The most popular Delphi error

[Sirber]

What is the most popular Delphi error?

[Tuning]

The most frequent error to me is missing ";".:scared: (...in languages that need it..)

[Sirber]

I always get acess violation :) Soon I'll love to violate access :D

[mmgrover]

My most often seen error is when I put a ;
before a else statement :-(


Like

if whatever then
do something; <- oops
else
something else

[esby]

I think the most annoying error,
when you don't know what is causing it,
is when you have a form
and you cleared without seeing it
the

{$R *.dfm}

line

That let you keep searching why your program does not compile anymore :p

esby

[Pyscrow]

For me,
The most annoying error is when I am saving code changes progressively into different directories, and get everything in a twist and find that several of the *.pas files I am editing are those included in an old directory, not the current one I am working in! A real nightmare when trying to preserve version history.

[DaveEL]

Originally posted by Pyscrow
For me,
The most annoying error is when I am saving code changes progressively into different directories, and get everything in a twist and find that several of the *.pas files I am editing are those included in an old directory, not the current one I am working in! A real nightmare when trying to preserve version history.

Thats what real version control systems are for.

Try http://borcvs.sourceforge.net/ (integrates with delphi) or http://www.tortoisecvs.org/ (just generally a good cvs front end and doesn't require a cvs server to be setup first not sure about that with the above).

DaveEL

[unmei]

i voted for access violation which might be the one i encounter in second place. My top problem is any sort of 'interface not supported' because my current project is heavily using XML and it often happens i feed a function a different node type than i intended. I relatively seldom get compile-time errors which is probably because pascal/delphi is my native language (i get LOTS of them in java and C tho :p)

recently i get delphi internal errors quite often. I don't know if thats because my install borked itself over time of because my project has a too big heap of crappy code for delphi to handle :p

[Pyscrow]

What do you use XML for? Have not found a useful thing to try it out in yet myself...

Have heard it is useful for database apps.

[unmei]

What do you use XML for?
for subtitles. USF the fromat i use also for internal operations is xml based. You find it in my sig including (dirty) source.

[Kaiousama]

I really hate Access Violation error, i'm experiencing them often in external API calling and TypeCasting.

[hellgauss]

I program in c and i often miss ";" at the end of the line.

The worst error i ever done is an 'array overflow', which caused an error in a completly different zone of the code....AAARGH :devil:

[LigH]

What I hate most is, when the IDE tells me it cannot auto-complete because of source errors; but when I complete the line, it compiles fine.

And there are some optimization bugs, e.g. I count from 0 to 7, and the counter variable starts at 7 and raises - in the watch list, but not in the program running behind...