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Cannot edit hints/warnings in BPL project options

I took advantage of the (time limited) upgrade offer I received via email from Embarcadero and upgraded to Delphi XE7. I like it. Good versions like this appear ever 7 years :)

But I have a problem: I don't know how to silence some warnings. For example 'W1011 Text after final END'. The 'Project Options' box is different. All those editable values are gone. Instead I have 3 entries like 'Value from: Debug configuration - All platforms.'

Where I can configure the global "Debug configuration - All platforms" thing?

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Solution

  • Edit: Updated after the screenshot. Old answer below labeled 'General projects' since it's still useful in the general case, for EXEs, DLLs, etc.

    BPL projects in XE7 only (okay in XE6-, fixed in XE8+)

    Update: this bug has been marked as resolved in XE8.

    I see in your screenshot you have a BPL project open (btw, you're using the XE2 Graphics32 package in XE7 - better to use the dedicated XE7 one.)

    I can verify that BPLs do not show the list of warnings and hints the way other project types do. EXEs, DLLs, etc list them, as below. I think this is a bug: RSP-8980. It is a regression from XE6; XE6 shows the hints and warnings as expected but XE7 does not.

    Edit the DPROJ manually

    David Heffernan points out that these options are supposed to be in the project, even though the UI isn't letting you edit them. One way would be to create another project (eg a DLL), set up the options as you need, and edit the BPL's project file (.dproj) manually to include them, copying from the correctly set up other project.

    This is complicated - it's XML, you need to get all the named configurations exactly right, etc - but will mimic what the UI does for you.

    BPK file

    You can workaround this by specifying them in the .bpk file itself. You can see a number of project options are in the GR32 .bpk file:

    A new BPL project's BPK file

    The BPK is analogous to the DPR file, only for BPLs. To find this file, right-click the BPL project and click 'View Source'.

    If you add the line

    {$WARN GARBAGE OFF}

    and rebuild (not recompile, but build) the project, you will see all units which previously showed warning W1011 now do not.

    How do you know what a particular warning is called, when you have to refer to them by name not number? Look them up on this handy blog post.

    I have added two Quality bug reports:

    General projects

    A project has a number of targets (such as Windows 32bit Debug, vs OSX 32bit Release, etc) and setting can be set for each of those. In addition, these settings are inheritable, so you can set settings for all debug targets, all release targets, etc.

    In general, you should set a setting at the highest level possible, and override at the most specific level.

    With that as background, to change W1011 Text after final end open the Project Options and navigate to the Hints and Warnings section. In the 'Target' dropdown combo at the top, choose the highest-level target where you want to make the change (for example, in this screenshot I've chosen 'Debug configuration - all platforms' which means that Win32 Debug and Win64 Debug and any other platform debug will use this setting with the value specified here.)

    Expand the 'Output warnings' tree and ignore the dark red 'Value from Foo' nodes which are referring to the inherited values - it's impossible to use here and makes more sense for other settings. These are the ones that I think are confusing you, from your question. Instead, scroll down until you see 'Text after final end' (warnings are sorted alphabetically.)

    Project Options, with a specific warning selection

    Select it, and choose the option you're interested in.

    Key things to avoid confusion: