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Report #: 105375

Status: Open

Library Paths shown as grey (invalid) if use certain Enviroment Variables like

Project: Delphi

Build #: 16.0.4429.4693

Version: 16.4

Submitted By: Larry Hengen

Report Type: Basic functionality failure

Date Reported: 5/4/2012 11:57:12 AM

Severity: Serious / Highly visible problem

Last Updated: 5/4/2012 1:52:36 PM

Platform: All platforms

Internal Tracking #:

Resolution: Duplicate

Resolved in Build: : None

Duplicate of: 95815

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Description

It appears that any library paths in the Directories dialog are shown in grey if they contains the $(platform) environment variable. They are still accepted, but developers are led to believe they are invalid paths because the dialog indicates 'Grey items denote invalid path.'.

This is completely erroneous! The paths in fact are valid and the dialog should not display them as such!

In fact this appears to be happening for other environment variables such as $(BDS), $(BDSLIB), $(BDSUSER) but is most evident when using Rad Studio for X Platform development and leveraging $(Platform)\$(Config) fro output paths etc.

Steps to Reproduce:

Choose Tool - Options and in the dialog, click the Elipses button beside the library path. The directories dialog will appear showing valid paths as grey, indicating they are in fact invalid.

Workarounds

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Attachment

Directpries dialog showing invalid paths.zip

Comments

Uwe Schuster at 5/4/2012 1:53:29 PM -

The master report QC 95815 "Valid paths are marked as invalid" is a private report and is thatswhy not visible to everyone! So you may receive an error when trying to access that report.

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