Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Martin schrieb:
Compiling Lazarus (SVN / Snapshot) with -dSynDualView allows you
to open a 2nd window for any open source file. The 2nd Window can be
edited, and all edits made in one window, are also done in the other
window (they edit the same source).
Very nice, have to try out immediately! :-)
I get an error: uemOpenAnotherView not defined, in sourceeditor.pp?
it is in ide\lazarusidestrconsts.pas
Maybe you need to make clean all? (or tick the checkbox)
=> All this is not likely to be fixed soon => the idea is to wait
what happens to IDE docking
Why wait? When we fix the details now, I know what to implement for
docking.
Well first, it is not wait only.
there are still bit's and pieces in SynEdit to be fixed. And
sourceEditor/Notebook must be adapted too. So it simply is work in
progress.
After that, it can be looked into.
See the MasterSite example for my current suggestion:
Every IDE window can become an elastic dock site, with added dock
panels at the left, right and/or bottom, by calling AddElasticSites().
My plan is to make the editor windows such dock sites, but also the
main bar can be configured in the same way. This is optional eye
candy, can be replaced by the next option:
All (other) dockable forms are wrapped into floating forms with a
DockManager, from which they can be docked together or into the
elastic sites of another window. Empty floating host sites (after
undocking their client) destroy themselves. Dockable forms are created
by TDockMaster.CreateDockable, and can be configured further by the
caller.
Please note that the MakeSite example is not yet finished, emptied
notebook do not yet disappear - this will be cured in the next update.
It would be nice to have any number of editor windows, creatable on
demand (your part).
Persistence of the layout has to be defined. All dock sites can be
enumerated, and can store their coordinates, layouts and content. The
restauration of an layout is just unclear, with regards to the
recreation of the docked forms. We'll have to find a solution for
multi-instance forms, like editor windows, and for re-creating the
docked forms by their name and instance number, instead of their ID.
persistent layout, was one of the things I thought of, when I said
"waiting".
It has to be seen how good window state/size/pos can be saved with the
current means (because there can be any amount of edit windows)
My current plan is to use the form name to specify the form type
(class name) to create, e.g. TMessageWindow for MessageWindow or
MessageWindow1 (see TDockMaster.CreateDockable). The instance number
can be removed from the form name for all single-instance forms, to
distinguish them from true multi-instance forms. This will prevent the
creation of new instances, when a single-instance form already has
been created. Every form must know whether it's single or multi
instance, and change its name accordingly when it's created.
Multi-instance forms can be connected by their instance number, e.g.
CodeExplorer2 will reflect the current file in SourceEditor2. The
layout configuration file will have to be modified, to contain the
form instance names instead of unique form IDs, with multiple instance
entries.
The anchor docking and its manager is no more required, and can be
replaced by the TEasyDockSite and TDockMaster classes. Or the
TDockMaster methods can be integrated into the existing layout manager.
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