On 2015-11-23 13:06, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > The reason is simple: there was/is no other place where to put them.
Up to now, yes that is true. But then again a "designer form" could, and does, have behaviour different to that same form at runtime. > I don't use the docked designer. I most likely never will. Neither would I. :) My suggestion was simply a suggestion on what I think is an improvement over the existing behaviour [personal opinion obviously]. Opening that project in a non-docked designer, it could always arrange the non-visual components along the bottom, sides, along all edges etc. Many desktop environments in the past and present have such behaviour with icons, so I see no harm in applying them for non-docked form designers too. You could even go as far as making the icon arrangement user selectable - again, just like past and present desktop environments allow. > There are always more angles to a problem than you may have considered. The "docked form designer" is supposed to be an enhancement over the old one [opinions my differ] - my suggestion was just an extension of that enhancement. As with everything in Lazarus - making features option is ideal. ;-) Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus