[Lazarus] Object Inspector/Favorites tab, base class and adding properties from code?
Hello all, about the Favorites tab in the Object Inspector, why do we need to select a base class for a property to add to Favorites? And why do we need to choose a base class also when removing a property from Favorites? Also, is there a way of declaring a property/event as Favorite in its declaration in the source code? Or yet, is there a file where Lazarus reads its Favorites properties/events from? Could it be edited manually? Thanks in advance! (Laz 1.2.4, i386-win32, FPC 2.6.4, win7-32bit) Bruno Henrique Reis -- (51) 8178-5760 -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Object Inspector/Favorites tab, base class and adding properties from code?
On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 10:13:31 -0300 Bruno HR bhrei...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello all, about the Favorites tab in the Object Inspector, why do we need to select a base class for a property to add to Favorites? Only properties of instances inheriting from the class are favorites. And why do we need to choose a base class also when removing a property from Favorites? These are excludes. Also, is there a way of declaring a property/event as Favorite in its declaration in the source code? Yes: DefaultOIFavoriteProperties.Add(TOIFavoriteProperty.Create(ABaseClass,APropertyName,true)); Mattias -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] Object Inspector
There is currently a spelling discrepancy which probably needs to be rectified in that the OI Favorites page is spelt in the US way, as is the popup context menu text that refers to it. Whereas the dialog caption and interior label of the Add to favourite properties dialog (and associated source code) all use the British spelling of favourite. I also wonder if the default setting whereby the OI statusbar is always shown is the best option. I have never found the OI statusbar gives essential information, but perhaps I have simply not paid attention to it at the right moment, or perhaps there are plans to expand its usefulness. It would be more helpful to beginners, I think, if the OI InfoBox were shown by default in preference to the statusbar. Although a statusbar provides a useful sizing grip, the OI can also be resized without it, and turning it off allows one more property to be displayed in the grid without the need to scroll. Howard -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Object Inspector
On 19/09/12 11:31, Howard Page-Clark wrote: Whereas the dialog caption and interior label of the Add to favourite properties dialog (and associated source code) all use the British spelling of favourite. It's a cross-language feature. The Lazarus project doesn't discriminate. ;-) Graeme. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Object Inspector
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:38:53 +0100 Graeme Geldenhuys gra...@geldenhuys.co.uk wrote: On 19/09/12 11:31, Howard Page-Clark wrote: Whereas the dialog caption and interior label of the Add to favourite properties dialog (and associated source code) all use the British spelling of favourite. It's a cross-language feature. The Lazarus project doesn't discriminate. ;-) ;) No, for consistency it should be American spelling. I fixed it. Mattias -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] Object inspector hints ?
Hi, The lazarus code editor shows tooltip hints about identifiers; It gets those from the sources or even fpdoc. Is there any reason why the object inspector would not be able to offer the same hints ? Properties and events are also just identifiers after all. Michael. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Object inspector hints ?
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:03:41 +0200 (CEST) Michael Van Canneyt mich...@freepascal.org wrote: Hi, The lazarus code editor shows tooltip hints about identifiers; It gets those from the sources or even fpdoc. Is there any reason why the object inspector would not be able to offer the same hints ? Properties and events are also just identifiers after all. Right click on OI: enable Show hints Mattias -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Object inspector hints ?
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:03:41 +0200 (CEST) Michael Van Canneyt mich...@freepascal.org wrote: Hi, The lazarus code editor shows tooltip hints about identifiers; It gets those from the sources or even fpdoc. Is there any reason why the object inspector would not be able to offer the same hints ? Properties and events are also just identifiers after all. Right click on OI: enable Show hints Unbelievable... How many years this gem remained hidden from me. You can learn everything there is to know about lazarus in a week, and yet after many years, it can still surprise you. ( (c) Gandalf ) Thanks. Michael. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Object inspector hints ?
On 30/4/12 9:23, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:03:41 +0200 (CEST) Michael Van Canneytmich...@freepascal.org wrote: Hi, The lazarus code editor shows tooltip hints about identifiers; It gets those from the sources or even fpdoc. Is there any reason why the object inspector would not be able to offer the same hints ? Properties and events are also just identifiers after all. Right click on OI: enable Show hints There is also the (optional) OI information box which displays limited documentation. However, it is often very limited. e.g. TControl.OnClick Event Handler for mouse click which hardly aids a programmer looking for more information, and in fact is hardly worth displaying at all. Would it be difficult to add parameter and parameter type information, and function return type such as codetools offers in the Editor? Howard -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Object inspector hints ?
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:50:30 +0100 Howard Page-Clark h...@talktalk.net wrote: On 30/4/12 9:23, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:03:41 +0200 (CEST) Michael Van Canneytmich...@freepascal.org wrote: Hi, The lazarus code editor shows tooltip hints about identifiers; It gets those from the sources or even fpdoc. Is there any reason why the object inspector would not be able to offer the same hints ? Properties and events are also just identifiers after all. Right click on OI: enable Show hints There is also the (optional) OI information box which displays limited documentation. However, it is often very limited. e.g. TControl.OnClick Event Handler for mouse click which hardly aids a programmer looking for more information, and in fact is hardly worth displaying at all. Would it be difficult to add parameter and parameter type information, and function return type such as codetools offers in the Editor? The OI and the source editor show the same hint. Since 0.9.31 the hint shows some more fpdoc content. For example the description. Since yesterday it shows the type of redefined properties like OnClick. That means it shows property OnClick: TNotifyEvent. It's a todo to show related information like parameters of TNotifyEvent. Mattias -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Object inspector hints ?
Howard Page-Clark schrieb: Right click on OI: enable Show hints There is also the (optional) OI information box which displays limited documentation. However, it is often very limited. e.g. TControl.OnClick Event Handler for mouse click which hardly aids a programmer looking for more information, and in fact is hardly worth displaying at all. Would it be difficult to add parameter and parameter type information, and function return type such as codetools offers in the Editor? What's the use of such additional information in OI? You can let the OI create the event handler for you, no need to bother with parameters here. DoDi -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Object inspector hints ?
On 30/4/12 11:54, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Howard Page-Clark schrieb: What's the use of such additional information in OI? You can let the OI create the event handler for you, no need to bother with parameters here. For people who use a stable release all the time, set up according to their established preferences, this is true. I prefer to work mainly with the cutting-edge. And working help for some reason is often the first casualty of a new installation. Since Lazarus does not yet install all help files on all platforms ready-to-run, I often find on upgrading or using a daily snapshot that help and hints have stopped working for me, and require quite a lot of downloads and file copying and setting of help parameters (as URLs, not usual directory locations) before the new help installation is rolling again. Unaccountably this process sometimes goes quickly and smoothly, and at other times takes far too long, and I have to refer to wiki articles and mail list archives to try to solve the problem. OTOH the OI already lists all published events nicely, without need to look up the sources. So it is quicker for me (if help is not yet working) to drop a component on a form, inspect some information in the OI as needed, and perhaps delete the component again if it is not actually needed. Obviously for classes that are not on the Component Palette this method is not applicable, but often it seems the quickest way to get to the information I need. Otherwise I quickly end up with loads of source files open in the Editor (which I prefer to avoid because it makes it harder to find the few files I am working on; and if ever I close a file, I nearly always seem to need it only a few moments later). Howard -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Object inspector hints ?
On 30 April 2012 09:23, Mattias Gaertner nc-gaert...@netcologne.de wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:03:41 +0200 (CEST) Michael Van Canneyt mich...@freepascal.org wrote: Hi, The lazarus code editor shows tooltip hints about identifiers; It gets those from the sources or even fpdoc. Is there any reason why the object inspector would not be able to offer the same hints ? Properties and events are also just identifiers after all. Right click on OI: enable Show hints When I do this, I don't get a menu? I think I am being stupid, could someone elberate? Thanks Richard -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Object Inspector off screen
Anyway, it appears lazarus has remembered my previous window settings and the object inspector window is off screen, I can’t see any way to bring it back. Never mind I found it in IDE options, sorry for wasting your time.-- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] Object Inspector odd behavior (ComboBox issue)
My setup: LCL=carbon (OS X), I build svn daily, and fpc is 2.5.1 from svn A couple of weeks ago, I noticed that *single*-clicking in the Object Inspector actually increments the value of any property displayed with ComboBoxes. That can't be the intended behavior, can it? And then, you can't re-click it to increment it again; you have to drop the list down and *double*-click on an item to select the new value. This seems really strange to me and counter-intuitive. I had to carefully go back through my entire project to make sure I haven't accidentally changed a value simply by single-clicking in the object inspector (several indeed had been changed). Every svn update, I rebuild hoping it's not going to do it anymore, but it still does. I actually hope this is a bug, because it's just really weird. Where would I look in the sources to change this behavior so that it only increments on double-click, not single-click? Related to TComboBox, the behavior on carbon (not sure about other platforms) is not consistent. If it's a read-only list, single-clicking on an item in the drop-down list selects it and the list goes back up. If it's not read-only, you must double-click on a list item to make the list go back up (proper behavior on OS X is for the item to be selected and the list go back up with just a single click). Again, where would I look in the sources to change this behavior? This one is really important for my project, because it goes against the Apple HI Guidelines and might cause my app to get rejected. -- John -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Object Inspector odd behavior (ComboBox issue)
Related to TComboBox, the behavior on carbon (not sure about other platforms) is not consistent. If it's a read-only list, single-clicking on an item in the drop-down list selects it and the list goes back up. If it's not read-only, you must double-click on a list item to make the list go back up (proper behavior on OS X is for the item to be selected and the list go back up with just a single click). Again, where would I look in the sources to change this behavior? This one is really important for my project, because it goes against the Apple HI Guidelines and might cause my app to get rejected. I'm afraid this is how Apple designed Carbon (intentionally i suspect to force everyone to use Cocoa). You can actually test by using Interface Builder. Create a window and place a combobox on it. Add some items to the combobox and run the simulation. You'll see that combobox is behaving in the same. This is possible to fix, but it required some additional efforts, and nobody ever wanted to fix Apple's bugs for them. This bug doesn't present in Cocoa combobox. So it will be working once Cocoa widgetset is mature enough, however it's still Alpha and almost unusable. thanks, Dmitry -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Object Inspector odd behavior (ComboBox issue)
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:07 PM, dmitry boyarintsev skalogryz.li...@gmail.com wrote: I'm afraid this is how Apple designed Carbon (intentionally i suspect to force everyone to use Cocoa). You can actually test by using Interface Builder. Create a window and place a combobox on it. Add some items to the combobox and run the simulation. You'll see that combobox is behaving in the same. This is possible to fix, but it required some additional efforts, and nobody ever wanted to fix Apple's bugs for them. This bug doesn't present in Cocoa combobox. So it will be working once Cocoa widgetset is mature enough, however it's still Alpha and almost unusable. Hmm, didn't know it was a Carbon combobox thing, since I've only every used Cocoa in the past, and it is definitely different. Ok, good enough. However, I'm still curious as to why on earth Object Inspector increments properties on *single*-click. That is just annoying the hell out of me. You can't even click to see the list of available properties without changing the value. I've tried delving into the source but can't locate where to fix this. -- John -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Object Inspector odd behavior (ComboBox issue)
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:14 PM, John Stoneham captnjamesk...@gmail.comwrote: However, I'm still curious as to why on earth Object Inspector increments properties on *single*-click. That is just annoying the hell out of me. You can't even click to see the list of available properties without changing the value. I've tried delving into the source but can't locate where to fix this. Alright, this is definitely a bug. I tried it on the 0.9.28.2 release and it definitely does not happen there. I can't recall when it started. I'm not sure if it affects other widgets sets. -- John -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Object Inspector odd behavior (ComboBox issue)
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:30 PM, John Stoneham captnjamesk...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:14 PM, John Stoneham captnjamesk...@gmail.comwrote: However, I'm still curious as to why on earth Object Inspector increments properties on *single*-click. That is just annoying the hell out of me. You can't even click to see the list of available properties without changing the value. I've tried delving into the source but can't locate where to fix this. Alright, this is definitely a bug. I tried it on the 0.9.28.2 release and it definitely does not happen there. I can't recall when it started. I'm not sure if it affects other widgets sets. Just tried Lazarus svn on Ubuntu and single-clicking on a property in the Object Inspector does *not* increment its value -- unlike the weird behavior in the Object Inspector on OS X. Someone who has more familiarity with the source than me will have to determine if it's because of a bug introduced in the carbon widgets sometime after 0.9.28.2, or if it's a bug in the IDE code itself which somehow only shows with the carbon widget set. -- John -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
[Lazarus] Object Inspector method find error
Hi all,just for one project I have the following error when I try to go into an event clicking on the object inspector:/home/antonio/freepascal/fpc/rtl/objpas/classes/classesh.inc(1557,55) Error: "end" for class/object not foundI'm using:- Lazarus 0.9.27 r20139M FPC 2.3.1 i386-linux-gtk 2 (beta)The only weird thing I have done with this demo project downloaded from the Net was to rename its .lpr name for lower case problems.ThanksAntonio-- Antonio Sanguigni alias slapshot--GioveLUG (Linux User Group) - http://www.giovelug.orgEdupup (Educational distro) - http://www.pieroni.biz/edupup signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] Object Inspector method find error
On Sat, 23 May 2009 12:34:36 +0200 (CEST) a.sangui...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, just for one project I have the following error when I try to go into an event clicking on the object inspector: /home/antonio/freepascal/fpc/rtl/objpas/classes/classesh.inc(1557,55) Error: end for class/object not found I'm using: - Lazarus 0.9.27 r20139M FPC 2.3.1 i386-linux-gtk 2 (beta) The only weird thing I have done with this demo project downloaded from the Net was to rename its .lpr name for lower case problems. Sorry my fault. Fixed in r20141. Mattias ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
