Getting format error loading form

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MISV:
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

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

--- Code: Pascal [+][-]window.onload = function(){var x1 = document.getElementById("main_content_section"); if (x1) { var x = document.getElementsByClassName("geshi");for (var i = 0; i < x.length; i++) { x[i].style.maxHeight='none'; x[i].style.height = Math.min(x[i].clientHeight+15,306)+'px'; x[i].style.resize = "vertical";}};} --- 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?

n7800:
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.

wp:

--- Quote from: MISV on January 23, 2025, 08:42:52 am ---
--- Quote ---Unable to convert text form data of file "...path..." into binary stream. (Wrong token type: = expected byt Symbol found (at 326,24, stream offset 00002059))
--- End quote ---

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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.

MISV:
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)

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