[Lazarus] Error: illegal qualifier [ found

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:38:28 +0100
Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1 at aol.com> wrote:

> Kjow schrieb:
> > 2010/1/20 Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de>:
> >> Can you give a more complete example?
> >>
> >> Mattias
> > 
> > e.g. If I add to a form a listview or a memo or a combobox and in the
> > source code I put this:
> > 
> > ListBox1.items[0].
> > or
> > Memo1.Lines[0].
> > or
> > combobox1.items[0].
> > 
> > If I press CRTL+Space I got this error:
> > 
> > \lcl\stdctrls.pp(909,19) Error: identifier expected, but  found
> 
> IMO code completion should be better in ignoring whitespace.

This was follow up error. The error message is misleading and the
first error had nothing to do with white space.


> I had 
> similar problems already, where a space out of thin air (source 
> formatter?) prevented usable typeahead completion. 

?

> The concrete error 
> may depend on IDE options, in detail formatting options.
> 
> With source formatting it would be nice to have:
> 1) disable any formating, using a single checkbox (in the menu?)

What do you mean here with formatting?


> 2) provide kind of settings information dump, for attachment to bug reports.

editoroptions.xml

 
> [1] would allow to determine whether formatting is involved at all. 
> Since I don't like auto-formatting, I'd use that checkbox to disable 
> automatic formatting most of the time.
> 
> [2] should allow to mimic the IDE settings, which may be required to 
> reproduce the error. It should be easy to restore the original state of 
> the IDE settings, or to switch between both settings (hers/mine).

In this case it was independent of the options, but just on order of
keys pressed. So this would not have helped here.


Mattias