[Lazarus] New FPC 3.0 and Lazarus 1.4 Test Installer

[Kostas Michalopoulos]

Yeah i know about that feature of the form designer, but it doesn't work
with the object inspector (so, f.e, if i change align, glyph, style, font
or anything else that will reflect in the form designer, it wont show up).

TBH i also like how the window looks like a window since most docked form
designers either put some fake borders or they don't bother at all. The
best docked form designer i've seen is the one that Xojo (ex RealBasic)
uses, which tries to be as faithful to the native UI (under Linux it uses
the default GNOME style) and is always centered (another annoying thing
almost every single docked form designer is that if you maximize the IDE
window, the form is shown at the top left area which especially in a big
monitor like 1920x1080 or 2560x1440 can be very hard to edit).

BTW wasn't there some fork or something of Lazarus that added an embedded
form designer? Why wasn't that backported to Lazarus?

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Anthony Walter <sysrpl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Kostas,
>
> I agree, I'd also like to a docked form designer but that is likely
> something a long way off.
>
> In the meantime, I'm not sure if you are aware, but a great new feature
> was added to Lazarus for docked mode recently and I urge you to try it out.
> This feature brings the form designer to the top whenever you touch a
> component on the palette. Additionally, I've pinned the visual layout tree
> above the object inspector for times when you want to set properties of
> already placed components. And finally, the quickly F12 key toggles between
> code editor and the form if you need that. I honestly hope you give the new
> feature a bit of a try before make a final judgement.
>
> If after trying out this new feature you still prefer the floating
> Windows, it's simple to go back to the old layout.
>
> Simply select "Package -> Install/Uninstall Packages" from the main menu,
> click on "AnchorDockingDsgn" in the left column (the first item), click
> "Uninstall Selection", and finally click "Save and rebuild the IDE". The
> IDE will rebuild itself momentarily  and you will be back to the floating
> window layout.
>
> This is the same process, but with different package names, for adding or
> removing any IDE enhancements, as well as installing/uninstalling
> components.
>
> Regarding your concern of colors, you can set them to whatever you like.
> If you prefer the default Lazarus color scheme, right click in the editor
> and select "Options -> Colors", and switch to "Default" colors using the
> second button in the toolbar.
>
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