[Lazarus] After a Build all, the IDE does not restart

[Marcos Douglas]

2011/9/14 Flávio Etrusco <flavio.etrusco at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich
> <DrDiettrich1 at aol.com> wrote:
>> Marcos Douglas schrieb:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> My env is:
>>> Lazarus 0.9.31 r31914 FPC 2.4.5 i386-win32-win32/win64
>>>
>>> After a Build all, the IDE does not restart.
>>> The compilation is Ok; IDE was closed; show the splash again... but
>>> the IDE is gone.
>>
>> I had this problem, caused by (memcheck...) dialogs hidden behind the splash
>> screen. Start with --no_splash_screen (or the like), or remove the splash
>> screen display from the lpr.
>>
>> DoDi
>
> I suppose this is not related to the problem reported, at least I
> assumed "the IDE is gone" as having no trace of its process in the
> TaskManager.

Both happend: the IDE gone (no trace in TaskManager) and the IDE lock.

> But I "always" see this :-/ At In my case the problem is if you start
> Lazarus by itself (without using StartLazarus), when the IDE is
> (first) restarted, StartLazarus is launched before the MemCheck output
> is shown, so its MessageBox is behind the splashscreen. In Win7,
> though, the "Error" window button is show in the taskbar I can just
> close it using the menu.
> It's seems easy to fix, but I didn't come to conclusion what's the best fix.
>
> Doh! I've just realized what a donkey I am: simply changing the
> Lazarus shortcut to point to StartLazarus instead fixes this, and
> fixes the --no-splash-screen not being respected. It has the
> disadvantage of not "grouping" the running instance with the
> shortcut/launching button, though... (and I'd really prefer not having
> startlazarus running all time - I suppose it has no tasks while
> waiting? - but checking now it's only 3MB RSS, I remember having seen
> 20MB before...)

Hm... I do not use startlazarus too - I used, but seeing my BAT script
now it uses lazarus.exe (I must have changed it for some time and did
not remember).
I will try, thanks.

Marcos Douglas