[Lazarus] TXMLPropstorage not consistently saviing

[A.J. Venter]

I'll get some up as soon as I get home tonight. The only copy of the
early stuff so far is on my home PC (while I'm at it, I need to get it
version controlled before it gets any bigger anyway :P )

A.J.

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Michael Van Canneyt
<michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
>
> Can you post a sample project, so we can test it ?
>
> Michael.
>
> On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, A.J. Venter wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>> I'm having a really weird problem with TXMLPropstorage (using lazarus
>> SVN from Saturday). I actually have some calls to TXMLPropstorage.save
>> to try and ensure it happens, but apparently it only creates the
>> config file the very first time it's called. Then if you clean out the
>> config file, no amount of anything I can come up with will restore it,
>> or save new/updated settings to it.
>>
>> For a test I put a writeln into the TXMLPropStorage.OnSaveProperties
>> event and it claims to be saving, but the file is not created. I don't
>> want to generate a blank file at startup as I want to be able to test
>> for the presence of the file and automatically open a settings dialog
>> if it's not there.
>> The component is on the settings dialog's form.
>>
>> There is a deliberate call to "save" in the event handler for the OK
>> button, and another in the main form's onClose event.
>>
>> I cannot think what else there may be. Is there some way to force it
>> to save it's current state at a given moment ? Or at least determine
>> why it's not doing so already when I call the save method ?
>>
>> Thanks
>> A.J.
>>
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www.kongoni.co.za
www.silentcoder.co.za - Blog