[Lazarus] IDE doesn't start after build with lazbuild

[Roland Turcan]

Am Freitag, 29. August 2008 10:29 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > May applications, but mostly installations packages like
> > InstallShield use a Wizard style interface. Start application,
> > click Next, Next, Next, Finish. :-)
> >
> > How do you create such a Wizard interface?
> >
> >  * Is in a lot of forms, displayed over eachother?
> >  * Is it a tab type component, with the tabs set to invisible?
> >  * Does it use one Form and a bunch of Frames?
> >  * ???
> >
> > Anybody have some hints on this? How to recreate such an GUI
> > interface.
>
> At work, we routinely use a TPageControl with all tabs set to
> invisible. The TTabsheet pages are filled with TFrames (actually,
> there is always a TWizardFrame, and all TFrames descend from this) -
> to ensure the various steps are truly independent.
>
> It keeps it RAD, and lets the various tabs be developed
> independently. TWizardFrame has methods and properties such as
> 'NextButtonEnabled' 'PreviousButtonEnabled', 'NextButtonCaption' and
> so in, making the wizard itself pretty generic.

Unfortunately, this does not work with gtk1, at least it didn't a year 
ago when I ported my wizard app from D7 to lazarus. It was impossible 
to hide the tabs, and worse: I couldn't find a way to prevent selecting 
a page by clicking the tabs (i.e. user could circumvent the "next" 
button) ..

regards
 Burkhard