Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer

On 26/12/2015 23:27, Juha Manninen wrote: Howard, as the author you also have voting power over the GUI. Besides GUI design is difficult, there is never a "right" solution that everybody would agree upon. Yes, dictatorship is far more efficient than democracy. Yet I feel some things should be

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer

On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Howard Page-Clark wrote: > Yes, dictatorship is far more efficient than democracy. True, but this is neither dictatorship nor democracy. This is more like meritocracy. :) >> There are other usability issues, too. > Namely...? Top level

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer

On 22.12.2015 23:42, Anthony Walter wrote: Stay on top is needed because the a menu designer is typically a separate non docking window (a dialog). For all users menu editing invariably consists of: 1. Creating a menu (or sub menu) item using the menu editor dialog 2. Then editing the menu

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.6RC1 on various platforms

Ok "although" instead of "Thought"! Ok wrong tread! Should be opened an issou in the BT? thanks for the huge amount of replies! 2015-12-26 10:00 GMT+01:00 Salvatore Coppola : > Thought not 1.6 specific ther'is an annoying bug with the IDE undo. If you > create an event

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.6RC1 on various platforms

On 27.12.2015 21:40, Salvatore Coppola wrote: Ok "although" instead of "Thought"! Ok wrong tread! Should be opened an issou in the BT? thanks for the huge amount of replies! I don't know if it is even possible and wanted to extend the source editor undo function with the ability to change the

Re: [Lazarus] Lazarus 1.6RC1 on various platforms

On 26.12.2015 10:00, Salvatore Coppola wrote: the IDE is give a error msg that didnt help to find the problem (unit section enlighted) I find the error message clear enough: and in the messages window you find unit1.pas(1,11) Error: identifier not found: Button1Click So there is no bug at

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer

On 27/12/2015 13:25, Ondrej Pokorny wrote: On 27.12.2015 14:21, Juha Manninen wrote: On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Ondrej Pokorny wrote: >Highlighting works fine on Windows. It doesn't work on Linux. I haven't >checked OSX. Strange. I have tested with GTK2 and QT on

[Lazarus] IDE extension and Debug Output window

Hello, What's the correct IDEIntf APIs to show "Debug Output" window as well as populate with some debugging output? thanks, Dmitry -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] ComponentPalette images size on HighDPI devices

On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 11:53 PM, Sandro Cumerlato < sandro.cumerl...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've found a simple way to improve ComponentPalette usability on HighDPI > touch devices. > ... > It is quite easy to enlarge buttons area (and improve usability expecially > on touch devices), because the

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer

On 27.12.2015 13:10, Juha Manninen wrote: Top level menuitems in a MainMenu can be selected but there is no indication about it. Other items get a blue rectancle. Highlighting works fine on Windows. It doesn't work on Linux. I haven't checked OSX. Ondrej --

Re: [Lazarus] ComponentPalette images size on HighDPI devices

On 27.12.2015 13:45, Juha Manninen wrote: However doing this for component palette + maybe IDE CoolBar is not enough. At least TToolButton in LCL should support it The correct place where to solve high-DPI issues is TControl. It isn't a simple issue and it has to be judged properly. I do

Re: [Lazarus] ComponentPalette images size on HighDPI devices

On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Ondrej Pokorny wrote: > The correct place where to solve high-DPI issues is TControl. How exactly? Juha -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] ComponentPalette images size on HighDPI devices

On 27.12.2015 14:03, Juha Manninen wrote: On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Ondrej Pokorny wrote: The correct place where to solve high-DPI issues is TControl. How exactly? I'll think of a concept in the next days and will try to address high-DPI issues in the LCL.

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer

On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Ondrej Pokorny wrote: > Highlighting works fine on Windows. It doesn't work on Linux. I haven't > checked OSX. Strange. I have tested with GTK2 and QT on Linux and the Windows version using Wine. They all behave identically in this respect.

Re: [Lazarus] New menu designer

On 27.12.2015 14:21, Juha Manninen wrote: On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Ondrej Pokorny wrote: >Highlighting works fine on Windows. It doesn't work on Linux. I haven't >checked OSX. Strange. I have tested with GTK2 and QT on Linux and the Windows version using Wine. They