[Lazarus] dropdown button

[Andrea Mauri]

Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:

> Other simple things that could help is automatically hide windows when not
> needed. eg: When you compile your project, show the Messages window. If no
> compiler errors, auto hide the window. If errors occur, keep showing the
> window. If you wanted to see what hints or warnings occurred during
> compiling and after a successful compile, simply go "View -> Messages".

When docking has been made work, you can put the "views" into tabs on a 
notebook. I don't like too many automatisms, except for hiding the 
designer windows on Run.

>>From the other replies by Mattias, Flavio and Hans-Peter, it seems docking
> support in Lazarus IDE is still far into the future.

Not so far, I hope. Some windows can be docked already.

DoDi