I have Lazarus 2.0.2 from 2019-04-13 x86_64-win64-win32/win64 (from help/about) on a Windows 7 x64 laptop.

I have opened a project I worked on a few weeks ago in order to check some implementation detail, then left it sitting untouched for a few days. As far as I can recall there was no changes made in this session.

But now Lazarus shows that the FormMain unit (with the main form) has changed (an * before the name onthe tab and the save buttons enabled).

How can I find out what Lazarus thinks has changed????

I believe nothing was changed, but still Lazarus signals a change. I have scrolled the source and there is no indication in the left edge of any change.

I don't want to save an unknown change but if I just forgot what it was I also do not want to lose a bona-fide edit.
All files on disk are dated July 5 or older.

Maybe here:
View / IDE Internals / About IDE / Modified

Mattias

Thanks,
I went there and this is what the pane showed:

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Project.SomethingModified Data
Project.SomethingModified Session
SourceEditorManager.SomethingModified

Project units:
formmain.pas Modified SessionModified
formpasswd.pas SessionModified

Source Editor:
D:\Engineering\Projects\Subversion\Bosse\VideoPlayer\formmain.pas Component=False
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What does this mean?
THere is no reference to a source line...

I probably will make a svn commit before closing the Lazarus IDE and see what files get changed that are part of the svn project.

"Session" are things like bookmarks and cursor positions. You can probably ignore that.
"Component=false" means there is no designer form loaded "formmain.pas Modified" means something in formmain.pas was modified.

Check for any yellow line markers in the source editor indicating an edit.
Otherwise you may have changed the encoding, or you use some third party package that stores some data for this unit.

THere is no reference to a source line... I probably will make a svn commit before closing the Lazarus IDE and see what files get changed that are part of the svn project.

Good idea.

Mattias

You may not have made any changes in your source code. If you just open any saved form and move it (by dragging its title bar and droping elsewhere), the * will be added to the form's name tab, because you changed something: the form position. The same will happen if you move some non-visual components in the form.

You could try this: Go to your folder, select both .pas and .lfm files and copy/paste them. Then go back to Lazaurs, save the "changed" file and compare them using some merging tool like Winmerge.

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Em qui, 1 de ago de 2019 às 03:44, Bo Berglund via lazarus <

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It turns out that the formmain.lfm file had many changes, but it is not really viewable easily. I made a compare against the previous revision and lots of component size/position values had changed as well as the Lazarus version...

In the meantime I had gone from Lazarus 2.0.0 to 2.0.2 and switched from Lazarus 32 bit to 64 bit.
That might have changed something invisibly in the background...

Worked fine, I think I am OK now.