[XE3:] While debugging, digging deep in the message processing, the IDE suddenly vanishes and my browser opens and shows "Product or License Validation Error"; while losing all break points and their conditions. What sick brain has devised this shit?!
[XE3:] While debugging, digging deep in the message processing, the IDE suddenly vanishes and my browser opens and shows "Product or License Validation Error"; while losing all break points and their conditions. What sick brain has devised this shit?!
My XE3 is licensed. Perhaps I should search the net for a cracked version to avoid this situation in the future.
What happens if you reboot your machine?
ReplyDeleteI'll see tomorrow. For today it's closing time.
ReplyDeleteThis has happened to me quite a few times. Not debugging, but suddenly XE3 won't start and opens this web page. A repair install resolves it. Not seen it at all on XE7 where I now spend most of my time. Rebooting has never helped me.
ReplyDeleteHappened to me a few times with XE2, XE5 and now also XE7 (rarely). For what I can remenber, rebooting has always fixed the (really annoying) issue.
ReplyDeleteAs usual the pirates get the better solution...
ReplyDeleteKnown bug. Happened to me all the time, not only while debugging. But not reproducible at will. Happened on different machines too. Reinstall didn't solve it. One of the reasons I said goodbye to XE3 when XE5 turned out to be more stable. It was embarrassing to have it happen at some public events.
ReplyDeleteNote: breakpoints are part of your .DSK. I remember asking a question on SO and someone wrote a DSK stripping tool to keep only the interesting bits: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27288723/delphi-2007-save-only-the-breakpoint-options-in-the-dsk-file
Jeroen Wiert Pluimers XE3 is one of the worst Delphi releases ever...
ReplyDeleteJeroen Wiert Pluimers But the DSK file is only saved when saving the project, or when the IDE is closed normally. In my case, after restarting the IDE and loading the project, the breakpoints were lost. I'll try to remember typing Ctrl+S even when only debugging :-)
ReplyDeleteAnd btw.: XE7 is also installed on the same computer, works fine without greater issues.
ReplyDeleteAchim Kalwa being in the Delphi world, pressing Ctrl-Shift-S often should be part of your autonomic nervous system by now (;
ReplyDeleteJeroen Wiert Pluimers Ctrl-S and Alt-F-A are :-D Especially before a compile
ReplyDeleteNicholas Ring Don't you have auto save option turned on. It is a must. In addition, I also do Ctrl-S after every few lines of code, just in case...
ReplyDeleteDalija Prasnikar Ctrl-S every few seconds is more than an habit for me, is totally involuntary now (and autosave immediately turned on for every new IDE installed)
ReplyDeleteMarco Cirinei I tend to do Ctrl-S while browsing the web or using other apps that do not have/require it.
ReplyDeleteDalija Prasnikar No, I turn it off (but there is a third party add-on that has one also) because it annoys me when I start a new unit and the IDE keeps popping with a save dialogue.
ReplyDeleteLike Marco Cirinei, I have a quite a habit of ctrl-s... which I do in other apps, like Word.
Have you checked if you have external files in the bin folder of the IDE?
ReplyDeletehttp://support.embarcadero.com/article/40373
Dalija Prasnikar LOL ;)
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