[Lazarus] Component palette reordering

[Juha Manninen]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 3:37 PM, FreeMan <freeman35 at delphiturkiye.com> wrote:
> I wrote, open IDE and new application is started. just one TFORM
> I think problem is, while writing in "environmentoptions.xml" just writing
> visible items.
>
>   <ComponentPaletteOptions>
>     <ComponentPages Count="21">
>       <Page1 Value="Standard">
>         <Components Count="3">

I guess you have 21 pages in total. They are all saved in the configuration.


> Delete this tag from xml, IDE is started and component palette is normal.
> Close IDE and restart, is normal. But No tag still in xml file.

Sounds good. The configuration only saves a difference between the
current layout and the default layout after you have changed something
in Environment -> Component Palette options.
~2 week ago the code may have saved configurations even if you did not
change anything but that is history now.


> - While IDE is open, just minimize and restore IDE from task bar, bingo
> components runaway :)

I cannot reproduce this one. Minimizing/restoring the IDE does not
trigger component palette changes anyhow.
The only reason I can think of is that you have a DataModule which
gets focus after restore.
DataModule does not change the palette configuration but it triggers a
dynamic filtering so that only components that can be inserted in
DataModule are visible.


> ok, Close IDE and reopen, components are there. xml has no tag still.
> - While component are there, open IDE options ->env. options. Component
> palette, "restore default" button is disable. everythink is normal.

"Restore defaults" is disabled because there are no changes compared
to defaults. See, the GUI is clever. :)


> here we go,  Make a Minimize and restore IDE, components gone, Open IDE
> options and component palette options, "restore default" buton is still
> disable. don't change anythink click ok. If check in
> "environmentoptions.xml" <ComponentPaletteOptions> tag, there isn't there.
> close IDE and check one more, xml is flashed or write while IDE closing but
> just visible item infos, so next open IDE can't see, more then 3 for
> standard tab
>
>       <Page1 Value="Standard">
>         <Components Count="3">

Do you mean the configuration file is written even you did not change
anything in configuration GUI.
That sounds impossible.
Do you perhaps have a mixed or corrupted source repository?
Please do:
 $ svn up
 $ svn diff
What does it say? If there are differences, please do:
 $ svn revert -R .
to get a clean source repo. Also do a clean build of Lazarus in any case.

Juha