Re: [lazarus] Editor issues

2007-09-11 Thread Søren Ager
Lepidosteus wrote: 2 - act weirds with tabs Disable Smart tabs Hilsen Søren _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at

Re: [lazarus] Editor issues

2007-09-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/09/2007, Lepidosteus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1 - lack some features For exemple, when typing begin, I've been used to delphi writing two new lines, end;, ans putting me on the middle line, just where I should type. I understand this is code templates or something like this, and there

Re: Icons run and pause for Lazarus

2007-09-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Thanks for the effort. My personal opinion (and I don't have any official say in what goes in Lazarus) is that it doesn't quite fit with the rest of the images. The style is different. If you look at the others (like in the File or Project menus) you will have noticed that we used pastel

[lazarus] FPC 2.2 article made it onto OSNews.com

2007-09-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Nicely done Joost! http://www4.osnews.com/story/18592/Cross-Platform_Development_with_Free_Pascal_2.2.0 ... or a shorter link: http://tinyurl.com/ywzyvr Regards, - Graeme - _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: [lazarus] Editor issues

2007-09-11 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:41:10 +0200 Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Save and loading files containing tabs got corrupted plus a few more. Can you give more details? Mattias _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lazarus] FPC 2.2 article made it onto OSNews.com

2007-09-11 Thread ik
On 9/11/07, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nicely done Joost! http://www4.osnews.com/story/18592/Cross-Platform_Development_with_Free_Pascal_2.2.0 ... or a shorter link: http://tinyurl.com/ywzyvr I have translated the article to Hebrew, if there are anyone that interested :)

Re: [lazarus] Editor issues

2007-09-11 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 05:48:03 +0200 Lepidosteus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I haven't done a lot of pascal code lately, and even less free pascal code using lazarus. I wanted to make changes in some old software I made for my own usage. After trying the delphi 2007 trial a couple of

Re: Icons run and pause for Lazarus

2007-09-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 10/09/2007, wile64 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have create images for Lazarus, made as you want ;) Below are some samples I think (again my opinion only) Lazarus is going with... After all these links are mentioned in the Help - About dialog.

Re: Icons run and pause for Lazarus

2007-09-11 Thread wile64
Thank you for your answer, this appear to you better? 2007/9/11, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 10/09/2007, wile64 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have create images for Lazarus, made as you want ;) Below are some samples I think (again my opinion only) Lazarus is going

Re: Icons run and pause for Lazarus

2007-09-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/09/2007, wile64 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for your answer, this appear to you better? Yes, that looks much better. :) Graeme. _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the

Re: Icons run and pause for Lazarus

2007-09-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/09/2007, wile64 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And for pause ! Perfect! And all we still need is a greyed out Pause for the toolbar. Regards, - Graeme - _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus on one window (aka SDI)

2007-09-11 Thread Marc Weustink
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 11/09/2007, Víctor R. Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I know some programmers prefer Lazarus IDE the way it is. However, on my development environments, with little desktop space, working with many windows is not a happy experience. I also read some threads on

Re: Icons run and pause for Lazarus

2007-09-11 Thread wile64
here! 2007/9/11, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 11/09/2007, wile64 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And for pause ! Perfect! And all we still need is a greyed out Pause for the toolbar. Regards, - Graeme - _ To

Re: Icons run and pause for Lazarus

2007-09-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
If there are no objections from anybody else, could Lazarus be updated with these images? Locations to change would be the Lazarus Toolbar and Run menu. Regards, - Graeme - On 11/09/2007, wile64 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: here!

Re: Icons run and pause for Lazarus

2007-09-11 Thread wile64
If you want I can create others with time of them? Laurent. My Web : http://wile64.neuf.fr/ French Forum : http://lazforum-fr.tuxfamily.org/index.php

Re: Icons run and pause for Lazarus

2007-09-11 Thread Paul Ishenin
Graeme Geldenhuys пишет: On 11/09/2007, wile64 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And for pause ! Perfect! And all we still need is a greyed out Pause for the toolbar. Please dont be so fast :) We have some plans for next development version of lazarus (0.9.25). Greyed and Highlighted icons will

Re: Icons run and pause for Lazarus

2007-09-11 Thread wile64
Please dont be so fast :) We have some plans for next development version of lazarus (0.9.25). Greyed and Highlighted icons will be automatically generated from normal images. This should prevent extra work for designers. it is a good idea… ;) -- Laurent.

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus on one window (aka SDI)

2007-09-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/09/2007, Marc Weustink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've the same layout in separate windows. I never can get used to delphi versions where they are placed in one window, since whin I want to edit As I mentioned, I have done the same as you and am very happy with separate windows. On the

Re: [lazarus] GTK Rotated text

2007-09-11 Thread Marc Weustink
Luis Rodrigues wrote: Hi, Over the last weekend I've implemented text rotate in GTK2. I've implemented it in Gtk2WidgetSet.ExtTextOut. Since there is no way to define that the font is rotated, TGtk2WidgetSet.CreateFontIndirectEx .. lfEscapement can only be used to place the angle somewhere to

Re: Icons run and pause for Lazarus

2007-09-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/09/2007, Paul Ishenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please dont be so fast :) We have some plans for next development version of lazarus (0.9.25). Greyed and Highlighted icons will be automatically generated from normal images. This should prevent extra work for designers. Brilliant idea!

Re: Icons run and pause for Lazarus

2007-09-11 Thread dhkblaszyk
If you want I can create others with time of them? Please do so :) Improved icons are always welcomed. Darius _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject archives at

[lazarus] External Tools and Messages window

2007-09-11 Thread Tiziano_mk
I'm trying to make a simple program that I want to put under the Tools menu, configured with the Tools|Configure custom tools... command. All works nicely, but the output of my tool does not appear in the Messages window. Note that the messages are there, since I can copy all and hidden

[lazarus] Elastic tabstops

2007-09-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
When developing in a large team, you have to make convention about the use of tab in source code. This article suggests a better solution: rather than saying that a tab character (a 'hard tab') will move the cursor until the cursor's position is a multiple of N characters, we should say that a tab

[lazarus] IDE, start once, open files

2007-09-11 Thread Mattias Gärtner
Is there already a cross platform component for applications to check if it is already running and if yes then pass some commands to the already application? For example clicking on files in the file browser should not open a second instance, but tell the already running instance to open the

Re: [lazarus] Editor issues

2007-09-11 Thread Mattias Gärtner
Zitat von Lepidosteus [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] But the editor seems to 1 - lack some features For exemple, when typing begin, I've been used to delphi writing two new lines, end;, ans putting me on the middle line, just where I should type. I understand this is code templates or something

Re: Elastic tabstops

2007-09-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
For people like me that don't know how to execute a *.jar files (smile) here is the syntax. java -jar ETNotepad.jar The more I played with that demo editor the more I liked the idea of implementing 'elastic tabstops' in Lazarus. I believe this will be a excellent addition to the editor and

Re: [lazarus] Editor issues

2007-09-11 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Mattias Gärtner wrote: Zitat von Lepidosteus [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] But the editor seems to 1 - lack some features For exemple, when typing begin, I've been used to delphi writing two new lines, end;, ans putting me on the middle line, just where I should

Re: [lazarus] Editor issues

2007-09-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/09/2007, Mattias Gärtner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a question, how it should work 'automatically': Does this mean, you can no longer write 'beginning' in Delphi? Or is the IDE waiting a little, so it is only invoked if you type begin and wait? I guess the last, but who wants to

Re: [lazarus] Editor issues

2007-09-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/09/2007, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Delphi 7 definitely doesn't do the described behaviour by default; Only if I press ctrl-j after the begin. (Nor would I want it to do this automatically) As far as I know that code template / code completion feature was

Re: [lazarus] Editor issues

2007-09-11 Thread dhkblaszyk
On 11/09/2007, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Delphi 7 definitely doesn't do the described behaviour by default; Only if I press ctrl-j after the begin. (Nor would I want it to do this automatically) As far as I know that code template / code completion feature was

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus on one window (aka SDI)

2007-09-11 Thread Johannes Nohl
I've the same layout in separate windows. I never can get used to delphi versions where they are placed in one window, since whin I want to edit As I mentioned, I have done the same as you and am very happy with separate windows. On the other hand it might be good to let the developer

RE: [lazarus] Editor issues

2007-09-11 Thread Crause, Christo \(JC\)
But the editor seems to 1 - lack some features For exemple, when typing begin, I've been used to delphi writing two new lines, end;, ans putting me on the middle line, just where I should type. I understand this is code templates or something like this, and there may even be a way

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus on one window (aka SDI)

2007-09-11 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Marc Weustink ha escrit: I've the same layout in separate windows. I never can get used to delphi versions where they are placed in one window, since whin I want to edit some properties in the object inspector, the whole is covering my form so I cannot see the visual imapact. This means

Re: [lazarus] IDE, start once, open files

2007-09-11 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Mattias Gärtner ha escrit: Is there already a cross platform component for applications to check if it is already running and if yes then pass some commands to the already application? For example clicking on files in the file browser should not open a second instance, but tell the

Re: [lazarus] unable to run Qt app

2007-09-11 Thread Giuliano Colla
Den Jean ha scritto: On Monday 10 September 2007 12:41:50 Giuliano Colla wrote: start. Which application is irrelevant, all I tested exhibit the same behavior. using binaries across Linux distributions is not done, so recompile binding and please report if this fixes it (feedback

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus on one window (aka SDI)

2007-09-11 Thread Víctor R. Ruiz
Hi: 2007/9/11, Luca Olivetti [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OTOH I find it really sweet to have the toolbar, the messages and the editor in the same window (I always seem to be chasing the messages and/or the toolbar when I move windows around or maximize the editor, ok, my fault but I'd still like to

Re: [lazarus] FPC 2.2 article made it onto OSNews.com

2007-09-11 Thread Giuliano Colla
ik ha scritto: On 9/11/07, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nicely done Joost! http://www4.osnews.com/story/18592/Cross-Platform_Development_with_Free_Pascal_2.2.0 ... or a shorter link: http://tinyurl.com/ywzyvr I have translated the article to Hebrew, if there are

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus on one window (aka SDI)

2007-09-11 Thread Mattias Gärtner
Zitat von Luca Olivetti [EMAIL PROTECTED]: En/na Marc Weustink ha escrit: I've the same layout in separate windows. I never can get used to delphi versions where they are placed in one window, since whin I want to edit some properties in the object inspector, the whole is covering my form

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus on one window (aka SDI)

2007-09-11 Thread Marc Weustink
Johannes Nohl wrote: I've the same layout in separate windows. I never can get used to delphi versions where they are placed in one window, since whin I want to edit As I mentioned, I have done the same as you and am very happy with separate windows. On the other hand it might be good to let

Re: [lazarus] Editor issues

2007-09-11 Thread Lepidosteus
To the various answers here and there: - about code templates: I got used to it in various editors (namely visual studio and eclipse), some people may not like it and don't want it to be on per default, but for someone coming from thse editors it definetly looks like something is missing. (it

RE: [lazarus] GTK Rotated text

2007-09-11 Thread Hess, Philip J
Luis, Great work! A good test of a widgetset's rotated text is the ported Orpheus rotated label control, TOvcRLbl. It works with Win32, Carbon and Qt, so having GTK2 would be wonderful! There's a link on the Lazarus CCR wiki, but it appears to be down at the moment. You can also get the source

[lazarus] last svn version for use with fpc 2.0.4

2007-09-11 Thread Marc Santhoff
Hi, as the subject says, what is the last compilable and flawlessly working svn version of lazarus for use with fpc 2.0.4? TIA, Marc _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the Subject

Re: [lazarus] IDE, start once, open files

2007-09-11 Thread Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
Luca Olivetti wrote: En/na Mattias Gärtner ha escrit: Is there already a cross platform component for applications to check if it is already running and if yes then pass some commands to the already application? For example clicking on files in the file browser should not open a second

[lazarus] Another icons for Lazarus

2007-09-11 Thread wile64
See the sujet ! Regard, -- Laurent. My Web : http://wile64.neuf.fr/ French Forum : http://lazforum-fr.tuxfamily.org/index.php attachment: menu_abort_build.pngattachment: menu_build_fast.pngattachment:

Re: [lazarus] Editor issues

2007-09-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/09/2007, Lepidosteus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - smart tabs help a bit but then indent are of 8 per default instead of 5, and I can't find a way to change that. This is too much. And there is still some strange behaviour sometimes after realoding a doc (I couldn't find a reproducable one

Re: [lazarus] Another icons for Lazarus

2007-09-11 Thread Joost van der Sluis
Well... if you have time, do you also allow requests? The icons of the sqldb-components aren't really beautiful. And the components in the fp-web-package (lazarus/components/fp-web) are non-existent... ;) Joost Op dinsdag 11-09-2007 om 16:43 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef wile64: See the sujet

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus on one window (aka SDI)

2007-09-11 Thread Víctor R. Ruiz
Hi: I've been talking with Jesus on the IRC about my next steps on this feature. Of course, a switch in the configuration between docked and undocked windows is a must. He suggested me to survey the main developers before doing more work. Right now the modified IDE works mostly as I wanted

Re: [lazarus] GTK Rotated text

2007-09-11 Thread Luis Rodrigues
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 11:38 +0200, Marc Weustink wrote: Luis Rodrigues wrote: Hi, Over the last weekend I've implemented text rotate in GTK2. I've implemented it in Gtk2WidgetSet.ExtTextOut. Since there is no way to define that the font is rotated, TGtk2WidgetSet.CreateFontIndirectEx

Re: [lazarus] IDE, start once, open files

2007-09-11 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Luiz Americo Pereira Camara ha escrit: It's working here both under win32 and linux (testraw and testcomponent programs). Using fpc 220, Ubuntu Feisty Faw, recent lazarus svn. I assure you that I could lauch various copies of my program. I used fpc 2.0.4, maybe that's the problem. I

Re: [lazarus] IDE, start once, open files

2007-09-11 Thread Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
Luca Olivetti wrote: En/na Luiz Americo Pereira Camara ha escrit: It's working here both under win32 and linux (testraw and testcomponent programs). Using fpc 220, Ubuntu Feisty Faw, recent lazarus svn. I assure you that I could lauch various copies of my program. I used fpc 2.0.4, maybe

Re: [lazarus] FPC 2.2 article made it onto OSNews.com

2007-09-11 Thread ik
On 9/11/07, Giuliano Colla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ik ha scritto: On 9/11/07, Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nicely done Joost! http://www4.osnews.com/story/18592/Cross-Platform_Development_with_Free_Pascal_2.2.0 ... or a shorter link: http://tinyurl.com/ywzyvr

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus on one window (aka SDI)

2007-09-11 Thread Den Jean
On Tuesday 11 September 2007 07:47:03 Víctor R. Ruiz wrote: on my development environments, with little desktop space, working with many windows is not a happy experience. I also read some threads I also prefer everything docked in one window (in Kylix), even on a 24. This way nothing get

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus on one window (aka SDI)

2007-09-11 Thread A.J. Venter
The single worst thing about the many windows IDE is this: I am coding, I need to look something up, I'm on my laptop so there isn't another screen, I open a browser. I want to go back to my code when I'm done - I have to click 8 or 10 things in the taskbar to get all the windows to the front.

Re: [lazarus] IDE, start once, open files

2007-09-11 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Luiz Americo Pereira Camara ha escrit: Luca Olivetti wrote: En/na Luiz Americo Pereira Camara ha escrit: It's working here both under win32 and linux (testraw and testcomponent programs). Using fpc 220, Ubuntu Feisty Faw, recent lazarus svn. I assure you that I could lauch various

Re: [lazarus] GTK Rotated text

2007-09-11 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 9/11/07, Luis Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to gtk.org bindings page only gtk.2.4 is supported in pascal. Well, look again =) I sent an e-mail months ago telling them to update their page, and they finally answered it today, saying it was updated, and it's indeed updated. I

Re: [lazarus] GTK Rotated text

2007-09-11 Thread Luis Rodrigues
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 20:36 +0200, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: I know that fpc gtk bindings cover at least up to 2.8 Where are they? I could find them defined in FPC/packages/extra/gtk2 or FPC/packages/extra/gtk1 so I thought they weren't and defined the functions I needed. Luís

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus on one window (aka SDI)

2007-09-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/09/2007, A.J. Venter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when I'm done - I have to click 8 or 10 things in the taskbar to get all the windows to the front. That is a very valid point. I haven't noticed it under Linux, because I use virtual desktops, but it is damn annoying when I switch to Windows.

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus on one window (aka SDI)

2007-09-11 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 11/09/2007, A.J. Venter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when I'm done - I have to click 8 or 10 things in the taskbar to get all the windows to the front. That is a very valid point. I haven't noticed it under Linux, because I use virtual

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus on one window (aka SDI)

2007-09-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 11/09/2007, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Each his preference. It would be best if lazarus offered you the choice instead of forcing you to use one model or the other. This would definitely be the best option, but then one question still remains. If Lazarus supports both MDI

[lazarus] Editor plugins (filters)

2007-09-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, I want to try and implement the 'elastic tabstops' in Lazarus. See the link below for more details on 'elastic tabstops'. I have a few questions before I start. 1. Can I extend the editor behavior via a Lazarus addon package? Or must I edit the underlying SynEdit component directly. A

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus on one window (aka SDI)

2007-09-11 Thread Luiz Americo Pereira Camara
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: It is SO bad that I have gotten in the habit of using a dedicated virtual desktop just for Lazarus. I would definitely be in favor of a single window design. Someone else that thinks like I do. I actually use 4 virtual desktops. One for Lazarus, Firefox, Mozilla

[lazarus] Compilation failure

2007-09-11 Thread Stephano
Compiling latest Lazarus SVN (FPC 2.2.0) fails (Lazarus.exe is generated) with: LazarusManager.pas(40,34) Fatal: Can't find unit LRemoteControl used by StartLazarus I can't locate the unit LRemoteControl anywhere. Where should it be? Stephano

Re: [lazarus] Lazarus on one window (aka SDI)

2007-09-11 Thread Mario R. Carro
On Tuesday 11 September 2007, Víctor R. Ruiz wrote: Hi: I know some programmers prefer Lazarus IDE the way it is. However, on my development environments, with little desktop space, working with many windows is not a happy experience. I also read some threads on the web forum requesting

Re: [lazarus] IDE, start once, open files

2007-09-11 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:29:38 -0300 Luiz Americo Pereira Camara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luca Olivetti wrote: En/na Mattias Gärtner ha escrit: Is there already a cross platform component for applications to check if it is already running and if yes then pass some commands to the already

Re: [lazarus] Compilation failure

2007-09-11 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:10:40 +0300 Stephano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Compiling latest Lazarus SVN (FPC 2.2.0) fails (Lazarus.exe is generated) with: LazarusManager.pas(40,34) Fatal: Can't find unit LRemoteControl used by StartLazarus I can't locate the unit LRemoteControl anywhere. Where

Re: [lazarus] Editor plugins (filters)

2007-09-11 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:35:46 +0200 Graeme Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to try and implement the 'elastic tabstops' in Lazarus. See the link below for more details on 'elastic tabstops'. I have a few questions before I start. 1. Can I extend the editor behavior via a

Re: [lazarus] Another icons for Lazarus

2007-09-11 Thread Павел Ишенин
wile64 пишет: See the sujet ! They are great (and cool acording to irc channel). But 3 things: 1. They should be in png (so previous xpm are not needed) 2. They must be 16*16 3. Toolbar images that have disabled state will not be changed before implementing of auto disabled drawing. So I will

Re: [lazarus] Editor issues

2007-09-11 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:04:50 +0200 (CEST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/09/2007, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Delphi 7 definitely doesn't do the described behaviour by default; Only if I press ctrl-j after the begin. (Nor would I want it to do this automatically)

Re: [lazarus] GTK Rotated text

2007-09-11 Thread Luis Rodrigues
Here is the patch to enable font rotation on gtk2. The angle used is the one defined in createfontindirect. Someone still needs to implement the necessary functions in the gtk bindings. Luis On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 18:39 +0100, Luis Rodrigues wrote: Hi, Over the last weekend I've implemented

Re: [lazarus] GTK Rotated text

2007-09-11 Thread Luis Rodrigues
Too much sleep made me send the wrong patch. Sorry. I don't know how the change in drawing function affects the rest of the lcl code, but it should work with no probs. Luis On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 04:47 +0100, Luis Rodrigues wrote: Here is the patch to enable font rotation on gtk2. The angle

Re: Lazarus on one window (aka SDI)

2007-09-11 Thread Víctor R. Ruiz
Hi: In lazarus-svn-r11993-sdi-2.diff.gz I have published some changes to yesterday code so the window docking is now optional (variable DockedIDE at main, I will replace this with a proper xml reading). Next step will be to add support to do a hot swapping. Greetings, -- Víctor R. Ruiz