[Lazarus] New menu designer

[Howard]

On 17/01/2016 12:33, Péter Gábor wrote:
> I found some Format calls that seems to be unneded: the first parameter
> for them contains only formatting symbols and the second an array of
> resourcestrings.
>
> If no one else is currently working on the resourcestrings issue I will
> try to finish my patch and post it on mantis...
> This is more simpler than writing a lot of letter about what and how to
> fix to be translation friendly.
>
> Do you agree?
>
> 2016-01-15 23:19 keltezéssel, Howard írta:
>> On 14/01/2016 23:27, Maxim Ganetsky wrote:
>>> String "composing" is still present e. g. in "Insert from template"
>>> dialog ("Choose template to ..." groupbox caption) and in main menu
>>> creation form in "add menu item" fields captions.
>>>
>>> Also lismenueditororclickheadertosortbythatcolumn string looks
>>> suspicious from this POV.
>>>
>>> As for lismenueditormoveseparatedeleteinsertitems: you shouldn't try
>>> to align text with buttons this way. It won't work with other than
>>> Windows' fonts/font sizes (e.g. on Linux) and other languages. Better
>>> change this string to regular caption like "Menu Item actions".
>>>
>>> Also I noticed that e. g. "Insert from template" dialog is not
>>> resizable. It is better to have resizable dialogs in order to fit
>>> longer translation captions (e. g. combobox caption in this case).
>> I have submitted a patch (29411) which I hope addresses these issues,
>> except for the issue:
>> 'String "composing" is still present ... in main menu creation form in
>> "add menu item" fields captions'
>>
>> I am not clear about which string(s) you are identifying here. Can you
>> give a specific line number in the source that exemplifies the problem
>> you see?
>>
>> Howard

Sure, fine by me. Go ahead.

Howard