[Lazarus] Trunk IDE won't display project's main form

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> Mark Morgan Lloyd schrieb:
>> I'm in an uncomfortable situation where the last few weeks' worth of 
>> trunk won't display a project's main form (populated only with 
>> standard controls) and won't compile it to anything reliable (noting 
>> other discussion, it's got a background thread). I got here because of 
>> fixes to the SPARC code generation which propelled me onto FPC 2.7.1, 
>> and fixes to Lazarus's gdb interface. After investigation yesterday 
>> I'm fairly confident that this problem is not CPU-specific, the first 
>> part (form display) appears to be something to do with GTK2.
> 
> Can you insert debug code, to write the form coordinates, Visible etc. 
> information into the console (or log file)?

Sorry, I think I might have been ambiguous. It's the IDE which won't 
display the form when it tries to load the project, so it sounds 
suspiciously as though I might have to instrument IDE code- and quite 
frankly I don't know where to start.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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