[Lazarus] RE : Open File troubles.

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:37:38 +0100
"Ludo Brands" <ludo.brands at free.fr> wrote:

> > > Latest trunk on win32 has only the "Lazarus file 
> > (*.pas,*.pp, *.inc)" 
> > > option when opening a file. Drop down box has only one line.
> > 
> > I just tested: A new IDE has the usual items. As you noted below.
> > 
> > Maybe you were unlucky and fetched a buggy revision?
> > 
> 
> I have another older lazarus version (32410) with its own config directory.
> When I started that one with the default config directory it also had only
> the one line. That is what triggered the idea that the filefilters.xml was
> corrupted, perhaps by indeed a buggy version. 
> 
> > > Found that the problem is with filefilters.xml in the 
> > lazarus settings 
> > > directory. Deleting it brought back the old options. The 
> > contents of 
> > > the file was:
> > > 
> > > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> > > <CONFIG Count="7">
> > >   <Filter01 Mask="*.lpi;*.lpr;*.lpk;*.pas;*.pp;*.inc;*.lfm;*.dfm"
> > > Name="Lazarus file"/>
> > >   <Filter02 Mask="*.pas;*.pp" Name="Lazarus unit"/>
> > >   <Filter03 Mask="*.lpi" Name="Lazarus project"/>
> > >   <Filter04 Mask="*.lfm;*.dfm" Name="Lazarus form"/>
> > >   <Filter05 Mask="*.lpk" Name="Lazarus package"/>
> > >   <Filter06 Mask="*.lpr" Name="Lazarus project source"/>
> > >   <Filter07 Mask="" Name=""/>
> > > </CONFIG>
> > > 
> > > No new filefilters.xml has been created so far.
> > 
> > It is created once you change the file filters.
> > 
> 
> I hadn't noticed that new option screen yet. Strange that 32410 which didn't
> have the screen did act badly on the filefilters.xml. Perhaps it used it
> already but without an interface to change it?

Maybe you once installed Graeme's package.


> Weird is also that the options in the file filters screen don't correspond
> at all with the actual options I have when opening a file. No new
> filefilters.xml yet. Svn 34249 WinXP. Clicking on "reset filters" doesn't
> help.

See here
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/IDE_Window:_Environment_Options#File_Filters

Mattias