Re: Lazarus on one window (aka SDI)
Hi Al: 2007/9/13, Al Boldi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You can probably find it on google, but I attached it here for convenience. This approach is very interesting and I adapted it to 0.9.23 and tested it this days. I didn't know a parent can be assigned to a whole form, and that avoids the need to put container panels in every form and to capture Show and BringToFront events. However, in 0.9.23 I'm not able to assign more than one form to another, so TStudio simply doesn't work. I have reported the bug, let's see. Greetings, -- Víctor R. Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - Todos estos momentos se perderán http://rvr.blogalia.com/ | como lágrimas en la lluvia _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: Lazarus on one window (aka SDI)
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Víctor R. Ruiz wrote: Hi: In lazarus-svn-r11993-sdi-2.diff.gz I have published some changes to yesterday code so the window docking is now optional (variable DockedIDE at main, I will replace this with a proper xml reading). Next step will be to add support to do a hot swapping. Great job !! Open source, you have to love it... :-) Michael.
Re: Lazarus on one window (aka SDI)
Hi Victor, Could you explain how you managed the MDI look? Where the editor (synedit) gets created? I use the Toolbar Editor add-on package which creates a panel above the editor tabs. After applying you patch is opens a blank editor window with the toolbar panel, but nothing else. Eventually I figured out that I need to resize the Main Form to see the editor window, but obviously the Editor Toolbar is now missing. :-( I guess I would have to modify the Toolbar Editor to create a panel in a different location depending on the SDI or MDI interface in use. I'll leave that for now, until your changes are actually in SVN. I just wanted a head start on where to look, to fix the issue. Regards, - Graeme - On 12/09/2007, Víctor R. Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: In lazarus-svn-r11993-sdi-2.diff.gz I have published some changes to yesterday code so the window docking is now optional (variable DockedIDE at main, I will replace this with a proper xml reading). Next step will be to add support to do a hot swapping. Greetings, _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: Lazarus on one window (aka SDI)
On 12/09/2007, Víctor R. Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In lazarus-svn-r11993-sdi-2.diff.gz I have published some changes to yesterday code so the window docking is now optional (variable DockedIDE at main, I will replace this with a proper xml reading). Next step will be to add support to do a hot swapping. Also using this latest patch under Linux (ide compiled with GTK1). I can't resize the messages window. There doesn't seem to be a Resizer component between the editor window and the messages window. Other than that - so far it looks pretty nice. I keep playing with it today and report any more issue if I find any. Regards, - Graeme - _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: Lazarus on one window (aka SDI)
On 12/09/2007, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other than that - so far it looks pretty nice. I keep playing with it today and report any more issue if I find any. Another one.. :) On opening Lazarus and a project everything is fine. As soon as I switch tabs in the editor, a black Source Editor window appears. A work-around is to leave it in the background and continue working, but it is always there. See attached screenshot. Regards, - Graeme - attachment: Screenshot1.jpg
Re: Lazarus on one window (aka SDI)
On 12/09/2007, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another one.. :) On opening Lazarus and a project everything is fine. As soon as I switch tabs in the editor, a black Source Editor window appears. A work-around is to leave it in the background and continue working, but it is always there. See attached screenshot. Oops! I meant blank Source Editor window. Graeme. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: Lazarus on one window (aka SDI)
That work-around isn't a work-around. Every time I use Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down Arrows the blank editor window jumps to the front. I reverted my Lazarus back to a SDI interface for now - sorry. Graeme. On 12/09/2007, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/09/2007, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another one.. :) On opening Lazarus and a project everything is fine. As soon as I switch tabs in the editor, a black Source Editor window appears. A work-around is to leave it in the background and continue working, but it is always there. See attached screenshot. Oops! I meant blank Source Editor window. Graeme. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: Lazarus on one window (aka SDI)
From what i understand this type of interface is called TDI and very popular nowdays, the old Laz/D7/Gimp was SDI and things like child windows in a bigger main window is MDI (like Photoshop). Newer versions of Delphi are wonderful because you can configure almost anything, i personally like the sliding options and reposition everything in a similar way D7 and Laz but stick them together, one thing Delphi has is that the form designer is also docked and you can easily switch from code to design mode and object inspector adjusts to that, also one can add tabs or sliding panels with the less used toolbars, D7 also had some docking options and better response when restoring the IDE, not having to repeatedly click on the taskbar is so much better, at least GNOME is very annoying when it comes to multiple windows grouped, it keeps changing the place in the group using the form title, making it even worse to work with. I think many people (including myself) use a second desktop for Lazarus, VMware, VNC and such :) Razvan _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: Lazarus on one window (aka SDI)
Hi: 2007/9/12, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I guess I would have to modify the Toolbar Editor to create a panel in a different location depending on the SDI or MDI interface in use. The editor is created as always, in Main (SourceEditor). I only modified its class, UnitEditor, to add the container panel for all widgets and the hosting panels (and splitters) for Object Inspector and Messages View. Currently, to get that working, add the toolbar to DockPanel (container) and not to Self. Greetings, -- Víctor R. Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - Todos estos momentos se perderán http://rvr.blogalia.com/ | como lágrimas en la lluvia _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: Lazarus on one window (aka SDI)
Hi: 2007/9/12, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On opening Lazarus and a project everything is fine. As soon as I switch tabs in the editor, a black Source Editor window appears. A work-around is to leave it in the background and continue working, but it is always there. Thanks for all your testing! That's a known issue. The lastest patch un-commented the calls to SourceEditor.ShowOnTop, to handle this in a straight-forward way... but haven't done it yet (the window should override the activation when its state is docked). Greetings, -- Víctor R. Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - Todos estos momentos se perderán http://rvr.blogalia.com/ | como lágrimas en la lluvia _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: Lazarus on one window (aka SDI)
Well, I guess the screenshot was too big (87KB), so here is the text only. Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi Victor, Could you explain how you managed the MDI look? Where the editor (synedit) gets created? I use the Toolbar Editor add-on package which creates a panel above the editor tabs. After applying you patch is opens a blank editor window with the toolbar panel, but nothing else. Eventually I figured out that I need to resize the Main Form to see the editor window, but obviously the Editor Toolbar is now missing. :-( I guess I would have to modify the Toolbar Editor to create a panel in a different location depending on the SDI or MDI interface in use. I'll leave that for now, until your changes are actually in SVN. I just wanted a head start on where to look, to fix the issue. I once posted A Studio IDE layout, which worked by re-parenting the ide windows inside a TStudio form. This meant that it did not require any changes to the original windows, which made it possible to easily switch between SDI and MDI. The reason it did not use docking was because docking wasn't working correctly. And as Mattias mentioned, once docking gets fixed, it should be easy to have a flexible IDE interface. For now, I have been using TStudio ever since. Attached is a screenshot. Thanks! -- Al _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: Lazarus on one window (aka SDI)
Hi: 2007/9/12, Al Boldi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I once posted A Studio IDE layout, which worked by re-parenting the ide windows inside a TStudio form. This meant that it did not require any changes to the original windows, which made it possible to easily switch between SDI and MDI. The reason it did not use docking was because docking wasn't working correctly. And as Mattias mentioned, once docking gets fixed, it should be easy to have a flexible IDE interface. I didn't know TStudio (I'm rather new to Lazarus), where I can find more info? Surely the solution is similar, I don't use real docks either -I didn't found info about how they worked. This hack also panels and re-parenting. Greetings, -- Víctor R. Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - Todos estos momentos se perderán http://rvr.blogalia.com/ | como lágrimas en la lluvia _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: Lazarus on one window (aka SDI)
Víctor R. Ruiz wrote:
Hi:
Hi
2007/9/12, Al Boldi [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I once posted A Studio IDE layout, which worked by re-parenting the
ide windows inside a TStudio form. This meant that it did not require
any changes to the original windows, which made it possible to easily
switch between SDI and MDI.
The reason it did not use docking was because docking wasn't working
correctly. And as Mattias mentioned, once docking gets fixed, it should
be easy to have a flexible IDE interface.
I didn't know TStudio (I'm rather new to Lazarus), where I can find
more info? Surely the solution is similar, I don't use real docks
either -I didn't found info about how they worked. This hack also
panels and re-parenting.
You can probably find it on google, but I attached it here for convenience.
Thanks!
--
Al
---BeginMessage---
Al Boldi wrote:
This form implements a Studio-style IDE layout in contrast to the current
VB-style. It works by hooking it into main.pp with something like this:
IDEloStyle.TStudio.Create(Self).Show;
Note, keep the following windows open before calling:
ProjectInspector
ObjectInspector
CodeExplorer
Messages
Many known bugs like:
First invocation of SourceEditor crashes. - Close SourceTab and reload.
SourceEditor codetips don't work.
Todo:
Stream layout state.
Allow link/unlink windows.
Allow window to tab capture.
This new version goes full screen with integrated component palette.
Call like this:
IDEloStyle2.TStudio.Create(Self).Show;
Your comments/improvements/fixes are most welcome.
Thanks!
--
Al
unit IDEloStyle2;
{$mode objfpc}{$H+}
interface
uses
Classes, SysUtils, LResources, Forms,
MainBar, MainBase, MsgView, ProjectInspector, CodeExplorer,
Controls, ExtCtrls, Menus;
type
{ TStudio }
TStudio = class(TForm)
Panel1: TPanel;
Panel2: TPanel;
Panel3: TPanel;
Panel4: TPanel;
Panel5: TPanel;
Panel6: TPanel;
Panel7: TPanel;
Panel8: TPanel;
Splitter1: TSplitter;
Splitter2: TSplitter;
Splitter3: TSplitter;
Splitter4: TSplitter;
procedure FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
private
{ private declarations }
public
{ public declarations }
end;
var
Studio: TStudio;
implementation
{ TStudio }
procedure TStudio.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
var mnu: TMainMenu;
begin
if Assigned(Studio) then begin
Studio.show;
abort;
end;
Studio:=self;
MainBase.ObjectInspector1.Parent:=panel3;
MainBase.ObjectInspector1.Align:=alClient;
CodeExplorer.CodeExplorerView.Parent:=panel4;
CodeExplorer.CodeExplorerView.Align:=alClient;
ProjectInspector.ProjInspector.Parent:=panel5;
ProjectInspector.ProjInspector.Align:=alClient;
MainBase.SourceNotebook.Parent:=panel6;
MainBase.SourceNotebook.Align:=alClient;
MsgView.MessagesView.Parent:=panel7;
MsgView.MessagesView.Align:=alClient;
mnu:=MainBar.MainIDEBar.Menu;
MainBar.MainIDEBar.Menu:=nil;
self.Menu:=mnu;
MainBar.MainIDEBar.Parent:=panel8;
MainBar.MainIDEBar.Align:=alClient;
end;
initialization
{$I idelostyle2.lrs}
end.
object Studio: TStudio
Caption = 'Studio'
ClientHeight = 476
ClientWidth = 718
OnCreate = FormCreate
PixelsPerInch = 75
WindowState = wsMaximized
HorzScrollBar.Page = 717
VertScrollBar.Page = 475
Left = 32
Height = 476
Top = 77
Width = 718
object Panel1: TPanel
Align = alRight
BevelOuter = bvNone
Caption = 'Panel1'
ClientHeight = 476
ClientWidth = 170
TabOrder = 0
Left = 548
Height = 476
Width = 170
object Panel4: TPanel
Align = alClient
BevelOuter = bvNone
Caption = 'Panel4'
ClientHeight = 277
ClientWidth = 170
TabOrder = 0
Height = 277
Width = 170
end
object Panel5: TPanel
Align = alBottom
BevelOuter = bvNone
Caption = 'Panel5'
ClientHeight = 194
ClientWidth = 170
TabOrder = 1
Height = 194
Top = 282
Width = 170
end
object Splitter3: TSplitter
Align = alBottom
Beveled = True
Cursor = crVSplit
Height = 5
Width = 170
ResizeAnchor = akBottom
Cursor = crVSplit
Height = 5
Top = 277
Width = 170
end
end
object Panel2: TPanel
Align = alClient
BevelOuter = bvNone
Caption = 'Panel2'
ClientHeight = 476
ClientWidth = 327
TabOrder = 1
Left = 216
Height = 476
Width = 327
object Panel6: TPanel
Align = alClient
BevelOuter = bvNone
Caption = 'Panel6'
ClientHeight = 361
ClientWidth = 327
TabOrder = 0
Height = 361
Top = 58
Width = 327
end
object Panel7: TPanel
Align = alBottom
BevelOuter = bvNone
Caption = 'Panel7'
ClientHeight = 52
ClientWidth = 327
TabOrder = 1
Height = 52
Top = 424
Width = 327
end
object Splitter4: TSplitter
Align = alBottom
Re: Lazarus on one window (aka SDI)
Hi: In lazarus-svn-r11993-sdi-2.diff.gz I have published some changes to yesterday code so the window docking is now optional (variable DockedIDE at main, I will replace this with a proper xml reading). Next step will be to add support to do a hot swapping. Greetings, -- Víctor R. Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - Todos estos momentos se perderán http://rvr.blogalia.com/ | como lágrimas en la lluvia _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
