[Lazarus] New compiler options page "Additions and Overrides"

Mattias Gaertner nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de
Sat Jun 8 00:12:56 CEST 2013


On Fri, 07 Jun 2013 19:47:28 +0300
patspiper <patspiper at gmail.com> wrote:

>[...]
> >> At the same time,
> >> every option line in the additions page would have a debug/release/any
> >> dropdown list that indicates whether this option line is applied or not,
> >> based on the debug/release selector toolbar button. If the option is
> >> marked debug, it will be applied to the build mode (provided it is
> >> checked for that build mode) if the toolbar debug/release selector is
> >> set to debug. The same applies to release. Any means that it disregards
> >> the debug/release selector. In other words, the combination of the
> >> current checkboxes and the debug/release/any dropdown list dictate
> >> whether that option will be used or not.
> > IMO this is the opposite of intuitive.
> What's not intuitive in an 'applies to' column in the options grid?

You have two types of build modes. That's less intuitive than one type
of build modes.

Mattias




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