How I change between projects.
lazarus / 31-LCL

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ArtLogi · 2016-06-19 13:09

Hello.

I have a problem that have two possible reasons and third as a
combination of these two:

The IDE have a bug on thisI do something wrongBoth
The problem is as follows. I have my AAA project open, then I try to
open the another project (BBB) to prototype some feature of the LCL
etc. but...

When I close the project AAA from menu "Project>Close Project" and
choose in the pop-up windows combobox the "BBB" it opens again AAA
like nothing happened.
When I  just open the project it opens the main source, but that is
all no forms no nothing else. I can not find the other components of
the projects from any dropdown menus etc. (Windows) ... ok I did found
the two icons where I can open forms and units, but still. Before I
just walked by on this by doing "click all possible buttons until
something happens" method.

This (the remainders of project AAA stays open after closed and BBB
opened) feels odd behaviour.

PS. How I can copy the version information to clipboard as one click,
now I need to type it manually

Version #:1.6
Date: 2016-2-14
FPC v: 3.0.0
SVN Revision: 51630
x86_64-win64-win32/win64

PPS. The projects AAA and BBB are v1.6RC2 legacy.

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Windsurfer · 2016-06-19 14:54

When you create a new project, immediately save it to its own folder.
I suspect that you are saving both projects to the same folder. (I
sometimes do this to my annoyance.) My folder structure is:

/home/projects/project1
/home/projects/project2
...
/home/projects/projectn

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ArtLogi · 2016-06-19 17:16

Quote from: Windsurfer on June 19, 2016, 04:54:42 pmWhen you create a
new project, immediately save it to its own folder. I suspect that you
are saving both projects to the same folder. (I sometimes do this to
my annoyance.) My folder structure is:

/home/projects/project1
/home/projects/project2
...
/home/projects/projectn
No this isn't the case on this one. Both are in separate own
directories under Desktop in Win7. Maybe it is somesort of RC2
artefact on those projects. I need to try to create two fresh ones and
see if the same behaviour continues.

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Windsurfer · 2016-06-20 12:48

Have you tried Run|Cleanup and build on them both? It sometimes fixes
weird problems.

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ArtLogi · 2016-06-20 14:23

Quote from: Windsurfer on June 20, 2016, 02:48:20 pmHave you tried
Run|Cleanup and build on them both? It sometimes fixes weird problems.
I'll try that, but now I'm strugling with more serious problems of
Laz.

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JuhaManninen · 2016-06-20 14:49

Use the Project -> Project Inspector to see what files belong to your
project.
Remember, the project also maintains session info, including open
editor files.
It means you can have a file from another project open and it will be
reopened when you reopen the project again. Just close the extra
editor files.

FYI, you never need to do Project -> Close Project. The current
project is always closed when you open another one or when you close
Lazarus.

Quote from: ArtLogi on June 20, 2016, 04:23:58 pmQuote from:
Windsurfer on June 20, 2016, 02:48:20 pmHave you tried Run|Cleanup and
build on them both? It sometimes fixes weird problems.
I'll try that, but now I'm strugling with more serious problems of
Laz. 

There are no serious problems in Lazarus.

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ArtLogi · 2016-06-20 17:34

It seems so, some naming blurbs, but nothing else. Rest is user errors
as usual.

That session info actually explains my issues since it holds note for
all open windows, not just the ones which belongs to project closely..

Live and learn.. Since projects AAA and BBB are main and proto for
main, I usually had both sources open.  uh.