[Lazarus] Adding a Form to the (Lazarus) IDE

[Flávio Etrusco]

On Sun, 4 Apr 2010, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:

> Great, thank you.
>
> Maybe you can also have a look at the following bug:
> - Create main form as above.
> - Additionally Set docksite=true for the main form.
> Run program.
> - Drop panel outside main form. DockForm appears, panel is on it :-)
> - Now drop the panel back on the main form.
>
> -> The panel disappears.
>
> All properties I thought of check out OK: visible, parent (it is main form), 
> it's size.
> (size of the form).
>
> The same problem happens when you manually dock the panel back on the main 
> form:
> I do this with the following code in a button on the main form:
>
>  Panel1.ManualDock(Self,Self,alTop,true);
>
> I tried debugging it, but the error escapes me. All seems to be working as it 
> should,
> except that the control is not drawn on it's new location :/
>
> It's not a panel problem, I tried with some other controls as well.
> (tested on GTK2, latest Lazarus and FPC)

Follow-up, after tip from Hans-Peter Diettrich:

When building the LCL with -dOldAutoSize, the panel is shown.

Michael.