Error message opening CSS

[Archyboy]

Occasionally, I've been getting an error message when trying to open a previously created and modified CSS in Flare projects. The message does not tell me what to do but I can't open the CSS and I don't know what I did to cause this. The result is having to start a new project.

The error is:

Failed to open startup file: The DisplayIndex property of a DataGridViewColumn must be smaller than the number of columns.
Parameter name: DisplayIndex
Actual value was 178.

Can anyone suggest a fix for this? I've opened the CSS in Expression Web and cannot see anything irregular in the code.

Thanks.

[LTinker68]

Which "view" do you have the Stylesheet Editor set to? I've run into errors in the past switching between Advanced view and Simplified view after I manually added code to the stylesheet file. I can't remember exactly what type of code I was trying to add -- I want to say I was adding a complex selector with a wildcard in the middle (e.g., div * li instead of div ol li and div ul li). I don't think that was the error I was getting, but the workaround was to open the stylesheet file using Notepad and get rid of or change the offending code. It helped that Flare changed the * to \0042 or something weird like that so it was easy to find.

And it wasn't a problem if I left the Stylesheet Editor set to one view and didn't switch to the other view. I've reported that bug before, so hopefully it'll be fixed in the next release. In the meantime, if you open the stylesheet file outside of Flare and fix the code, then you should be able to open the project and the stylesheet.

[mneedles]

I know that this posting was a looooong time ago, but I had to say thank you! I was receiving this error and couldn't figure it out. I finally so this post and I too switched my css view and the error finally went away - I would have never thought to switch this as switching views (in my mind) shouldn't cause such a problem.

Thank you!!!