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Perhaps renew your PureBasic.pref file

Hi mk-soft!

mk-soft wrote:...
Perhaps renew your PureBasic.pref file

That works, but all changes in in preferences are gone.
So the question is, which entry in the used prefs has to be
changed to get auto complete postion working.

The only difference in [AutoComplete] part of prefs is:

my old prefs wrote:Width =150
Height = 200

new (working) prefs wrote:Width =230
Height = 300

Changing these entries doesn't have any effect.

Which else entries have to be changed to get a working auto complete
with the old prefs file? I want to preserve all other settings.

Export the settings from the defective pref-file, then import them into your new pref-file.

mk-soft wrote:Export the settings from the defective pref-file, then import them into your new pref-file.

This didn't work.
Autocomplete-dropdown is on the right place now, but all other
settings are gone (language, theme, tools panel, folding, selected font, ...).

Until now I always copied *.prefs from previous versions of PB into the new
program folder. There was never a problem with this procedure.

There is the item export under settings.
First export the settings from the defective pref file.

Then remove the defective file and let Purebaic create a new one.
Then import the settings again.

Not all settings can be exported.

If it doesn't work like this, the file was already too badly damaged.

So the question still stands:
Which entry has to be changed to get the old prefs file to work again?

I just tested this:

I copied the "defective" prefs file from PB5.70LTS(x64) to PB5.62(x64).
Result: Autocomplete dropdown is showing up in PB5.70 just under the
actual line as it should.

The only difference in the prefs after closing PB is an extra entry
"DPIAware = 0" (and of course the version number).

What does this tell me?

This can only analyze Fred with the unchanged file.
It can also be that the invisible characters or control characters have crept in.

Just try to copy the contents of the file into a new one to keep all settings.

mk-soft wrote:...
It can also be that the invisible characters or control characters have crept in.
...

I didn't find any "suspect" character in hex mode of UEdit.

mk-soft wrote:...
Just try to copy the contents of the file into a new one to keep all settings.

That's what I already did.
In PB5.70LTS such prefs file shows autocomplete far right, prior to PB5.70 this same
prefs file works flawlessly.
It looks like - in my opinion - that since 5.70 something went wrong. As you remember,
the beta versions started with problems with autocomplete dropdown.

Could you post your faulty pref file somwhere so I can take a look ?

Fred wrote:Could you post your faulty pref file somwhere so I can take a look ?

See PM.