What's CSVExporter1.FormatSettings.Quotestrings ?

[mirce.vladimirov]

I am switching to a new computer.
Old configuration is windows7 32bit, lazarus 1.4.2, 32bit.
New configuration is windows10 64bit, lazarus 1.6.4, 32bit.

My existing project compiles and runs under old configuration.
Same project under new configuration is compiling and producing .exe but imediately fails to run, shows this (picture attached):

CSVExporter1.FormatSettings.Quotestrings : Unknown property "QuoteStrings".

What is this, I've tried to find out, I've tried to google it , but nothing came up.
Anybody knows what is this ?

[wp]

QuoteStrings was removed two years ago when the csvexporter was rebuilt to use the csvbuilder. It does not look as if another property has taken its job.

Quotestring, in the old version, was declared as

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1.   // Quote string fields if value contains a space or delimiter char.
2.   TQuoteString = (qsAlways,qsSpace,qsDelimiter);
3.   TQuoteStrings = Set of TQuoteString;

and seems to define some rules when cell strings are quoted.

A comment in TCSVBuilder now says

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1.     // Character used to quote "problematic" data
2.     // (e.g. with delimiters or spaces in them)
3.     // A common quotechar is "
4.     property QuoteChar: TCSVChar read FQuoteChar write SetQuoteChar;
5.  

This seems to indicated that strings now are not quoted any more, only if a cell contains spaces or delimiters, i.e. like QuoteChar = [qsSpace, qsDelimiter].

If you have this situation then I think you can safely remove the QuoteString from your code.

[jamie]

Sounds like the form file needs to have it removed..

The lfm file for the form needs to have the Published property removed or renamed?

[taazz]

you seem to have changed more than your OS and hardware. What you see is the streaming mechanism (for the lfm file) trying to set a property that has been removed in the newer version of the library you are using(export import library).
To solve this problem you have to open the lfm files that have a CSVExporter1 component in them and delete the line for the quotedstrings property. A more visual way to do it is to open the form in the designer ignore the error that pops up and save it, overriding the deleted properties in the process.