Convert Components

Convert Components

Opens ConvRulesEditor from the IDE on what you selected in the form designer. The editor shows the scope and the matching books; it never starts the run by itself.

Reaching it in the IDE

drag-lint > Convert Components

• Convert Selected Component(s)... -- the components selected on the form.
• Convert All of This Type on the Form... -- every instance on the form of the selected components' types. The editor works out which ones.
• Open Conversion Editor... -- the editor on the current unit with no request. The unit stays open.

What happens

1. The selection is read; the form itself never counts. With nothing selected you are told so.
2. ConvRulesEditor.exe must be beside the engine. On the first click of an IDE session it is asked --write-capabilities; a build that does not answer within 5 s is reported as older and nothing opens.
3. A modified unit is offered for saving. Cancel stops here: a unit whose buffer differs from disk is never converted.
4. The request is written to %LOCALAPPDATA%\drag-lint\convert-requests\ as convert-request/1; requests older than 7 days are removed. It stays there as the record of what was asked.
5. The unit closes, the editor opens with --convert-request, and you press Convert there.
6. When the editor exits the unit reopens on the designer. If the IDE closes first, the editor keeps running and nothing reopens.

One editor at a time: while one lives, another launch names the unit it is open for.

What it needs

An index of the active project. Saving another unit during a conversion can still start a reindex that collides with the editor's own; the run then reports it and you retry.

Related

ConvRulesEditor