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RichB
Junior Member

United Kingdom
11 Posts

Posted - Apr 14 2005 :  09:21:57 AM  Show Profile
Hi, I'm running VA X 1298, on VS.NET.

Occasionally, whilst editing code- I'm suddenly getting the colouring and contents of either previous or the current line going crazy, see:



Unfortunately, I can't work out what the circumstances are that reproduce the problem at present - it's only happened 2-3 times.

When it happens, VS.NET still carries on, oblivious to the cause - closing the suggestion box doesn't fix it, and strangly enough, the weird random characters on the line actually change if you just leave VS.NET alone for a few seconds!

It also appeared that, on selecting the offending line that it was displaying the contents of the line which followed it in the source. However, after about 45 seconds of trying to work out what the cause was, it just appears to fix itself and go back to normality.

Not expecting miracles, just wondering if anyone had seen any similar oddness in their version of VAX in VS.NET?!

support
Whole Tomato Software

5566 Posts

Posted - Apr 14 2005 :  10:11:19 AM  Show Profile
Wacko!

We're curious. Does enhanced syntax coloring work for you?

We have not seen the abnomality but will watch for it. We appreciate you trying to isolate the circumstances in which it might happen.
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willdean
Tomato Guru

134 Posts

Posted - Apr 15 2005 :  07:09:27 AM  Show Profile
I've seen it, lots of times, but very infrequently, always on VS2003.

Like you say, it's relatively harmless, and tends to go away by itself.

No idea how to repro.
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RichB
Junior Member

United Kingdom
11 Posts

Posted - Apr 15 2005 :  07:54:59 AM  Show Profile
Enhanced syntax colouring works fine, although in the case in question it did appear to be whilst adding a new line which had not yet been successfully coloured....

I've enabled VAX logging now, so if it happens again, I'll let you know...
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WannabeeDeveloper
Tomato Guru

Germany
775 Posts

Posted - Apr 15 2005 :  08:38:26 AM  Show Profile
quote:
Originally posted by RichB

I've enabled VAX logging now, so if it happens again, I'll let you know...



Just a reminder:
The VAX-Log-Setting is not persistent (doesn't survive an IDE restart), so you have to enable it again after every start of the IDE.

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hensz
Senior Member

Germany
26 Posts

Posted - Apr 18 2005 :  04:46:17 AM  Show Profile
Hello RichB!

I've seen this effect and I could even reproduce it. I'm using Outline Saver, and this effect occurs if the outline file doesn't match to the current code, e.g. if you just copy the code and keep the old outline file. I could eliminate the problem by simply deleting the outline file.

CU, Hensz
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feline
Whole Tomato Software

United Kingdom
19024 Posts

Posted - Apr 18 2005 :  3:16:01 PM  Show Profile
are you using this outline saver

http://www.bigeneric.com/software/outlinesaver/index.php ?

by the sounds of it this plugin may be doing thing that the IDE does not know about. VA also does things that the IDE does not know about so it is possible that the two plugin's are clashing, which could cause problems.

zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
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Jacobi
Junior Member

23 Posts

Posted - Apr 24 2005 :  5:01:34 PM  Show Profile
I've gotten this a couple times as well, but no real solid way to reproduce it. Last time I got it I pasted a function name for the implementation I was writing. In all cases it does go away after a few seconds.
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jencas
New Member

4 Posts

Posted - Jun 15 2005 :  07:58:48 AM  Show Profile
I have sudden font corruptions with VS6 & VAX .1301 and sometimes moving the caret is extremely slow. After switching from VA View to some other property page, i.e. Class View, caret moving works with normal speed.
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feline
Whole Tomato Software

United Kingdom
19024 Posts

Posted - Jun 15 2005 :  3:42:32 PM  Show Profile
in the bottom half of VAView (the HCB) can you try right clicking and see if turning off "show current scope when typing" helps?

zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
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jencas
New Member

4 Posts

Posted - Nov 07 2005 :  06:39:14 AM  Show Profile
quote:
Originally posted by feline

in the bottom half of VAView (the HCB) can you try right clicking and see if turning off "show current scope when typing" helps?



O.K. I'll give it a try....

Thanks
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