X++ editor bug?

April 14, 2010 at 19:02
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Hi All!

There’s this little bug in the X++ editor that I find fairy annoying.
When you paste text at the beginning of a line, the first character get overwritten.

I demonstrate it in the next video:

Is it just me?

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  1. Vail

    on April 14, 2010 at 19:21

    Nope, not just you. The AX2009 editor does that and not only at the beginning of the method.
    When copy/pasting a block of code it will always delete a space from the line below the block copied….

    Annoying!!!

  2. Thomas

    on April 14, 2010 at 19:38

    Definitly not. Crappy bug that you simply get used to.

  3. Peterson

    on April 19, 2010 at 14:04

    Not only to you, happens to me too!

  4. Daniel

    on May 31, 2010 at 20:00

    I found another bug in Editor.

    When you select a word for finding and press Ctrl-F, it appears in the textbox on Find and Replace form. Then, if you close that form, select another word and try to find it pressing again Ctrl-F, the previous word appears again in the Find form.

    I overcame it doing some changes on SysEditorSearch form, editor() method:

    // Due to a system bug, the search string is obtained from currentline() method
    editorString = substr(_editor.currentLine(), _editor.selectionStartCol(), _editor.selectionEndCol() – _editor.selectionStartCol());
    if(!editorString)
    editorString = _editor.searchString();

    I have AX 2009 Rollup 4.
    I hope that can be helpful for you.

    Greetings!

  5. Daniel

    on May 31, 2010 at 20:02

    I’m sorry I forgot to ask

    Is it just me?

    Thanks!

  6. David

    on June 2, 2010 at 15:30

    The find issue also happens for me.

  7. Klaas Deforche

    on June 2, 2010 at 16:03

    Hi Daniel,

    Yes you are right, I have that bug to, nice find.

    Like you said, this solves the find issue:
    Rplace this: (form SysEditorSearch.editor() on line 16)

    editorString = _editor.searchString();

    with this:

    editorString = substr(_editor.currentLine(), _editor.selectionStartCol(), _editor.selectionEndCol() - _editor.selectionStartCol());
    if(!editorString)
    editorString = _editor.searchString();

    Nice find!

  8. Daniel

    on June 9, 2010 at 20:59

    Hi Klaas!

    Where developers can submit the issues that they could find?
    Is there some official page for submitting? I couldn’t find it.

    Thanks in advanced!

  9. Klaas Deforche

    on June 10, 2010 at 10:46

    Hi Daniel,

    I guess you can log them where you normally log your issues:

    For parters: PartnerSource or MS Premier Online
    For customers: CustomerSource

    You could also ask your contact at Microsoft.

    There will be a new X++ editor in AX60, so some bugs will be solved that way.

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