[Lazarus] Find In Files

[Lee Jenkins]

Vannus schrieb:

> to handle screen sizes maybe layouts should allow 'absolute' (1280 
> pixels) or 'relative' (100%) positioning/sizing?

A nice idea.

It may lead to strange results, when restoring a layout from a 600x800
screen on a multi-monitor desktop, regardless of whether it's absolute
or relative. Another problem to be solved...

Also, who specifies which coordinates should be absolute, and which
should be relative? Do you want to write and use such an editor?
Whenever a layout is to be saved?


>     A) Every layout is stored in an file. How can the IDE find the most
>     appropriate layout file?
> 
> 
> project1.layout
> %user%/lazarus/layouts/default.layout
> %user%/lazarus/layouts/myother.layout
> %lazarus%/layouts/default.layout

Question is not *where* the layouts are, instead *what* the layouts are
for, i.e. *which* of these files to use.

Lazarus can be shipped with any number of layouts, and the user can pick
from them whatever he likes - this requires no special coding. Question
is about automatic selection, based on which criteria, and in which
situation.

> instead of just a generic default.layout, id also suggest:-
> vcl_app.layout
> simplecgi_app.layout
> console_app.layout

These could be loaded when a new project is created. I'm not sure
whether the project type is known later, when an existing project is
reopened.


>     B) With multiple editor windows, the layout includes the files, open
>     in an editor window. How to deal with the currently open files, when
>     a different layout is restored?
> 
> 
> maybe leave them in their own editor window, just open new ones for 
> restored layout.

It may be not a good idea to restore open files with a layout at all...

Nonetheless it's not a problem to remove that part from the code, and 
replace it by any other mechanism - we only should find a convenient 
solution for handling open files when switching between layouts. In the 
IDE, every editor file may be tagged with a "preferred" editor window 
number...

DoDi