[Lazarus] Getting rid of bogus form

Mattias Gaertner nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de
Wed Sep 29 11:32:53 CEST 2010


On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:27:18 +0200
"Bo Berglund" <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:

> I made a mistake when trying out Lazarus for the first time....
> 
> Lazarus had created a form automatically on start (Form1).
> 
> I created a unit containing my wrapper for the com port,
> which I intend to use. It will contain a working thread to
> handle the actual in/out of data etc.
> 
> Then I decided to save the project and since I had focus on
> my com unit in the editor I just typed in comport as the
> name of the unit that was gƥing to be saved.
> 
> Then I realized that the form unit had been named comport!
> When the saving continued with the real comport unit I entered
> the same name in order to overwrite the file I created by mistake.
> This seemed to work so my next step was to go back to the form
> and do a SaveAs in order to rename it.
> 
> But no matter what I do it wouldn't allow me to save it under a
> new name....
> 
> So I closed it and created a new form instead and saved it
> with the name of my choosing.
> But still there is a mysterious Form1 lingering on in my
> project options forms tab and I cannot get rid of it.
> 
> I removed the extra comport from the uses clause of the project 
> file and also removed the line that creates it.
> But it stays in my project properties anyway.
> I also deleted files comport.lfm and comport.lrs and restarted
> Lazarus, but still my project properties show this Form1 as
> available....
> 
> How can I get rid of this ghost form for good?
> (Where is the information of this form saved?)

In the project inspector.

Mattias




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