hi

inconviniance is that when having lazarus open and working on project and then clicking via explorer on some file it will open another instance of lazarus and opening same project and open a file ....and then you get this warnings that file changed on disk that exe cannot bi built ..now on win 7 is easyly to overlook that you have same program opened twice ...but when your into coding your mind is not on such litle things and then you go ...what the hell!?.... i hope you get the picture.... its wery annoying ....theres no need to automaticly open last project ...i can survive if i have to make one click on open recent project...i hope there will be someone agreeing with me ...or ill just die :DD

regards
Eduard Filipas

I agree with Eduard that this is annoying and we should have the ability to NOT have the last project automatically loaded when Lazarus starts. Is that not a configuration choice?

Rich,

The ability to NOT have the last project automatically loaded when Lazarus starts does exist.

>Environment >Options

Environment,
Open last project on start checkbox.

That won't work if it's a file you have [dbl]clicked on ... Eduards case.

Not sure what would solve the problem Eduard has ... some want to be able to open additional IDEs.

I don't think the problem is solely in opening an additional IDE instance. Doing that would be OK if the project opened in the first instance is not touched when the second instance is started. The problem sounds like it is when the second instance opens the already-opened project.

If the "Open last project on start" is not checked, why does the IDE open the last project when you double click on a Pascal source file? Seems completely wrong to me.

Rich,

If the "Open last project on start" is not checked, why does the IDE open the last project when you double click on a Pascal source file? Seems completely wrong to me.

Ahhhh now I get it ... yea, I agree that's not good. I'd use a word [maybe several] other than "inconvenient" that's for sure :)

Eventually it should be tested if there is a running instance and tell it to open the file.
If there is no running instance:
Lazarus needs a project to save the meta data, compiler options, paths, session, etc. When a non project file is opened the IDE should ask what to do. Open the last project, create a new, locate the corresponding project, quit.

Mattias

S, Rich Saunders pi?e:

Thank you for mentioning enviroment option i had a check and because im working several days now on test project it has also been the last so it was also current ...and that makes problems....also uncheking that option in enviroment... dblclicking pas file via explorer forces new Lazarus to open but also opens dummy project and a file...i dont like that Lazarus cannot be in projectless state .... so now i changed default program to notepad for pas . one way of solving it ....