[Lazarus] 0.9.28.3 r22906 - Form Designer is broken

Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.lists at gmail.com
Tue Dec 22 07:41:06 CET 2009


Hi,

I have another version of my improved Configure Build Lazarus dialog.
There are basically 2 ways to go with the GUI design here:
1. Build profile centric. You select the profile and maybe change it.
2. Build options centric. It lets you forget the profiles if you don't want to 
use them.

The feedback was that "super-users" don't want the profiles get into their 
way. My new design follows that (nro 2).

It is like the old advanced page but has a combobox for profiles:
  http://koti.phnet.fi/juhamann/Lazarus/BuildLaz2.jpg

and when you click the '...' button you get:
  http://koti.phnet.fi/juhamann/Lazarus/BuildLazProfiles.jpg

In the previous thread there were ideas also for the profile centric approach. 
Then editing the actual build options would require more mouse clicks.

My first version was also very functional. It allowed the user to use profiles 
or then not use them, and it was intuitive. But yes, it was crowded because 
everything was visible on the same dialog.
For repetition, this was the first version:

  http://koti.phnet.fi/juhamann/Lazarus/BuildLazSimple.jpg
  http://koti.phnet.fi/juhamann/Lazarus/BuildLazDetails.jpg

Regards,
Juha Manninen




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