[lazarus] Form options to not hide, and other stuff

[Shane Miller]

If you don't want new forms that appear to cover old ones then you'll have to code that manually.  There isn't anything in Lazarus to do that.

Linking forms together:  Are you referring to placing one forms controls onto another form so it's like docking?  If so, just set the controls parent on form2 to form1.

The error """ does not exist" and the dangling symlink error is caused by you not specifying the compiler.  DId you go into the optios in LAzarus and specify the location to your compiler?

When compiling with CVS, do a MAKE CLEAN ALL.  SOmetimes you manually need to remove all *.o and *.ppu files to get the command line version to work.  If old .o and .ppu files exist sometimes the commandline gives odd errors.

Hope this helps.
Shane


>>> johna at babel.apana.org.au 12/08/01 06:40PM >>>
I'm converting a program from Delphi to Lazarus for designing drains,
Drainmaker. No profit in this program !

I'd like to have new forms not cover the old ones, because I have a
separate form for the graphical work area. Does this involve the
"dock" stuff in the form, or how does it work ?

I also need to put in the code to link the different forms together. Is 
there a way of automating this ? In the demo, you have to do the various
options for the different elements of the bench form array, but in 
visual components that seems done already.

There's trouble using the visual lazarus environment. When I try to open
a new project, it crashes, and when I try a build all, it it puts out
: "error : a directory in "" does not exist or is a dangling symlink.
I can give more information if this is not an obvious beginner problem.

I also had problems compiling from the CVS ! Fortunately, I just ran 
make enough times, and each time around it had fewer errors. It was
disconcerting.

I'm not on the list, but if you could fill me in here, it would be 
appreciated.

Thanks,

-- 
John August

I may not have a floating point processor, but I can overclock the CPU.

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