[Lazarus] How to use data from stringlist in another form.

[appjaws]

On 26/03/13 14:26, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:14:00 +0000
> appjaws <lazarus at appjaws.plus.com> wrote:
>
>> I have 2 forms, form 1 calls form 2 on a buttonclick process.
>> Form 2 loads a string list, operations are carried out and the
>> stringlist is saved.
>>
>> The application opens with form 1, data is produced and stored in a Tedit
>>
>> What I want to do is to compare the Tedit on form1 with data held in the
>> stringlist of form2. The problem is that the stringlist is not yet
>> created from the stringlist file.
>> I have tried to load the stringlist from within form 1 but compilation
>> fails with :-
>> TestProj1.lpr(21,1) Error: Error while compiling resources. Compile with
>> -vd for more details. Check for duplicates.
>>
>> The messaged produced using -vd did not indicate any duplicates and
>> terminated the application with the same message.
>>
>> I'm sure this must be possible but with my limited knowledge, I can't
>> see how.
>
> The "Error while compiling resources" has nothing to do with
> stringlists or any runtime logic.
>
> What fpc version?
> What platform?
>
> Mattias
>
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fpc 2.6.2, Lazarus 1.0.8 running on kubuntu linux

I copied the stringlist code from form 2 to form 1 and had the errors, 
so I thought that reusing the code was the wrong thing to do, once I 
removed it  the app compiled without error.
So I need to know if and how to do this.
Thanks
Paul

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