New Edit Windows

Is this what you need:

Tools->environment options->Code Insight-> Code completion (uncheck)

no it's not, to know exactly what i mean, in the code window try to press the down and left arrows respectivaly and in a fast way, then you will see that many edit window will be opend, in another way, please rigth click on the code, and you will see NEW EDIT WINDOW option, click on it and you will know what i want.

Thanks..

Is this a joke?

If not then I suggest to reinstall Delphi...

No it not a joke , i mean every word i say, let me re explain what iam facing.

Iam using Delphi 3.0 on NT Platform,
while iam writing a code and using the up,down, left, right keys in a rapid way a new edit window will be displayed not one time but more than 3,4,5 windows for the selected unit.

The traditional way to open a new window for the selected unit is by clicking the right mouse and selecting the NEW EDIT WINDOW option.

So is their a way to disable such option, or is their any explanation for such behavior !!!!!

Please if you are interested in solving my issue i will be thankful to you otherwise Please dont waste my precious time.

No it not a joke , i mean every word i say, let me re explain what iam facing.

Iam using Delphi 3.0 on NT Platform,
while iam writing a code and using the up,down, left, right keys in a rapid way a new edit window will be displayed not one time but more than 3,4,5 windows for the selected unit.

The traditional way to open a new window for the selected unit is by clicking the right mouse and selecting the NEW EDIT WINDOW option.

So is their a way to disable such option, or is their any explanation for such behavior !!!!!

Please if you are interested in solving my issue i will be thankful to you otherwise Please dont waste my precious time.

Weird. Did you install all updates?

I've never heard of this problem before...

Neither have I... does a reinstallation of Delphi 3 help?

i am surprised, now, i just want to ask when you right click on the code window, is the option NEW EDIT WINDOW available? if yes , then click it, and you will see another instance of the code window...


Thank you.

The option is there, but new edit windows are NEVER opened just because you use the cursor keys!! So you should really reinstall Delphi (or even Windows).

Regards, Madshi.

i did not say when i am using cursors key,i said when i am using cursor keys rapidly. please try it.

Okay, I tried it, nothing happens. It simply works without any new edit windows. I *NEVER* had this effect.

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okay, i don't know what i can say,
i want to inform you that problem is common between many programers in the company, not ONLY ME.

? really weird
have also done several tests,
but can't reproduce this.

are there any keyboard-macros
on your machines or are you using special keyboards?

One word: Virus?

The Neil =:(

courious effect for a virus, neil ;-)

Perhaps you should try to disable/unload all 3rd party packages & experts. It may be an expert your company is using, that mixes up your keyboard settings or IDE or ...

Regards, Madshi.

If it simulates key strokes or has affected the registry in some way. Just a thought (paranoia overload)

The Neil =:)

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it's not a virus, i have re-installed Delphi 3.0 many times.

thank you for all, and i wish i can meet any of you to show him what i mean.



Thanks

Well, we do believe you! It's just that noone of us have heard of this effect before. Have tried my suggestion (removing all 3rd party components/packages/experts)?

Rename the registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Borland\Delphi\3.0\Experts

to e.g. "Experts2". Then restart Delphi and uninstall all 3rd party stuff.

does the effect only appear in delphi? i mean, does it happen in other apps as well? eg. document windows in word? and how about bcb or any other borland ide?

if so, the problem resides somewhere outside of delphi.

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No, it's only in delphi, and it's common between 10 programers...

This doesn't sound like an installation issue (unless there's something wrong with the installation CD and you're all using the same CD). I know this is probably the last thing that you want to hear (and the last thing I'd ever suggest) but I'd go and hassle Inprise over this one

The Neil =:(

Hello,
May I add a comment that will at least
comfort ams ;)
We do have a similar problem here.
Many of us are facing that problem here.
But it's only happening from time to time.
We could not find a constant...
Maybe we could find something in common ?
It's happening under D3, we are using Gexperts and DelForExp as experts...
It's happening under NT 4 (sp6a for us)
It's happening mostly when you move your
cursor but also when you type stuff..

So ?

Hi John!!  :-)

ams seems to ignore my suggestions, so perhaps you might want to test it? What if you remove the experts (and as a second step the 3rd party components)? Does the problem still occur?

Regards, Madshi.

No Madshi, i don't ignore your suggestions , but i don't understand you excactly.will you please explain it in details.

Thanks.

I'm thinking this way: Your and jeurk's company have this problem, most other people here in the Delphi forum NOT. So there must be something special about your and jeurk's company. The only thing I can think of is a special 3rd party component or expert you've installed on your Delphi-system on every company's computer.

Alright. Look, you can extend the Delphi IDE by so-called experts. Those experts are either stand alone DLLs (registry key see my comments above), or included in a component package. Experts can do several things like manipulating Delphi's menu or manipulating key shortcuts or popping up new edit windows or [...]. So I guess, the guilty one for your problem will most probably be an expert.

How can you disable them? First, rename that expert registry key, then restart Delphi. Now all stand alone experts are disabled. Now go to the package configuration menu and delete or disable all packages, because there could be an expert in one of those packages.

If the problem now doesn't occur anymore, you should step by step install/enable the packages & stand alone experts again to find the guilty one. If the problem still occurs, then I'm out of ideas...

Regards, Madshi.

i tried it, but it does not work.

Hello Madshi,
Nice and clear explanation.
The problem occurs not often enough
to have the patience to work without gexperts and delforexp. I think all of you are using those two. I thought of the problem comming from gexperts, but one of us tried without and the problem is still here. delforexp is not touching the ide without beeing asked to do it...
About the packages, I cannot work without them, they contain all our framework.
You see, the problem is that we have more or less all the same configuration here, but not all of us have the problem. That's what I call strange. I could not find a common factor for it.
Voila.
Ams, I suggest you do what Madshi is asking. If the problem happen all the time it should be easy to track down. And I'm interessed in the results ...
C Ya.

Hello Madshi
I tried it, i changed the Expert in the windows registry, but i did not remove packages , because if the problem comes from these packages, then none of us can work without these packages, i agree with jeurk  that there are somthing strang, because many companies work on NT platform and they are using D3, with experts and Packages, and they did not complain from this problem..

Thank you Inthe
thank you for all...


Best Regards.
AMS...

I can also tell you that the problem was fone away
with windows 2000... without that fix...
CU