[Lazarus] (Attn DoDi) multiply edit windows [Re: debug windows layout]

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Martin schrieb:

> How far are you with multiply edit windows?

Don't ask me, I'm not familiar with the current IDE interfaces and 
layout management :-(

AFAIR the ElasticSite demo demonstrates the available docking features, 
including persistence. What remains to do is the integration of docking 
and persistence into the IDE.

> Because I am (or will be) at 
> the same thing. In order for opening the same source in multiply views ( 
> $DEFINE SynDualView ), I need to look at multiply windows.

The SynDualView is nice, it only lacks the same set of features for 
every view.

> I am/was deferred by a lot of other things, so I can't tell exactly when 
> I will continue with it....

I'm also busy with many other things <sigh>. In the next step I'll add 
top-level docking to the EasyDockSite. From the user VP this is only a 
minor extension, but it does not fit nicely into the existing 
implementation.

Perhaps we should open an branch for a dockable IDE with full support of 
multiple editor windows. The interfaces deserve a lot of refactoring for 
this model, that should not affect the proper operation of the current 
Lazarus IDE. Also the LDockTree manager and TabView should be replaced 
by the new implementation.

DoDi