First of all, I get this forum is mostly about Lazarus but as it's linked as the only forum ( and best ) for questions about the fpc compiler and package overall, I wonder why there isnt't
a section dealing with the builtin IDE ?
I've been using fpc for almost 10 years ( whith the standard IDE as I come from BP ), using Delphi compatible switch and have been able to convert and compile all my code from the schoolage and developing new programs whit windows compatability using DirectX and so on
and I've grown custom to fpc. Fpc, the built in Borland like IDE i'm used to. From what I understand from Reading posts here, most of you don't use it anymore but using Lazarus instead.
I like the old IDE but I can't find much information here when it doesn't work.
For me it worked flawlessly up until v 2.6.0 , after that it would sporadicly hang and so on, wouldn't compile ( actually this was due to a compiler switch I didn't realized was needed from v 2.6.0 ) but even then the IDE wasn't stable. I kept using my last stable version 2.4.1.
Last week I did a complete cleanout of all existing versions of fpc and reistalled v3.0.0 to a different drive and set up a new environment ( whith paths and everything, Win 7 ) and tried
to compile something, it worked ( after ofcourse recompiling some units etc ... ). After playing around for an hour or so the IDE started to just hang when editing text, restarting trying again resulted in the same situation, compiling, get error, go to error, change ... Hang. Tried opening the file BEFORE compiling, OK, try to change, HANG. Got tired and let it be. Today I got a Little bit
closer to get it to compile as it didn't hang the ide as I was changing the code but that didn't last wery long, nw as soon as I open the ide and tries to open any file (.pas or .ini ) via the menues the IDE crasches with ' RTE 215 ' error code.
Is there anyone who knows why this is ? Or how I can get past this since I last week uninstalled and deleted all my old installations of fpc in hope that this would help ( I have a freind who downloaded fpc 3.0.0 for the first time and he doesn't run into theese problems.( same version of win 7)).
My own speculation is that since ver 2.6.0 fpc uses Registry values to store things like fpc.ini and other paths to important files, that isn't working. For example can't I add helpfiles ... If I add the toc, some abritary helpfile and so on, it works in this session, choose save fpc.ini, Close fpc, reopen it, no helpfiles ??? what happened to the ini file ? seek up the ini file manually , edit it, no change. It seems fpc reads the ini file from different places depending on startups. And yes, I have triad as I stated above to manually load an ini file but the IDE won't let me, crashes.
All and any help is apressiated since I love pascal and fpc is the one i've found best suits my needs. I don't think this is a compiler issue at all but a IDE issue.