[Lazarus] IDE layouts

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 22 May 2010, Mattias Gaertner wrote:

> On Sat, 22 May 2010 09:29:05 +0200
> Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Am 22.05.2010 06:15, schrieb Reimar Grabowski:
>>> On Fri, 21 May 2010 21:26:22 +0200
>>> Hans-Peter Diettrich<DrDiettrich1 at aol.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> B) With multiple editor windows, the layout includes the files, open in
>>>> an editor window.
>>>
>>> Can you explain why? IMHO layout and content should be separated.
>>>
>>> R.
>>
>> But the editor windows are part of the layout.
>>
>> Imagine you have a layout that has two editor windows open. Now you
>> switch to another layout that has only one editor window (now the open
>> files might get "merged"). If you now switch back to your previous
>> layout you might want to have all files open in their previous
>> corresponding editor windows (and the newly opened files in the default
>> editor) - at least I would want that. So you have to store the opened
>> files per editor window somewhere.
>
> Imagine further you opened some file in one window and you now
> switch to another view, for example when debugging ends (switching
> from debug layout to edit layout). If the open file list is stored
> with the layout then the new files are now gone. I would not like that.
>
> The open files, cursor positions, jump history and breakpoints are
> stored in the session info (.lps file). The window layouts for editing,
> debugging should be stored in the session too.
>
> Maybe you want multiple sessions for a project?

Delphi has that: named layouts ?

Michael.