Hello,

I was having this problem but I resolved it after much trial and error.

I have a tab on a window and I wanted each user object tabpage within the tab to refer to a windows function. I have several user object datawindows on each tabpage and I want them all to have the same data and properties so I use the window to keep them in synch.

To do that, each tab page declares and instance variable of that that window object. When I open the window, I set the instance variables for each tab page to "this", for example

tab_1.tabpage_1.i_parentwindow = this

tab_1.tabpage_2.i_parentwindow = this

......

The tabpages can refer to i_parentwindow to communicate with each other.

My problems started when I started doing this. I could not edit the source for any user object tab page and save it - and worse, the user object would get deleted no matter what I did, even if I declined to save it after getting the error. Sometimes I could and I thought I had it solved but the problem would always come back randomly.

Then I took out this instance variable and simply had the user objects refer to the window object rather than an instance variable. When I open the window, I open the Window object rather than declare an instance of it and open an instance. I can no longer open multiple instances of that window but I don't need to do that.

There is probably a more elegant way to accomplish what I want but this is now working well and without error.

Hi Everyone,

Intertech recently came across this issue on a client project that would not build in PB 2022 R3 without blowing up the IDE after building the PBDs.  PBC builds do work but the application is too large to test thoroughly.  This particular error was shown when pulling the code from Git and checking the "Regenerate" checkbox in the Connect to Workspace dialog.

I'm curious to know exactly what "C0176: Badly ordered TYPE and VARIABLE declarations." means and what the compiler is looking for.  Can someone from Appeon engineering please weigh in on this?  

For example, does this mean that the entire TYPE and VARIABLE sections are out of order, or just the elements within?  Is it that the methods are out of order or not implemented in the right order?

Some clarity on what the compiler is actually checking for would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance,

Don

This is how I partially solved my problem.

I have 2 tabpages B1 and B2, both inherited from tabpage object (userobject) A.

If I edit the source code of B1, I can successfully save. The same thing for B2 fails.
I then noticed that the "B1" also started to fail, once I introduced an instance variable !!

What I did:

- declare the needed instance variables for B2 in the ancestor A and save A.
- (normal) Edit B2 and delete the instance variables and save.
- (source) Edit B2 and there was still an empty section "type variables - end variable". I deleted that section completely and was now able to save.

Not completely resolved, but at least it won't bug me anymore any time I want to Edit the source code.

HIH

didn't this happen to you before?

https://community.appeon.com/index.php/qna/q-a/editsource-error

regards

Auch! I have this very same thing happening to one of my tabpage userobjects which inherits from another one. it's been bugging me for 5 years now.
Every time when I forget about it and edit the source code, I get the exact same error and the only way to get around it, is by physically copying an older version by dragging it from the old pbl to the new pbl in the library painter. Then do a getlatest from source control. (simply getting the latest version from source control won't fix the problem, you first have to copy an older version physically into the library. Exporting and importing won't work either).
Don't forget to do an Optimize of that library too.

I can edit the object and save it without problems, but when editing the source and doing a simply change like adding a space somewhere in a comment, it's screwed again.
The other day I tried to get rid of this error by re-creating the ancestor from scratch, copy the code from the failing object step by step. After each copy of the code, edit the source of the new object add a space, delete the space and try to save. It all went well for some time, until suddenly the error was back.

Since life is short I gave up on it, but you just reminded me that maybe it's a good thing to try again and try to figure out where it goes wrong.

Now that I have a little bit more time, I'll try again and if I find out anything worth mentioning I'll let you know.

regards