On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 14:10:46 +0100 Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 19/08/2012 12:58, Reinier Olislagers wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > The setup dialog that appears when you start Lazarus with e.g. the > > compiler set to a non-existent file and the options dialog cover the > > same settings and overlap a lot. > > > > Maybe it's a good idea to think about merging them into one for future > > Lazarus versions: > > > > The setup dialog, is meant to have only a very few settings. I do not > think we should display the full option dialog. +1 The purpose of the setup dialog is to check the most important environment options, to - warn the user that the installation might be incomplete/wrong - avoid starting the wrong IDE - combine several warnings in one dialog > By showing only selected settings, it is much easier for the user to see > what needs to be fixed. > > At the moment the only thing, that I think should still be added is the > language. +1 > So I do thing, they will need to stay 2 individual forms. > > So there are intentional differences, and they should be kept. I would even say, there should be more. The current setup dialog combines several messagedlg. There are some functions that checks many settings and may show a cascade of messagedlg (e.g. compiling, running, compiling the IDE). Maybe some of these messages can be combined too. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
