How do you test it? If AnchorDockingDsgn is installed, you can't switch to default destop. Please explain, what steps you made.
Since I Use win10 the release executable is preserve in the folder (as a nomal User I don't have write-rights in that directory)
So i close the Lazarus-win-AD, go to the Lazarus directory (in this case it's \Lazarus_rc\ (secondary Instalation) )
and start Lazarus.exe there
Switch back: Close Lazarus(release) and Start Lazarus with Startlazarus.exe (I've got a link vor that on the desktop)
Do I really have to explain how to Stop and Start Lazarus ?
[..] use only one Docked-Desktop
normaly I do. But somtimes you want to store a specific layout for a Project with two or more Editor-Windows ... Debug-Desktop, or just for other reasons I want to preserve the actual layout.
I don't understand what you mean with that.
The Desktop-Layout are stored in a xml-file. So when you find a Desktop file with A(Or other Unknown )-Layouts you just save the data separatly and restore it as it was when saving the file, or ask the User what to delete,
Or copy/rename the file to a extra place/name so AD( or whatever Component stored its Data there can retreive it from there (maybe also after asking the User). How do others feel about this ?
In the last time, I always work with installed AnchorDockingDsgn and Sparta_DockedFormEditor. But I don't work with Delphi form files. I don't have any problems here, how I use the IDE. Please create for any unknown issue, you found in your daily work, a bug report. Only if the bug is known and repeatable, there is a chance that someone can fix it.
One Example: Make a master-Form (an invisible TForm-descendant with some extra properties) then make a (visible) Child-Form descended from the Master-form. Close the Project
Open the Project again and see the result when looking at the Child-Form. To edit this you need the Standard editor, for this I need the Release-Version, or a Version without SDFE.