Getting format error loading form
lazarus / 10-Designer

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MISV · 2025-01-23 07:42

My usual Windows/Delphi to Mac/Lazarus process is to have Lazarus open
the Windows form file and remove all invalid properties. This
generally works well.

However, today I for the first time got a funky error *after* this
when trying to load the form

Format error

QuoteUnable to convert text form data of file "...path..." into binary
stream. (Wrong token type: = expected byt Symbol found (at 326,24,
stream offset 00002059))
The offending line appears to be

Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]window.onload = function(){var x1 =
document.getElementById("main_content_section"); if (x1) { var x =
document.getElementsByClassName("geshi");for (var i = 0; i           
      Style = csDropDown
If we assume first COL is 1 then "=" is placed on COL 25 (but if zero
indexed it is ar 24)

I read this as an error in occuring in the reader (and not an error in
actually trying to convert this to a "live" component on the form)



Any ideas?

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n7800 · 2025-01-23 15:04

I have no idea if this is related, but I want to share a similar
error, which with its "hint" confused me as much as possible and took
a lot of time:
https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/lazarus/lazarus/-/issues/41323

If you want to investigate this, then try opening your file in another
version of Lazarus to see if this is a regression. If so, then it will
be easy to find the culprit commit.

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wp · 2025-01-24 10:56

Quote from: MISV on January 23, 2025, 08:42:52 amQuoteUnable to
convert text form data of file "...path..." into binary stream. (Wrong
token type: = expected byt Symbol found (at 326,24, stream offset
00002059))Recently I had the same or a similar error after I had
modified a package and did not do a clean rebuild of the IDE. So,
maybe just try that.

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MISV · 2025-01-24 13:07

I think you may be right.

I imported the form into Lazarus on Windows. No problems. And moving
the file to my Mac afterwards works. So it must be some versioning
difference between them. (Mac version newer)