Please help! I'm stuck!
lazarus / 9-Editor

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EganSolo · 2025-09-01 19:10

Hey,
Lazarus is failing to start and throwing this:

Overlapping controls found
:SourceNotebook,AnchorsDockSite5.
Press Ok to ignore and risk data corruption
Press Abort to kill the program

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AlexTP · 2025-09-01 20:34

Can you run it from terminal, and show the stack trace?

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EganSolo · 2025-09-02 05:49

Hi Alex,

 Thanks for the suggestion. I did run it from the command prompt, but
if a stack dump was generated, it wasn't printed on the command line.

I uninstalled and reinstalled Lazarus and found out that the problem
occurs when attempting to switch between an editing and debugging
desktop in docked mode. The error message I get now is a slight
variation on the one I posted earlier:

overlapping controls found
:SourceNotebook,AnchorDockSite12.

It appears that Lazarus is struggling with the desktop configuration.

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CM630 · 2025-09-02 07:01

What is your OS and maybe Lazarus version?
If Windows, did you select to delete the previous configuration during
installation? If you did not - try to reinstall with removing the old
config, or just delete the configuration files (or rename them, so you
could use them later, if necessary). Indeed, if you ask me where and
which the config files are - I do not know.

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n7800 · 2025-09-07 20:09

Quote from: EganSolo on September 02, 2025, 07:49:49 amI uninstalled
and reinstalled Lazarus and found out that the problem occurs when
attempting to switch between an editing and debugging desktop in
docked mode.

It appears that Lazarus is struggling with the desktop configuration.

Then simply delete this desktop via "Menu > Tools > Desktops" (or
"Menu > Window > Desktops" in the new version).

In the worst case, you can delete all desktops manually. Make sure to
make a backup! And edit IDE files only when it is closed.


In general, is this a configuration from the old IDE or a clean one?
What OS and how was Lazarus installed?