On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 01:35:54 +0100, Mattias Gaertner via lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
>On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 18:58:58 -0500 >wkitty42--- via lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > >> On 12/27/20 5:15 PM, Mattias Gaertner via lazarus wrote: >> > When the IDE starts, and there is no environmentoptions.xml file it >> > copies it from the secondary config directory. Maybe you are seeing >> > that? Where is this "secondary config dir" located? I did not know it exists... >> i think one of the main questions is "how does that file come up >> missing on a long time working installation in the first place?" >> especially since Laz is the only thing to touch it... > >Was the file missing, or only the desktop node? > Impossible to know since I do not look in the config dir every time before starting Lazarus... The file had changed its date from an earlier time (months ago) to the current time, and there was no sign of any custom desktop settings in it. The only thing I think is in common between these instances, which happened on both Windows and Linux, is that I have used the Tools/Options to increase the count for recent projects from the default 5 to 10. I always seem to get a project I want to open disappear from that list when it only holds 5 recent projects. I believe I did so on both Lazarus installations. So what does Lazarus do when one changes this value? Does it rewrite the environment file based on the default or what? I made a test to check this (since using the backup file brought back the 5 files limit): It seems like it rewrites the environment fiile by changing the 5 to 10 but also by changing the sequence of some xml nodes... But it does not visibly affect the way Lazarus looks when starting up again. -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden -- _______________________________________________ lazarus mailing list lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
