

How would one identify a 'strabge character' out of the multitude?

[limelect 48]

Non lfcr or non printable asci but i looked for you and could not find any

but maybe I missed one. 

some times programs do misbehave with unprintable characters

like FF and so on there are many more

[Ian Branch 127]

Tks.

[limelect 48]

Be aware that Gexpert is a full-grown program (by now) so I do not think it has a problem with formatting.

[Ian Branch 127]

Agreed, but it still has its quirks.  😉

[dummzeuch 1505]

2 hours ago, limelect said:

Be aware that Gexpert is a full-grown program (by now) so I do not think it has a problem with formatting.

The GExperts formatter definitely has some serious shortcomings, in particular when it comes to supporting generics. Just have a look at the tickets on this topic on SourceForge.

[dummzeuch 1505]

11 hours ago, Ian Branch said:

OK.  I give up.  What is it in the attached that the Formatter doesn't like??

GITLAKLib.pas

Formatting that unit works fine for me.

[Ian Branch 127]

😞   It works for me on all other units except for this one.  😞

OK.  Thanks for your time.  It is only a small one so no biggie to keep it formatted manually.

 

Thansk to all for your input & support.

 

Regards,

Ian

[timfrost 78]

I can reproduce the same problem with your unit (but not with any of my own).  My GExperts build reports itself in 'About' as "1.3.22 build 4008".  I think I built this from source back when 11.3 first came out (see another topic here) but I see the same issue (and the same build number 4008) in your unit with the installer with the name 2023-03-25.

 

Although no formatting of your unit takes place, either with the keyboard shortcut or the menu, the IDE offers to save it on close, so believes something has changed.

 

If I remove your comment on line 22, the formatter works correctly.  Adding a comment at the end of an interface function definition in one of my own units also makes the formatting fail to take place.  So this looks a bit like a data-related formatter bug.

 

I will see if I can find 1.3.23.4026 and try that also.

 

 

[dummzeuch 1505]

Interestingly even with the DLL from the 2023-03-25 release formatting that unit works fine on my computer. I wonder whether the problem is related to a specific processor type.

3 hours ago, timfrost said:

I will see if I can find 1.3.23.4026 and try that also.

You won't find that version anywhere because it was never released. Iain is probably using a DLL he compiled himself from the current sources, which are revision #4026 in the svn repository. But of course you could update your sources and do the same.

[timfrost 78]

My CPU is an Intel core i7-11700, and I can reproduce the same symptoms here with Ian's source file on an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, where Delphi is 10.4 and GExperts is 1.3.21.3833. But not on Delphi 10.3 with GExperts 1.3.14.80, which runs on a core i7-6700T. On the older machine the formatter runs with or without the comment.

My guess is that this may be related to the formatting settings; perhaps both Ian and I have settings that you do not. I tend to copy and review my settings manually from IDE to IDE, but 10.3 might be different. And I do not remember whether there is an easy export/import settings mechanism for me to send you my settings to test.

I don't really want to update my own GExperts at this moment. I do not normally put comments at the end of interface lines so the problem does not affect my formatting.  I only researched the issue because it seemed an interesting bug, and might have been related to the apparently intermittent 'formatter does not run in 11.3' issue which I fixed in February by building from source, following your suggestion here then.

[Ian Branch 127]

Yup.  Confirmed.  Remove  the comment on line 22 and the Formatter works on mine as well.

In fact, if you have a comment on the end of any of the declarations, the Formatter fails.  Whether it is a '//' or a '{ }' style comment.

A strange thing.

 

Thomas, You want a bug report?

 

[edit]  Bug Report submitted.  Oooops!  It went in as a feature request rather than a bug report. 😞  My Bad.

 

Ian

Edited May 1, 2023 by Ian Branch

[dummzeuch 1505]

12 hours ago, Ian Branch said:

Yup.  Confirmed.  Remove  the comment on line 22 and the Formatter works on mine as well.

In fact, if you have a comment on the end of any of the declarations, the Formatter fails.  Whether it is a '//' or a '{ }' style comment.

A strange thing.

 

Thomas, You want a bug report?

 

[edit]  Bug Report submitted.  Oooops!  It went in as a feature request rather than a bug report. 😞  My Bad.

Could you please also submit it as a bug report? I'm looking into that category more often than feature requests and if I create it you won't get notification emails on it. I'll delete that feature request after you have copied it.

 

(I don't understand why feature requests and bug reports are two distinct databases rather than just categories in the same one. If that were the case I could simply change the category and be done.)

[Ian Branch 127]

Done..