Egrid/FF Problem

[John Messingham]

Hi All,

I have installed EGrid pro today in the custom controls area of FF. I seem to have a problem. As I am typing or pasting code, the editor seems to freeze for a moment. I removed the EGrid folder from the custom control area and it is all ok again.

Has anyone else come accross this?

[Marc Van Cauwenberghe]

Hello John,

sorry this time I have no idea.
Installing egridpro is strait forward as I can remember.
Just made a subdir in the costumcontrols map with name SweetHeartGames and then an other subdir named egrid32.  Then I just copied dll, inc and xml file in there.

Is the editor behaving like this in a new project where you haven't added an egrid control but with the folder in place or after you added the control?

Marc

[John Messingham]

The problem occurs with the control in the folder even if it is not used in the project. As soon as I delete the folder the problem goes away.

[John Messingham]

Hi Marc,

I should have asked you what version of the grid are you using? I am using 3.15.7.0

[Marc Van Cauwenberghe]

John,

strange I just downloaded the new one and the dll said version 3.15.6.0.
I'm used to downloading all versions as soon as they come available so that is probably not the cause.
What version of Firefly are you using?

Marc

[John Messingham]

Hi Marc,

FireFly version 1.10
EGrid Version 3.15.07

Elias is testing from his end as well.

[Elias Montoya]

Edited... missunderstood the question. Ill check for that.

Elias

[John Messingham]

Elias,

Thanks for the update.

[Elias Montoya]

The Egrid32 XML file is huge... maybe Firefly is having a hard time looking
for words to autocomplete what you are typing... im not sure lets ask paul about this...

You say the IDE pauses even if you dont use Egrid32 in your forms, So, a way to test this is... Replace Egrid32PRO.dll with any other dummy DLL, and restart firefly. If the problem still exists, then it does not have anything to do with the EGRID32PRO.DLL, and most likely is Firefly having a hard time handling the XML definitions. Please let me know the results.


Elias

[John Messingham]

Elias and Paul,

1.- Does Firefly crash or something With egrid32?

No.

2.- Does firefly pause while in form design or only in code typing??

   Only in code typing.

3.- Does firefly pause even if you are not typing anything?

   When I go into the code editor FireFly pauses before allowing editing.

If I remove the EGrid folder from the custom control folder, the problem does not occur.

Hope this helps.

[Elias Montoya]

Yes. That confirms what i was guessing. as a final test, please try the
experiment i posted right before you posted, seems like our posts crossed.

Elias

[John Messingham]

If I replace the EGrid dll with another dll (I used the PBVList dll) the problem does not occur.

[Elias Montoya]

Maybe Firefly dont load the XML if it dont find the dll, try renaming the dummy dll (PBVLIST.DLL) as Egrid32pro.dll

I need to know what Firefly does with The dll when firefly opens... If no Egrid's are running then i have no idea what is going on in the back ground....

Elias

[Elias Montoya]

I almost have to go... usually at 6pm, if i dont reply anymore, dont think im dead hehehe, i will keep investigating, and i will return tomorrow.

Elias

[John Messingham]

I have tried Egrid( 3.15.07 , 3.08 ) with versions 1.06, 1.09, 1.10 of FireFly, I get the same problem all the way through.

Marc, if you see this can you let me know what version of EGrid/FF you are using, I am starting to think this is a problem only I get. I have tried this all out on XP(home), Win98se and 2000(server) and get the problem on all tests.

Cheers